BOOKS

A Deeper South:
The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road
(2024)

The Road to Unforgetting:
Detours in the American South, 1997 - 2022
(2022)

Theology, Rhetoric, Manuduction:
Reading Scripture Together on the Road to God
(2006)

THE DETOURIST

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Almost Home
Los Angeles Review of Books (3 December 2020)

It Was A Place of Infamy
Southern Cultures (24 September 2020)

Confederate Delusions
The Christian Century (1 January 2020)

Monuments to Lies
on Flannery O’Connor v. the Lost Cause, The Christian Century (15 May 2019)

A Deeper South
Los Angeles Review of Books (10 March 2019)

The Two Jameses
The Bitter Southerner (14 June 2018)

Lynched but not Forgotten
on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, for The Christian Century (4 June 2018)

The Unforgotten: On Michael W. Twitty’s The Cooking Gene
The Millions (14 March 2018)

I wish I had the courage to ask my dad about his service in Vietnam
The Washington Post (10 November 2017)

How an ancient African saint helped me make sense of 9/11
The Washington Post (11 September 2017)

The Punishment Pass
The Bitter Southerner (17 August 2017)

I’d Like to Thank the Staff for Inviting Myself to Open Mic
Brevity Magazine blog (10 July 2017)

Tangled Up in Bob
Commonweal (2 June 2017)

Hi! You are About to be Rejected from our Quarterly
Brevity Magazine blog (5 April 2017)

How a Nation Lost its Mind
Los Angeles Review of Books (November 2016)

The Tree of Life and the Lamb of God
The Other Journal (July 2011)

Johnny of the Cross
First Things (December 2003)