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Articles and Book Chapters

“Relocating Barth’s Theology of Culture.” International Journal of Systematic Theology (2012).  DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2012.00626.x

“The Living Christ and The Walking Dead.”  In The Undead and Theology, ed. K. Paffenroth and J. Morehead. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock. (forthcoming, 2012).

“Karl Barth – Comic Warrior.”  Word and World 32, no. 2 (Spring 2012).

“Zombie Sightings.” Sightings, October 27, 2011. 

“‘Too Dogmatic for Words?’ Karl Barth's Comic Theology in Dialogue with Craig Ferguson.”  The Religion & Culture Web Forum, Martin Marty Center (February 2011).

Encyclopedia Entries

“Hank Williams.” InThe Encyclopedia of Music and American Culture, edited by J. Edmondson.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO (forthcoming, 2013).

"Burial in Literature." In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol. 4, edited by Hans-Josef Klauck et al. Berlin: De Gruyter (in press, March 2012).

"Tower of Babel in Film." In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol. 3, edited by Hans-Josef Klauck et al. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011: 253-254.

"Baptism in Film." In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol. 3, edited by Hans-Josef Klauck et al. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011: 470-472.

Book Reviews

Commanding Grace, ed. D. Migliore, Karl Barth Society Newsletter, 43 (Fall 2011): 5-8.

Book Notes, Religious Studies Review

Thinking in Tongues, by J.K.A. Smith, RSR, 37.3 (Fall 2011): 198.

Shaping Theology,by D. Ford,RSR, 36.1 (Spring 2010): 59.

Not Every Spirit,by C. Morse,RSR, 36.1 (Spring 2010): 63.

The Devil Reads Derrida,by J.K.A. Smith,RSR, 36.1 (Spring 2010): 66.

Other Reviews

Louie (written and directed by Louis C.K.), in Christianity Today (forthcoming, July 2012).

Work in Progress

Karl Barth and a Theology of Popular Culture (book manuscript)

AAR-SBL Annual Meeting

“Serious Questions about ‘True Words’ in Culture,” Karl Barth Society of North America, San Francisco, 2011.

“Plath, Hesse, and Tillich: Toward an Ontology of Suicide,” Arts, Literature, and Religion/Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture, San Antonio, 2004. 

“Wide Awake: Social Justice and the Desert Fathers in U2’s Bad,” Religion and Popular Culture Group, Atlanta, 2003.

Other Conference and Workshop Presentations

“Affirmation or Abomination? Popular Entertainment and its Role in a ‘Barthian Pneumatology of Culture’,” The University of Chicago Theology Workshop, 2011.

“Prayer, Pathos, and Poetry in the Work of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Marc Chagall,” University of Iowa Religion and the Arts Conference, 2004.

“Drinking to the Dregs: Plath, Hesse and an Ontology of Self Murder,” University of Iowa, Jakobsen Forum, 2004. 

“Theology of a Homicide: Life on the Street,” AAR Regional Meeting, St. Paul, 2003.