published reviews

Dailiness, Essays on Poetry by Mark Jarman, The Christian Century, December 2020

The Mystery of It All by Paul Mariani, The Christian Century, December 2020

How A Poem Moves by Adam Sol, The Christian Century, April 2020

The Best American Poetry 2019, The Christian Century, April 2020

Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr, The Christian Century, September 2019

A Light So Lovely by Sarah Arthur, The Christian Century June 2019

Silence in an Age of Noise by Erling Kagge, The Christian Century, August 2018

Ali: A Life, by Jonathan Eig, The Christian Century, March 2018

The Whole Harmonium. The Life of Wallace Stevens, by Paul Mariani, The Christian Century, April, 2017

Forever Words, by Johnny Cash, The Christian Century, March 2017

Jesus’ Abba, The God Who Has Not Failed, The Christian Century, June 2016

Our Only World, Ten Essays by Wendell Berry, The Christian Century, Bookmarks 2015

The Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann, Volume 2, The Christian Century, BookMarks, June 2015

Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Nina Sankovitch in The Christian Century May 2015

Book of Hours, by Kevin Young in The Christian Century April 2014

Tikkun Olam  To Mend the World  A Confluence of Theology and the Arts, edited by Jason A. Garoncy, Image Update, March 2014

Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry, Edited by Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson, in The Christian Century December, 2013

R. S. Thomas Uncollected Poems, edited by Tony Brown and Jason Walford Davies, in The Christian Century October 30, 2013

Benediction by Kent Haruf, The Christian Century, May 2013

A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver,  Image Update, March 2013

Pity the Beautiful by Dana Gioia in The Christian Century 2013

What is a Palestinian State Worth? by Sari Nusseibeh in the  Harvard Divinity Bulletin 2012

The Best of It by Kay Ryan in the Anglican Theological Review 2011

Judas, A Biography in the Anglican Theological Review 2010

Thousands of Broadways by Robert Pinsky in The Christian Century 2010

Lights on a Ground of Darkness by Ted Kooser in The Christian Century 2010

Literary Genius, 25 Classic Writers Who Define English and American Literature edited by Joseph Epstein in The Christian Century 2009

Promised Land by Jay Parini in The Christian Century 2009

Special Orders by Edward Hirsch in The Christian Century 2008

Native Guard by Natasha Tretheway in The Christian Century 2008

The Notebooks of Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen in Christianity and Literature 2007

The Selected Poems of W.H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson in The Christian Century

Home Ground, Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez in The Christian Century

Overlord: Poems by Jorie Graham in Harvard Divinity Bulletin 2006

Christians and a Land Called Holy by Charles P. Lutz and Robert O Smith in Trinity Seminary Review

Questions for Ecclesiastes by Mark Jarman in The Anglican Theological Review

Canaan by Geoffrey Hill in Image 1999

The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill in Image 1999