articles & op-eds
“What You Say—and Don’t Say—about Abortion Matters”
Faith & Leadership (July 11, 2023)
“A Faith-Based Protest of Reproductive Violence”
Horizons Magazine (January/February 2023)
“Not All Christians Oppose Abortion”
Newsweek (June 8, 2023)
“Abolishing the Pro‑Life/
Pro-Choice Binary”
Conscience Magazine (July 26, 2022)
“Channeling Shock, Rage and Disbelief Post-Roe”
Faith & Leadership (July 7, 2022)
“Changing the Abortion Conversation from Justification to Justice”
Faith & Leadership (June 14, 2022)
“Abortion Access, Free Will and Bodily Integrity”
Faith & Leadership (May 10, 2022)
“Fetal Personhood: Another Big Lie From the Christian Right”
Common Dreams (January 28, 2022)
“Religious Women Have Abortions, Too. And Many Faiths Affirm Abortion Rights.”
NBC Think (January 21, 2022)
“I'm a Christian Minister Who's Had 2 Abortions. Here's How Faith Informed Those Decisions.”
USA Today (October 10, 2021)
“The Governor Was Right to Veto a Dangerous NC Abortion Bill”
Charlotte Observer (August 4, 2021)
“What Facebook Unwittingly Reveals in Its Ban of LIFESITENEWS for COVID Misinformation”
Religion Dispatches (May 7, 2021)
“Unplanned Seeks to Terrify, Adds Nothing to Our Discussion About Abortion”
Beacon Broadside (May 15, 2019)
“Must a Female God Mother?”
The Immanent Frame (May 6, 2019)
“Congress Needs to Remove Trump’s ‘Gag’ Rule”
Morning Consult (March 5, 2019)
“Americans Still Support Abortion Rights”
Tampa Bay Times (February 1, 2019)
“Trusting Women to Make Abortion Decisions is a Christian Norm”
WRAL News (July 28, 2018)
“The Threat of Obama”
The Telegraph (March 16, 2016)
“What Motherhood and Ecumenism Have in Common”
Unbound: The Intersections of Faith and Justice (October 28, 2015)
“Connecting the Dots Between Wild Violets, Fracking, and Homelessness”
PHP Post (summer 2015)
“Why Christians Fight About What the Bible Says”
Huffington Post (May 7, 2015)
“Biblical Marriage Is Not What You Think”
Huffington Post (April 30, 2015)
“NC Republican Legislators Reject Facts, Embrace Emotion”
Huffington Post (April 27, 2015)
“The Ecumenical Movement and Me”
The Christian Century (April 23, 2015)
“Are Scholar-Activists Welcome in the Academy?”
Feminist Studies in Religion (April 13, 2015)
“'You Can Hang 'Em From a Tree...'”
Huffington Post (March 18, 2015)
“Celebrating Feminism for International Women's Day”
Huffington Post (March 8, 2015)
“Fighting Poverty and Politics in North Carolina”
Huffington Post (February 20, 2015)
“Forgetting Lynching at Our Peril”
Huffington Post (February 12, 2015)
“Finding Justice in the ‘Giving Season’”
Huffington Post (December 12, 2014)
“Pernicious Moms Threaten Capitalism’”
Huffington Post (May 15, 2014)
