Academic publications are for everyone, but what you’ll find here are pieces I wrote or edited with researchers and professors in mind as my audience. This means the language will be more specialized, I assume readers already have a basic understanding of the concepts I’m discussing, and my intent is to push for depth.
Academic
JOURNAL ARTICLES
The Could-Have-Been Lives of Political Theology: An Ode to Miscarried Knowings
Political Theology (March 20, 2024)
Sexual Violence: Christian Theological Legacies and Responsibilities
Religion Compass e12337 (2019)
Testimony & Witness as Liberative Praxis: Authority Refigured
The Other Journal 30 (2019)
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Theodicy, Trauma and Divine Love
The Other Journal 25 (2015): 100-105
BOOK CHAPTERS
A Survivor-Centered Take on the State of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis Today, pages 39-50 in:
Accountability, Healing, and Trust: Interdisciplinary Reflections for Ministry in the Midst of the Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis, edited by Kimberly Hope Belcher and David A. Clairmont. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2025.
When Survivors Come Forward: Analyzing Patterns of Progressive Institutional Response and Working Toward Transformative Interventions, pages 379-403 in:
Sexual Violence in Church Contexts: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Mathias Wirth. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
Bearing Witness to Jesus, Resurrected Survivor of Sexual Violence, pages 151-166 in:
Liberating the Politics of Jesus, edited by Darryl W. Stephens, 151-166. London: T&T Clark, 2020.
Belief: A Practice of Resistance to the Alchemy of Reality into Incoherence, pages 43-62 in
Feminist Trauma Theologies: Body, Scripture, and Church in Critical Perspective, edited by Karen O’Donnell and Katie Cross, 43-62. London: SCM Press, 2020.
Victimization via Ritualization: Christian Communion and Systems of Sexualized Violence, pages 225-252 in:
Trauma and Lived Religion: Transcending the Ordinary, edited by R. Ruard Ganzevoort and Srdjan Sremac, 225-252. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.
Trauma and Theology: Prospects and Limits in Light of the Cross, pages 256-282 in:
Trauma and Transcendence Suffering and the Limits of Theory, edited by Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto, 256-82. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018.
PUBLISHED ONLINE
Editor for the Symposium on Political Theology and Sexual Violence
published by the Political Theology Network, October-November 2018.
Kavanaugh, Ronell, and Political Theology’s Prospects for Making a Difference in Sexual Violence Today
Political Theology Network, October 22, 2018.
Not Making Sense: Why Stanley Hauerwas's Response to Yoder's Sexual Abuse Misses the Mark
ABC Religion & Ethics, November 30, 2017
Public
These are pieces I’ve written (solo or in partnership) with a public audience in mind. They’re meant to be accessible and useful for anyone with general interest in the topics. They don’t go quite as deep as a piece written for an academic audience.
Show Strength: How to Respond When Worship Materials are Implicated in Abuse
Why the Betrayal of Bill Cosby, Eric Schneiderman, and Other Influential Men is Deeper than You Think
Ritual
Here, you’ll find rituals and liturgies I’ve written or edited (solo or in partnership) for use in specific communities. Some are accompanied by written explanation. Some are not. The key is that these are words that can be practiced.
The Lord’s Supper: A Ritual of Harm or Healing?
Do You See This Woman? Undoing Patriarchy and Moving Toward Right Relationships