Articles:
“Hints of Redemption,” review article (Ghost Pain, by Sydney Lea, and Deaths and Transfigurations, by Paul Mariani,) The Christian Century 123, no. 4 (February 21, 2006): 38-42.
“Vocation Goes to the Movies,” Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics (2004):77-83.
“Long Live the Queen,” Books and Culture 9, No. 3 (May/June 2003): 23-24.
“Absalom! Absalom!” and “Twilight” in Reading for Life, ed. Jeffry Davis, Leland Ryken, Thomas Martin (Xlibris, 2001): 34-35.
"Rogier Van der Weyden's Annunciation," Christianity and the Arts 8, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 20.
“Popular Reading and the Failure to Confront Suffering,” Stauros Notebook 19, no.3 (Autumn, 2000): 7-8.
Four articles on “The Lesson and the Arts,” Lectionary Homiletics VII, no. 9 (August, 1996):
5-6, 13-14, 20-21, 28.
“Political Play and Theological Uncertainty in the Anniversaries,” The John Donne Journal 13, nos.1-2 (1994): 29-49.
“Crimes and Misdemeanors,” The Christian Century 113, No. 17 (May 15, 1996): 550-551.
Four articles on “The Lesson and the Arts,” Lectionary Homiletics VI, no.12, (Nov., 1995): 3-4, 13-14, 21-22, 28-29.
“Rereading John Donne: The Art of Trompe-l’oeil,” The Cresset LVII, no. 7 (May ,1994): 4-9.
"Rilke and Rodin: The Dancer and the Dance," Der Blätter Rilke-Gesellschaft, accepted for publication.
"Robert Frost: The Dilemma of Marriage," Durham University Journal LXXXIV no. 1, New Series LIII, no. 1 (January, 1992): 79-90.
Five articles on "The Lesson and the Arts," Lectionary Homiletics II, no. 1 (Dec. 1990):
3-4, 11-12, 18, 24-25, 36-37.
"Flannery O'Connor's Letters: 'The Meaning is in You,'" The Christian Century 104, no. 39 (December 23-30, 1987): 1172-1176.
"From Symmetry to Paradox in the Poetry of Antonio Machado," Hispanófila, no. 90 (Spring 1987): 9-20.
"Harmony in Donne's 'La Corona' and 'Upon the Translation of the Psalms,'" The John Donne Journal 3, no. 2 (Winter 1984): 141-156.
"Donne's Hatched Soul," The Review of English Studies, New Series XXXIII (August 1982): 296-298.
"The Benedictbeuren Ludus de Nativitate: Journey to Fulfillment," Christianity and Literature, Spring, 1979: 13-30.
"Milton's Eve: The Harlot and the Bride," The Cresset XL, no. 5 (Mar 1977): 8-11.
Chapters in Books:
“Faith and Imagination.” In Should God Get Tenure?: Essays on Religion and Higher Education, ed. David Gill, 160-170 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997).
“A Homily.” In The Nature of Confession: Evangelicals and Postliberals in Conversation, ed. Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Okholm, 241-245 (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1996).
Foreword to A Wreck on the Way to Damascus: Innocence, Guilt, and Conversion in the Work of Flannery O'Connor, by Brian Abel Ragen (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1989).
General Essays:
“Incarnational Speech” (interview).
Inside CC 3, issue 1: 1-3.
"The Professing Teacher." The Cresset LV, no. 7B Special (June 1992): 17-19.
"Letter from Spain." The Cresset LV, no. 7 (May 1990): 20-21.
"The Resurrection of the Body." The Christian Century, March 24, 1989.
"Metaphor, Story, and the Christian Writer." The Cresset 50, no. 4 (Feb. 1987): 12-20.
"My Life on the Fringe: A Report from the Lutheran-Evangelical Frontier." The Cresset XLVIII, no. 9 (October 1985): 18-20.
"On Graduate School, Children and Eccentricity." Wheaton Alumni Magazine 50, no. 5 (1983).
"’More Than Merely Means’: A Poet's Apology." The Cresset, 1983.
"Glimpses Only: Tennessee Williams, 1911-1983." Christianity Today, May, 1983.
"Fiction in the Church." The Cresset, March, 1983. Reprinted as "Fiction and Faith--Studying Literature in the Church." Lutheran Libraries 25, no. 4 (Fall 1983): 76-77.
"Death of the Dream." Inform 61, no. 1 (October 1983): 4-5.
Poetry:
“Faith” and “My Father’s Bones,” Stauros Notebook 24, no. 4 (Winter 2006): 7.
“Pinning Down,” Priscilla Papers 19, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 14.
“Grace,” Priscilla Papers 19, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 14
“Conversion on Hearing Pictures at an Exhibition,” Stauros Notebook, Spring 2005:24.
Ibid., The Cresset LXVIII, no. 5 (Trinity 2005): 54.
“Ecclesiastes,” Stauros Notebook, Spring 2005: 24.
“Jesus Stilling,” The Cresset LXVIII, no. 4 (Easter 2005): 4.
“On His Seventieth Birthday,” Priscilla Papers 19, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 15.
Ibid., Stauros Notebook, Spring 2004: 12.
“Easter Vigil,” The Cresset LXVII, no. 4 (Easter 2004): 40.
“Elegy For A Bull Terrier,” The Cresset LXVII, no. 2 (Advent/Christmas 2003): 55.
“Requiem,” Christianity and Literature 52, no. 3 (Spring 2003): 409-416.
“Where Words Regain Their Meaning,” Seven 18 (2001): 22-24.
“How She Became a Ziegfeld Girl,” Valparaiso Poetry Review 3, no.1 (Fall/Winter
2001-2002), www.valpo.edu/english/vpr.
“Uprooted,” Valparaiso Poetry Review 3, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2001-2002),
www.valpo.edu/english/vpr.
“What Cannot Be Fixed,” Notre Dame Review, no. 10 (Summer 2000): 83-84.
“The String Players Skinnydip,” Notre Dame Review, no. 10 (Summer 2000): 85.
“Cuba: 1979.” Fuel, 20 (Fall 1997): 17.
“Reprint, Stauros Notebook 22, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 6-7.
"Return Ticket," Press, no 5 (Fall 1997): 11-12.
“Cuba 1905: What She Found and Why She Stayed,” Willow Review xxiv (Spring 1997): 17-18.
“Uprooted,” Rockford Art Museum Journal.
“Deer Grass,” Image, no. 17 (Fall 1997): 69-70.
“Bodiless,” Image no. 17 (Fall 1997): p. 70.
“Genesis,” The Christian Century 113, no. 26 (September 11-18, 1996): 862.
"I Remember my Grandmother Meeting my Grandfather," Centennial Review
XXXX, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 93.
"Where She is and Who," Centennial Review XXXX, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 93-4.
"Camera Obscura," Centennial Review XXXX, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 94-95.
"Andrew Wyeth's Distant Thunder," Centennial Review XXXX, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 92.
“Leavings,” River Oak Review, no. 4 (Spring 1995): 29-30.
“Inertia,” Radix 23, no. 2 (Spring 1995): 27.
“Bathsheba,” The Christian Century 112, no. 7 (March 1, 1995): 238. Rpt. in
John Milton Quarterly.
“Ave and Benedicta,” The Christian Century 112, no. 1 (January 4-11, 1995): 18.
“Peláez Relinked,” Atelier 1, Spring 1993: 9.
“Aubade: June 21st,” Atelier 1, Spring 1993: 8.
“New Baby: At First,” Atelier 1, Spring 1993: 10.
“Changeling,” The Cloverdale Review of Criticism and Poetry, 1992-93: 134.
"Spiritus Sanctus," Ariel XI, 1992 (local prize winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts): 44.
"Dog Tags," accepted, Ariel XI, 1992 (national prize winner, Chicago Salute to the
Arts): 15.
"Gardening: The Professor," The Centennial Review XXXVI, no. 3 (Fall
1992): 538-39.
"The Private World of Women," The Centennial Review XXXVI, no. 3 (Fall 1992): 540.
“Compulsive’s Confession,” The Christian Century 109, no. 32 (November 4, 1992): 999.
"Yorktown, Later," 1991 Roberts Writing Awards Annual.
"Un-titled." Second Opinion 17, no. 3 (Jan. 1992): 24.
"On the Death of a Student," Christianity and Literature 40, no. 4 (Summer
1991): 391.
"Spider," Christianity and Literature 40, no. 4 (Summer 1991): 392.
"Story," The Christian Century 108., no. 26 (Sept. 18-25, 1991).
"Complex Phenomena," First Things, no. 10 (March 1991).
"Bilbao Alone," First Things, no. 10 (Feb. 1991).
"We Cannot Keep It," The Christian Century 107, no. 28 (Oct. 10, 1990).
"Jephthah's Daughter." The Christian Century 106, no. 19 (June 7-14, 1989).
"From An Old House in Illinois," The Christian Century 106, no. 21
(July 5-12, 1989).
"Persephone," Ariel VIII, 1989 (local winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts).
"Horripulation," Ariel VIII, 1989 (local winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts).
"What the Butcher Knows," The Cresset, Nov. 1988.
"Galatea," Ariel VII, 1988 (national prize winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts).
"Florence's Dock," Ariel VII, 1988 (national prize winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts). "Feeling the Golden," Ariel VII, 1988 (local prize winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts).
"The Sun," Christianity and Literature 36, no. 2 (Winter, 1987).
"coffee," Christianity and Literature 36, no. 2 (Winter, 1987).
"1930-32," The Centennial Review 31, no. 1 (winter, 1987).
"For Sophie, Bald in Church," Ariel VI, 1987 (national prize winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts). Rpt. in Second Opinion and in Stauros Notebook
"Tumor," Ariel VI, 1987 (local prize winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts).
"Cumbria Pantoum," Ariel VI, 1987 (national prize winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts).
"Eine Kleine. . .," The Cresset.
"Dream," Ariel V, 1986 (prize winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts).
"Art Project," Ariel V, 1986 (prize winner, Chicago Salute to the Arts).
"Simultaneity," New Collage Magazine 16, nos. 2 and 3.
"The Women Across the Back Alley," Ariel IV, 1985 (prize winner, Chicago Salute
to the Arts).
"What I Knew, Age 3," Ariel IV, 1985 (prize winner, Chicago Salute to Arts).
"Upon Finding a Photo of My Second Grade Class," Visions 19 (1985).
"Writing Class," Ripples 13/3, 1985.
"Parting Oxford," Ripples 13/3, 1985.
"inner," Ripples 13/3, 1985.
"Before My Son's Birthday," Ripples 13/3, 1985.
"No Apples in this Garden, Sir," Inform 61, no. 1 (October 1983).
Anthologized Poems:
“What the Butcher Knows,” In
Poems for a Good and Happy Life, ed.
Myrna Grant (CrossAmerica Books, 1997).
“Bilbao Alone” and “Sophie, Bald in Church,” In Odd Angles
of Heaven, ed.
Janet McCann and David Craig (Harold Shaw, 1994).
“Upon Finding a Photo of My Second Grade Class,” In Important Words,
ed.
Bill Brown and Malcolm Glass (Boynton/Cook, 1991).
Poetry Performances and Services:
“Children of God,” College
Church, March, 2004.
“Requiem: Twelve Poems Commemorating September 11th,” Grace Lutheran Church, Service of Remembrance and Healing, September 11, 2002.
Hymn Text, Grace Lutheran Church Centennial Hymn, music by David Brackley, presented in worship March, 2002.
Performance of “Seven Psalms of Grace,” text by Jill Baumgaertner, music by Richard Hillert, College Church, Jan. 31, 1999.
Performance of “Seven Psalms of Grace,” text by Jill Baumgaertner, music by Richard Hillert, February 1, 1998, Grace Lutheran Church.
Reviews:
Reviews of The Waters Under the Earth, by Robert Siegel, Ghost Pain, by Sydney Lea, To the Green Man, by Mark Jarman, Francis and Clare in Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Janet McCann, and Second Space, by Czeslaw Milosz, The Christian Century 122, no. 25 (December 13, 2005): 25.
Review of The Poems of Rowan Williams, by Rowan Williams, The Christian Century 122, no. 21 (October 2005): 61-65.
Review of A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry, edited by Ann Hostetler, The Christian Century 121, no. 20 (October 2004): 45-46.
Review of Contending for the Faith: The Church’s Engagement with Culture, by Ralph C. Wood, The Christian Century 120, no. 25 (December 2003): 46-48.
Review of C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse, by Don W. King, Seven 19 (2002): 106-110.
Review of A Simple Habana Melody, by Oscar Hijuelos, The Cresset 66, no. 2 (December 2002): 25-26.
Review of The St. Matthew Passion: A Text for Voices, by John Reeves, The Christian Century 118, no. 26 (September 26-October 3. 2001): 38-39.
Review of The Poets’ Jesus, by Peggy Rosenthal, The Christian Century 117, no. 27 (October 11, 2000): 1014-1016.
Review of four books on reading poetry, “Poetry: Why Bother?,” Books and Culture, Nov-Dec. 2000.
Review of Walter Wangerin’s Paul: A Novel, The Christian Century 117, no. 22 (August 2-9, 2000): 798-799.
Review of R. V. Young, At War With the Word: LiteraryTheory and Liberal Education, Christianity and Literature 49, no. 3 (Spring 2000): 394-5.
Review of Richard Wilbur’s Mayflies, The Christian Century 117, no. 17 (May 24-31, 2000): 607-8.
Review of New Fields and Other Stones: On a Child’s Death, by Saul Bennett, The Christian Century 116, no. 28 (October 20, 1999): 1006-08.
Review of For the Time Being, by Annie Dilliard, The Christian Century 116, no.16 (May 19-26, 1999): 572-73.
Review of Upholding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry, ed. David Impastato, The Christian Century 114, no. 18 (June 4-11, 1997): 569-571.
“Five Women Poets,” Image, no. 15 (Fall 1996): 115-123. (Jane Kenyon, Denise Levertov, Kathleen Norris, Molly Peacock, Linda Pastan.)
Review of John Donne’s Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross, Raymond-Jean Frontain and Frances M. Malpezzi, eds., Christianity and Literature 45, no. 3-4 (Winter 1996): 430-432.
Review of Breaking the Fall: Religious Readings of Contemporary Fiction by Robert Detweiler, Anglican Theological Review LXXVIII, no. 4: 707-708.
Review of Words Spoken, Words Unspoken by Edward Byrne, The Christian Century 113, no. 9 (March 13, 1996): 302-303.
“Trusting the Metaphor,” review of The Ritual Year, by Arnold Kenseth, The Christian Century 111, no. 31 (November 2, 1994): 1023-27.
“Suffer the Little Children.” Review of Souls Raised from the Dead, by Doris Betts, Millroy the Magician, by Paul Theroux, and Knowledge of Angels, by Jill Paton Walsh, The Christian Century 111, No. 28 (October 12, 1994): 927-929.
Review of American Gargoyles: Flannery O’Connor and the Medieval Grotesque, by Anthony Di Renzo, American Literature, September 1994: 607-608.
Review of Frederick Buechner’s Son of Laughter, The Christian Century 110, no. 24
(August 25-September 1, 1993): 826-27.
Review of Gary M. Ciuba’s Walker Percy: Books of Revelations, Christianity and Literature
41, no. 3 (Spring 1992): 367-68.
Review of Frank Shaeffer’s Portofino, First Things, no. 28 (December, 1992): 62-64.
Review of Robert Inchausti’s The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People, Philosophy and Literature 16, no. 2 (October 1992): 380-381.
Review of James S. Baumlin's John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse, Renaissance Quarterly XLV, no. 3 (Autumn 1992): 606-609.
Review of Cynthia Marshall’s Last Things and Last Plays: Shakespearean Eschatology, The Christian Century 109, no. 18 (May 20-27, 1992): 552-554.
Review of Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, The Christian Century 109, no. 13 (April 15, 1992): 405-6.
“Mary Gordon’s Catholic Questions,” Review of Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays. The Christian Century 108, no. 34 (Nov. 20-27, 1991): 1101-1104.
Review of Frederick Buechner, The Book of Bebb and Telling Secrets, The Cresset LIV, no. 9 (October, 1991): 34-35.
Review of Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl Heinz-Westarp, eds, Walker Percy: Novelist and Philosopher, Christianity and Literature 41, no. 1 (Autumn 1991): 100-103.
"The New Masculinity or the Old Mystification?," review article in The Christian Century 108, no. 18 (May 29-June 5, 1991): 593-96.
David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, King Warrior Magician Lover: Rediscovering
the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
"Women, Men and the Engendering Word," review article in The Christian Century 107, no. 34 (November 1990): 1103-1110.
Hugh Cook, The Homecoming Man
Louise De Salvo, Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work
Malcolm Glass, In the Shadow of the Gourd
Octavio Paz, Sor Juan: or the Traps of Faith
A Sor Juana Anthology
Jeanne Murray Walker, Coming into History
"The Transcendent in the Mundane," Review of Ordinary Time, by A. G. Mojtabai, First Things, no. 4 (June/July 1990): 61.
Review of Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl, The Christian Century 107, no. 8 (March 7, 1990): 258-59.
Review of Ralph C.Wood, The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists, The Cresset LIII, no. 4 (February 1990): 33.
"Art and Religion," review article in Christian Century 106, no. 34 (Nov. 15, 1989): 1048-1050.
Sister Maura Eichner, Hope is a Blind Bard
Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion
Michael Malone, Time's Witness
Luci Shaw, God in the Dark: Through Grief and Beyond William Zinsser, ed., Spiritual Quests: The Art and Craft of Religious Writing
Larry Woiwode, Born Brothers
Review of Walter Wangerin Jr., Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace, The Christian Century 106, no. 27 (Sept. 27, 1989): 857-858.
"That in Dark Earth Many Days Hath Lain," review of J. F. Powers, Wheat That Springeth Green, The Cresset LII, no.7 (May, 1989): 20-21.
"Speaking When Words Won't Do," The Cresset LII, no. 4 (Feb. 1989): 30-1.
Elie Wiesel, Twilight
"Writing Oneself," The Cresset LII, no. 2 (Dec. 1988): 30-31.
Shusaku Endo, Scandal
Review of Revelation, by Peggy Payne, The Cresset LII, no. 1 (Nov. 1988): 28-29.
"A New Voice from Ireland," The Cresset 50, no. 6 (April 1987): 30-31.
Mary Leland, The Killeen
"Establishing Connections," The Cresset 50, no. 5 (Mar 1987): 26-28.
Michael Malone, Handling Sin
Review of The Complete English Poems of John Donne, ed. C. A. Patrides, The Review of English Studies XXXVII, no. 148 (Nov. 1986): 565.
"Animal Stories," The Cresset XLIX, no. 7 (May 1986): 30-31.
Walter Wangerin, Jr., The Book of Sorrows
"Approach/Avoidance Anthology," The Cresset XLIX, no. 5 (Mar 1986): 28-31.
Janet Burroway, Opening Nights
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Shusako Endo, Stained Glass Elegies
George Garrett, The Succession
Mary Gordon, Men and Angels
"Unwrapping the Cracked Wheat," The Cresset XLIX, no. 3 (Jan. 1986): 28-31.
Hugh Cook, Cracked Wheat and Other Stories
Review of Continental Drift, by Russell Banks, The Christian Century 102, no. 23
(July 17-24, 1985): 686.
Review of Themes of Peace in Renaissance Poetry, by James Hutton, The Christian Century 102, no. 17 (May 15, 1985): 508.
"Witches' Sabbath, 1985," The Cresset XLVIII, no. 7 (May 1985): 26-28.
John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick
"The Story, the Sign," The Cresset XLIX, no. 5 (Mar 1985): 16-17.
Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
"Literature as Luminosity," The Cresset XLVIII, no. 3 (Jan. 1985): 30-31.
Eva Figes, Light
"Pedagogues and Their Mysteries," The Cresset XLVII, no. 8 (Sep. 1984): 24-26.
Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy
"Evangelical Fervor: A Summoning Tale," The Cresset XLVII, no. 7 (May 1984): 22-24.
Robert Towers, The Summoning
"Gondoliers and Anatomy Lessons," The Cresset XLVII, no. 5 (March 1984): 19-21.
S. Morgenstern, The Silent Gondoliers
Philip Roth, The Anatomy Lesson
"Triangulation," The Cresset XLVII, no. 3 (Jan. 1984): 17-19.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Marina Warner, The Skating Party
Nora Ephron, Heartburn
Review of The Disintered Muse: Donne's Texts and Contexts, by David Novarr, The Review of English Studies XXXIV, no. 136 (Nov. 1983): 503-504.
Review of Costly Monuments: Representations of the Self in George Herbert's Poetry, by Barbara Leah Harmon, The Christian Century 100, no. 16 (May 18, 1983): 503-504.
Review of The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, The Cresset XLVI, no. 7 (May 1983): 28-29.
Review of The Flames of Rome, by Paul Maier, Christianity Today, Feb. 4, 1983: 91-95.
"Literature of the Shrubbery," The Cresset XLVI, no. 1 (Nov. 1982: 25-27.
Me Again: Uncollected Writings of Stevie Smith
Review of The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, by Northrop Frye, The Christian Century 99, no. 29 (Sept. 29, 1982): 962-963.
Review of The Safety Net, by Heinrich Boll, The Christian Century 99, no. 27 (Sept. 1-8,
1982): 901-902.
"Poetry in Bed and Board," The Cresset XLV, no. 8 (Sept. 1982): 29-31.
D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel
Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
"The Supernatural and Southern Beer Bread," The Cresset XLV, no. 7 (May 1982): 27-29.
Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Supernatural
Lee Smith, Cakewalk
"Irving, Angelou, and Faulkner: Old, New, and Autobiographical," The Cresset XLV, no. 5
(March 1982): 24-26.
John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman
The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner, ed. Joseph Blotner
Review of Poppa John, by Larry Woiwode, The Christian Century 99, no. 5 (Feb. 17, 1982):
85-86.
"Felix Culpa and its Critics," (Music review) The Cresset XLII, no. 4 (Feb. 1979): 23-24.
Paradise Lost (opera), Kryzysztof Penderecki
"If Dreams Were Words. . . ," The Cresset XXXVIII, no. 10 (Oct. 1975): 24-26.
Nikki Giovanni, My House
Anne Sexton, The Death Notebooks
Anne Szumigalski, Woman Reading in Bath
"Gwendolyn Brooks: Tintinnabulation," The Cresset XXXVII, no. 3 (Jan. 1974): 12-15.
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
Report from Part One
Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology
Riot
Review of Obscenities, by Michael Casey, The Cresset XXXVI, no. 10 (Oct. 1973): 42.
"Four Poets," The Cresset 36, no. 6 (April 1973): 16-19.
John Berryman, Delusions, Etc.
Peter Klappert, Luggging Vegetables to Nantucket
James Merrill, Braving the Elements
Sylvia Plath, Winter Trees
CHOICE REVIEWS:
Review of Three Day Road: a novel, by Joseph Boyden, Choice, December 2005.
Review of Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature, by Nicholas Boyle, Choice, September 2005.
Review of Theatre and religion: Lancastrian Shakespeare, edited by Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, and Richard Wilson, Choice, November 2004.
Review of Broken English/breaking English: a study of contemporary poetries in English, by Fairleigh Dickinson, Choice, Forthcoming.
Review of Return to good and evil: Flannery O’Connor’s response to nihilism, by Henry T. Edmondson III, Choice, Forthcoming.
Review of The life you save may be your own: an American pilgrimage, by Paul Elie, Choice 41, no. 3 (November 2003).
Review of Perma Red, by Debra Magpie Earline, Choice 40, no. 4 (December 2002).
Review of Donne and the Resources of Kind, ed. A. D. Cousins and Damian Grace, Choice 40, no. 1 (September 2002).
Review of Ritual Performance in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor, by Cynthia L. Seel,
Choice 39, no. 1 (September 2001).
Review of Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship, by Katherine Hemple Prown, Choice 39, no. 1 (September 2001).
Review of Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England, by Kristen Poole, Choice 38, no. 8 (April 2001).
Review of Lost Property: the Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589, Choice 38, no. 4 (December 2000).
Review of Women Writing and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britian, Choice 38, no. 1 (September 2000).
Review of Richard Giannone, Flannery O’Connor and the Mystery of Love, Choice 37, no.11/12 (July/August 2000).
Review of Aphra Behn, ed. Janet Todd, Choice 37, no. 3 (November 1999).
Review of John Donne, ed. Andrew Mousley, Choice 36, no. 10 (June 1999).
Review of Internet Resource: Sonnet Central URL: http://www.sonnets.org. Choice 36, no. 9 (May 1999).
Review of Hunger: A Novella and Stories, by Lan Samantha Chang, Choice 36, no. 6 (February 1999).
Review of Walker Percy: A Life, by Patrick Samway, Choice 35, no. 7 (March 1998).
Review of Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England, by Huston Diehl, Choice 35, no. 1 (September 1997).
Review of The Fragile City: Poems, by Lesley Dauer, Choice 34, no. 10 (June 1997).
Review of Brief Landing on the Earth’s Surface, by Juanita Brunk, Choice 34, no. 8 (April 1997).
Review of Living in the Resurrection, by T. Crunk, Choice 34, no. 4 (December, 1996).
Review of Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England, by Naomi J. Miller, Choice 34, no. 3 (November 1996).
Review of The Rover; The Feigned Courtesans; The Lucky Change; The Emperor of the Moon, by Aphra Behn, edited by Jane Spencer, Choice 33, no. 11/12 (July/August 1996).
Review of The Play of Paradox: State and Sermon in Renaissance England, by Bryan Crokett, Choice 33, no. 10 (June 1996).
Review of In the Wheat: Songs in Your Presence, by Charles. L. Cingolani, Choice.
Review of The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie, Choice 33, no. 3 (November 1995).
Review of “The muses females are”: Martha Moulsworth and Other Women Writers of the English Renaissance, ed. Robert C. Evans and Anne C. Little, Choice 33, no. 3 (November 1995).
Review of Understanding Flannery O’Connor, by Margaret Earley Whitt, Choice 33, no. 2 (October, 1995).
Review of Track of the Mystic: the Spirituality of Jessica Powers, Choice 32 no. 8 (April, 1995).
Review of Dionysus in Literature, edited by Branmir M. Rieger, Choice, Vol. 32, No. 5, (January, 1995): 155.
Review of Martha Moulsworth, “My Name Was Martha,” Choice, March, 1994.
CHURCH PRESENTATIONS:
Lenten Homily on Almsgiving, Grace Lutheran Church, March 2006.
“John Updike’s ‘The Music School,’ Adult Education Class, Grace Lutheran Church, May, 2004.
"Poetry, Faith, and Music," Adult Education Class team taught with Gracia Grindal, Grace Lutheran Church, February 22, 2004.
“Religion and American Literature” and “The Christian Reader’s Response to Postmodern Literature,” Grace Lutheran Church, November, 2003.
“Good Country People”: A Discussion, Grace Lutheran Church, May 2003.
Lenten Homily, Grace Lutheran Church, April, 2003.
Poetry Reading, Grace Lutheran Church, February, 2003.
“Religion and American Literature,” and “The Christian Reader’s Response to Postmodern Literature,” LaSalle Street Church, February, 2003.
“Introduction to Religion and Literature,” St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Chicago,
November 17, 2002.
“Compelling Stories of the Faith,” adult education class at Grace Lutheran Church, May, 2002.
Four classes on Faith and Literature, Arlington Heights Evangelical Free Church, February, 2002.
Homily, Grace Lutheran Church Cantata Series, February, 2002.
Performance of “Seven Psalms of Grace,” text by Jill Baumgaertner, music by Richard Hillert, College Church, Jan. 31, 1999.
Performance of “Seven Psalms of Grace,” text by Jill Baumgaertner, music by Richard Hillert, February 1, 1998, Grace Lutheran Church.
“The Importance of Story to the People of God,” address to Abbey Reformed Church, Huntingdon, PA., March 24, 1996.
Lenten Homily, Luncheon Series, Abby Reformed Church, Huntingdon, March 15, 1996.
“Imagining the Unimaginable,” sermon at Stone Church of the Brethren, Feb. 18, 1996.
“A Good Salting,” sermon at St. James Lutheran Church, Feb. 4, 1996.
“The Stretch of Belief,” sermon at First Brethren Church, Philadelphia, Dec, 10, 1995.
“Faith and Story,” address to First Regular Baptist Church, Huntingdon, PA., Nov. 19, 1995.
"John Donne: Imaging the Resurrection," Festival of the Resurrection, St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Chicago, April, 1991.
"Death and the Modern Imagination," keynote address at the Festival of the Resurrection at
St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Chicago, April 1988.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
“The Use of Literature in the Church,” Lutheran
School of Theology at Chicago, November 2005.
Poetry Reading, Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing, April 2004
“Flannery O’Connor,” session at Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing, April 2004.
Poetry Reading, SECCL, Montreat College, North Carolina, April 2004.
“Can Poetry Save Culture” (keynote address), SECCL, Montreat College, North Carolina,
April 2004.
“Flannery O'Connor: Violence and the Tug of Vocation,” lecture at Christ College, Valparaiso University, Feb. 17, 2004.
Poetry Reading, Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Munster, Indiana, November 24, 2003.
Poetry Reading, Border’s Book Store, Naperville, September 18, 2003.
“Flannery O’Connor’s ‘All That Rises Must Converge,’” River Forest Public Library Discussion Group, March, 2004.
Poetry Reading, Wheaton College Writing and Literature Conference, September 26, 2002.
CCL Mideast Conference: Featured Poet, Poetry Reading and Conversation with Students, University of Dayton, October 18-19, 2002.
Judge, Poetry and Fiction, EPA Awards, March 2002.
Poetry Reading, Andrews University, Feb., 2002.
Poetry Reading, Transitions Bookstore, Chicago, June 9, 2001.
Poetry Reading, Oak Park Public Library, May 22, 2001.
"Leaving Eden: The Woman as Exile and as Artist," poetry reading at the Conference on Women and Spirituality, Juniata College, April, 2001.
"Language and Identity: Can Poetry Save Culture?," keynote address to the North American Christian Foreign Language Teachers, Wheaton, April, 2001.
"Flannery O'Connor and the Cartoon Catechism," Midwest CCL, Chicago, March 2001.
"Flannery O'Connor's Outrageous, Disturbing, Violent Vision," address to faculty and students at Concordia University, February, 2001.
“Doris Betts: Faith and Fiction,” session chaired at the MLA Convention, Washington, DC., December, 2000.
“Flannery O’Connor and the Cartoon Catechism,” South Central MLA, San Antonio, November 2000.
Judge, Poetry Contest, Christianity and the Arts, February, 2000.
Three lectures on Flannery O’Connor and one panel discussion, Cornerstone Festival, Macomb, Illinois, June 30-July 3, 1999.
“Flannery O’Connor,” interview in Mars Hill Audio Magazine 37 (March/April 1999).
Judge, ACP Fiction Competition, Spring, 1999.
Review team member for English Department, St. Xavier University, Chicago, Spring Semester, 1999.
Presided at MLA session featuring Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, December 1998.
Lecture on Flannery O’Connor, River Forest Public Library, October 1998.
Commencement Address, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, May 1998.
Address to Scholastic Honor Society Inductees, April, 1998.
“Richard Wilbur: Dream, Imagination and the Incarnate Word,” Midwest CCL Conference, April, 1998, Taylor University.
Judge, Icarus Literary Competition, 1997 edition of Icarus
Chair, “Flannery O’Connor in Our Time,” session at MLA, December, 1996, Washington, D.C.
Judge, ACP Poetry Contest, January, 1997.
Judge, White Eagle Coffee Store Press Chapbook Contest, December 1996.
Poetry Reading, Campbellsville University, November 13, 1996.
“Flannery O’Connor and the Violent Imagination,” Convocation Address, Campbellsville University, November 13, 1996.
“Richard Wilbur: ‘Riding On Into What Is Not’,” paper read at South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Savannah Ga., November 8-10, 1996.
“Flannery O’Connor and the Limitations of Language,” paper read at the Northeast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Regis College, Boston, Oct. 10-12, 1996.
“Flannery O’Connor’s Disconnections,” Fall Symposium Lecture, Loyola College of Baltimore, Oct. 1, 1996.
Keynoter, “The Quest for the Grail” Kanuga Episcopal Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC, June 16-21, 1996.
Poetry Reading, Eclectic Junction Art Gallery, July 12, 1996.
Poetry Reading, Rockford Art Museum, May, 1996.
Poetry Reading, Art Gallery, Outer Banks, N.C. April, 1996.
Poetry Reading, Franciscan University, April 15, 1996.
Poetry Reading, Messiah College, March 21, 1996.
Judge, ACP Poetry and Fiction Contest, Feb., 1996.
Judge, EPA Poetry Contest, Feb., 1996.
“The Female Professor in the Christian University,” address to the Women’s Caucus, Gordon College, Nov. 30, 1995.
“Christian Perspectives on Humanities in the Post-Modern World: Violence and the Post-Modern Imagination,” Convocation Address, Gordon College, Dec. 1, 1995.
“Women’s Voices,” Juniata College, Nov. 7, 1995.
“Faith and the Imagination,” address to the Ecumenical Group, Juniata College, Nov, 1, 1995.
Panel Discussion Participant on “The Current State of Publishing,” Mideast Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, University of Dayton, October 27-28, 1995.
“The Christian Writer in the Age of Unbelief,” Keynote Address, Mideast Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, University of Dayton, October 27-28, 1995.
Poetry Reading, Juniata College, October, 1995.
“The Writer in the Age of Unbelief,” Chapel Address, Wheaton Writing and Literature Conference, September 29, 1995.
“The Facts of Poetry: ‘Fictions Only and False Hair,’” paper presented at the Wheaton Writing and Literature Conference, September 29, 1995.
Poetry Reading, HotHouse, Chicago, June 28, 1995.
Poetry Reading, Eclectic Junction Gallery, Chicago, April 21, 1995.
Homily, Wheaton Theology Conference on Postliberalism, April 22, 1995.
Poetry Reading, Midwest CCL, Greenville College, March 30, 1995
"John Donne's Polyphonic Imagination: 1611-1613," paper presented at Greenville College, Midwest CCL, March 30, 1995.
"Violence and the Modern Imagination ," annual lecture for Seniors delivered at Berea College, March, 1995.
Judge, Campus Life Poetry Contest, March, 1995.
Judge, Trinity College Fine Arts Contest, February 1995.
Judge, Associated Church Presses, Fiction and Poetry, February 1995
Judge, Evangelical Press Association, First Person Articles, February 1995
Poetry Reading, Wheaton College, February 17, 1995.
“Flannery O’Connor and the Limitations of Language,” paper presented at the Southwest CCL conference, Oklahoma Christian University, October, 1994.
Poetry Reading, Oklahoma Christian University, October 1994.
“Rereading John Donne,” paper presented at the South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, Centenary College, Shreveport, La., Feb. 1994.
Poetry Reading, South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, Centenary College, Shreveport, La., Feb. 1994.
“John Donne’s Anniversaries and Political Opportunism,” paper read at conference: Public Roles and Private Lives,” University of Central Florida, March 1993.
Midwest MLA, Respondent to session on Flannery O’Connor, November, 1992.
Judge, Illinois Optimist Club Speech Contest, 1991, 1992.
Judge, Northcote Press Fiction Contest, 1992.
Judge, Annual Poetry Awards, Evangelical Press Association, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994.
“‘Galatea and Other Poems,’” Poetry Reading given at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 27-29, 1992.
"Flannery O'Connor: Parables of Shock," Wheaton College Writing and Literature Conference, September, 1991.
"Leaving Eden: A Poetic Response," poetry reading given at Writing and Literature Conference, Wheaton College, Oct. 5, 1990.
"Flannery O'Connor and the Religion of the Grotesque," lecture delivered at Deusto University, Anglo-American Conference, March 28, 1990.
"Flannery O'Connor and the Limitations of Language," lecture delivered at Aarhus University and at Odense University, in Aarhus and Odense, Denmark, by invitation of the Fulbright Commission, February and March, 1990.
"Literature: The Current Scene," address at Midwest CCL Meeting, Milwaukee, Sept., 1989.
"Death and the Modern Imagination," address at Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature Meeting, Milwaukee, Sept., 1989
"Metaphor, Story and the Incarnation," Writing and Literature Conference, Wheaton College, Fall, 1988.
"Flannery O'Connor's 'Judgement Day': A Postmodern Story or 'Is There a Gospel in This Text?,'" paper read at the Flannery O'Connor Symposium, West Chester University, Oct. 7-9, 1987.
Poetry Reading, Festival of the Arts and the Church, Milwaukee, Nov. 7-9, 1986.
Poetry Reading, The Fortnightly Club of Chicago, Nov. 6, 1986.
"Alice Walker's Varied Colors": paper presented to the Chicago Call to Action Conference, Fall, 1984.
"The Use of the Imagination in Freshman Writing Classes": seminar led at the Writing and Literature Conference, Wheaton College, Fall, 1984.
"Luther and the Arts: A Response," paper read at the Wheaton conference on Luther, September, 1983.
"Faith and Fiction": paper delivered to the conference of the Midwest Lutheran Librarians' Association, October, 1982.
"John Donne's Poetry: 'A Harmony Rather Danc'd Than Sung’": paper read at the Conference on the Advancement of Early Studies, Ball State University, October 1981.
