Writing

Book

White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalization. Religion and Social Transformation. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2024.

Book Chapters

“Is, Was, and Is to Come: Freedom Dreamworld Dispatches” in Spirituality and Abolition, eds. Ashon Crawley, Roberto Sirvent, and Abolition Collective (Brooklyn, NY: Common Notions, 2023). (pdf)

“Why it Pays to Imprison: Unmasking the Prison Industrial Complex” in Will D. Campbell and Richard C. Goode, eds., And the Criminals With Him: Essays in Honor of Will D. Campbell and All the Reconciled (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2012). (pdf)

Journal Articles

“Matters of Life and Death: Political Theology in Jacques Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars.” (Guest Editor Introduction.) Political Theology 19, no. 2 (March 2018): 77-78. (pdf)

“The Color of Transcendence: Whiteness, Sovereignty, and the Theologico-Political.” Political Theology 19, no. 2 (March 2018): 137-156. (pdf)

“Soulful Resistance: Theological Body Knowledge on Tennessee’s Death Row.” The Other Journal 23: The Body Issue (2014). (pdf)

“A Peculiar Education: Poetry, Homelessness, and the Imagination.” The Other Journal 12: The Education Issue (2008). (Co-authored with Lindsey Krinks).

Community and Participatory Action Reports

Free Them All: The Double Crisis of Human Caging & COVID-19 in New Jersey. American Friends Service Committee’s New Jersey Immigrant Rights Program and New Jersey Prison Watch Program (2022).

Fund Communities, Not Cops & Cages: A People’s Guide to Nashville’s City Budget, 2020-2021. Nashville People’s Budget Coalition (Co-Author) (2021).

Invest/Divest: Building a Nashville People’s Budget. Nashville People’s Budget Coalition (Co-Author) (2020).

Driving While Black: A Report on Racial Profiling in Metro Nashville Police Department Traffic Stops. Gideon’s Army in Collaboration with Community Organizations and Leaders (Co-Author, Editor, & Project Facilitator) (2016).

Popular Articles (Selected)

“Mass Criminalization as Religion,” Inquest (2024).

“Ella, Peggy, Myles, and Jesus: Facilitating Transformation.” Daily Theology (2017).

“Collective Ownership of the Earth Forever and Ever, Amen!” Daily Theology (2017).

“Learning and Unlearning White Supremacy.” Moyo: Where Contemplation and Action Meet (2014).

Op-Eds (Selected)

“Nashville needs a people’s budget built on public goods not policing” (co-authored with the Nashville People’s Budget Coalition), The Tennessean, May 27, 2020.

“Community Oversight: Why I’m Voting for Amendment 1,” The Tennessean, November 3, 2018.

Feature Journalism (Selected)

“Criminal: When Existing in Public Becomes Illegal.” The Contributor Vol. 7, No. 14 (2013).

Remembrances (Selected)

“Don Beisswenger, Presente!” December 16, 2018.

Sermons (Selected)

“The Fires of Justice,” Vanderbilt Divinity School, October 15, 2014.