Publications

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Books

Resistance and Transformation: Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Historywith Julia Hamilton, Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2010.
The Bridging Program: Workshops and Guidelines, with Dawn Star Borchelt, Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2004.

Book Chapters

“Black Humanism’s Response to Suffering,” in Humanist Voices in Unitarian Universalism, ed. Kendal Gibbons and Bill Murry (Boston: Skinner House Press, 2017)
“The Black Humanist Fellowship of Liberation,” in Darkening the Doorways: Black Trailblazers and Missed Opportunities in Unitarian Universalism, ed. Mark Morrison-Reed, Boston: Skinner House, 2011.
Memory and Witness,” with Howard Bossen, in Thy Brother’s Keeper, ed. Geno Rodriguez , Flint, MI: Flint Institute of Art, 2006.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Populism as Political Ontology: The Varieties of Populism in the United States,” Politics, Religion & Ideology, Vol. 23, No. 2, Autumn 2022
“Libuše Jarcovjákova — Life played out in images,” with Howard Bossen, KATALOG: Journal of Photography & Video, Vol. 32, issue 2, November 2021
“Now is the Time: Leonard Freed’s Photographs of South Africa’s 1994 Election,” with Howard Bossen, KATALOG: Journal of Photography & Video, Vol. 31, issue 2, November 2020
Recovering Abby Price,”Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 2015
The Chicago Couriers Union: A Case Study in Solidarity Unionism,” Working USA, Summer 2012.
Temporary Autonomous Zones and the Power of Ritual,” Journal of Liberal Religion, Spring 2006.

Selected Shorter Pieces

The Universalist Klansman,”UU World, Summer 2018
Will We Accompany Them?,”UU World, Winter 2014
“Benediction,” in Falling into the Sky, ed. Abhi and Abhimanyu Janamanchi, Boston: Skinner House Press, 2013
“Magical Thinking,” in Falling into the Sky, ed. Abhi and Abhimanyu Janamanchi, Boston: Skinner House Press, 2013
“Workers Power: Towards an Organizational Theory?,” Industrial Worker, May 2012
Eschatology and Community Gardens,” Sightings, October 6, 2011
An Open Letter to Religious Leaders in Support of Collective Bargaining,” Huffington Post, February 25, 2011
Immigration and Indigenous Theology,” Sightings, February 10, 2011
Stephen Hawking and the Religion vs. Science Debate,” Sightings, September 23, 2010
An Arizona Chronology: One Person’s Story of a Day Protesting SB 1070 in Arizona,” La Prensa San Diego, August 6, 2010
“Workers Power: It Takes More Than Direct Action,” Industrial Worker, July 2010
Black humanism’s response to suffering,” UU World, Summer 2010
“Workers Power,” Industrial Worker, September 2007
“Chicago Couriers Union: a lesson for IWW solidarity unionism organizers,” Industrial Worker, August 2007

Columnist

“Ask the Clergy,” weekly column in the Long Beach Press Telegram, January to June 2006.

Editor

Editor, “Workers Power,” monthly collaborative column in the Industrial Worker, January 2007 to present
Managing Editor, Journal of Liberal Religion, Chicago, IL, October 2004 to June 2006

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