
“And we must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply, and so many of our old ideas disparage. In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.”
– Audre Lorde, from “Poetry is Not a Luxury”
Books

International theological perspectives on war and peace through the figure of Mary. Co-edited with Lenart Škof and Pavlo Smytsnyuk.
Journal & Chapter Contributions
Introduction to special issue of Body and Religion (7.2), co-edited with Wesley Barker, on Irigaray and Religion, May 2025.
“She who ripens the grain: Food Justice, Solidarity, and the Incarnation.” In Marian Reflections on War and Peace (Routledge, 2025).
“‘A Place of Peace’: Food Sovereignty Movements and Collective Action for Food Peace.” Peace Chronicle: The Magazine of the Peace and Justice Studies Association: https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/peace-chronicle/
“Transformational Learning at Christian Brothers University: A Lasallian Pedagogical Framework.” Co-authored with Dr. Anthony Trimboli et al. Axis: Journal of Lasallian Higher Education. November 8, 2023: https://axisjournal.org/vol-14-no-1-2023/
“‘What we raise ourselves’: Food Sovereignty in the Mississippi Delta.” Co-authored with Dr. Mary Campbell and Mr. Ryan Betz. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Published March 22, 2022: https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.112.019
“Unauthorized Writing: Feminist Theology as Apophasis,” in Erotic Faith: Desire, Suffering, and Transformation in the Incarnational Theology of Wendy Farley, ed. Mari Kim (Wipf and Stock, 2022).
“‘Sow, Grow, Know, and Show’: The Impact of School Gardens on Student Self-Perception in the Mississippi Delta.” Co-authored with Dr. Mary Campbell, Dr. Wesley James, and Dr. Karen Matthews. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 60: 2. Published online October 13, 2020: https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2020.1807343
“The Age of The Spirit: Irigaray, Apocalypse, and the Trinitarian View of History,” in Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray: Language, Origin, Art, Love, ed. Gail M. Schwab (SUNY series in Gender Theory; SUNY Press, 2020).
“Race, Religion, and Justice: From Privilege to Solidarity in the Mid-South Food Movement.” Co-authored with Christopher Peterson. In Food Justice in US and Global Contexts: Bringing Theory and Practice Together, ed. Ian Werkheiser and Zachary Piso (Springer, 2017).
“Introduction: On Maternality, Between Theology and Sexuality,” Theology & Sexuality 19:3 (2013): 195–202. Guest editor of special issue on “Maternality.” https://doi.org/10.1179/1355835814Z.00000000034
“Know Food, Know Peace? Community Based Agriculture and the Practice of Non-violence,” in The Poesis of Peace: Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies, ed. Klaus-Gerd Giesen, Carool Kersten, and Lenart Skof (Routledge, 2017).
“Feminism: Gendered Bodies and Religion,” in Embodied Religion: Bodies, Sex and Sexuality volume, ed. Kent L. Brintnall, in Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion, edited by Jeffrey J. Kripal (Macmillan, 2016).
“The Gift of Breath: Toward a Maternal Pneumatology,” in Breathing with Luce Irigaray, ed. Lenart Škof and Emily A. Holmes (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), 36-49.
“Ecofeminist Christology, Incarnation, and the Spirituality and Ethics of Eating,” Poligrafi 69/70 (Winter 2013): 29-49. http://www.poligrafi.si/Content/pub/LivingWithConsequences.pdf
“Hadewijch and the Mother of Love: Writing the Incarnation through Maternality and Mysticism,” Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History 18:2 (Winter 2012): 55-70.
“‘My God Became Flesh’: Angela of Foligno Writing the Incarnation,” in Women, Writing, Theology: Transforming a Tradition of Exclusion, ed. Emily A. Holmes and Wendy Farley (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2011), 53-69.
“Writing the Body of Christ: Each Flesh Becoming Word,” in Luce Irigaray: Teaching, ed. Luce Irigaray and Mary Green (London: Continuum, 2008), 127-41.
“Delores Williams’ Theology of the Wilderness Experience: Incarnation in the Wild,” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 53:3-4 (2004): 13-26.
“Women’s Heretical Spirituality: Marguerite Porete and the Guglielmites,” Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History 10:1 (Summer 2004): 72-87.

“Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.”
– Wendell Berry, from “How to be a Poet”



