Recent — I write Christian essays and publishing them around the web.
- Too Tired to Pray: What I Learned About Prayer When Words Wouldn’t Come. Published at Anglican Compass, January 14, 2021.
- This essay is a short devotional one the goodness I found basking in the prayers of the universal Church on a day when I was too tired to even “think” the prayers along with everyone. I was unintentionally poured out and prepared for the Spirit to enter in.
- Confession Has a Home in Canterbury. Published at The North American Anglican, December 31, 2020.
- I have since returned to the Catholic Church and I recant this essay.
- Abide with Me: How the quest for Christ brought me to the Church of England. Published at The North American Anglican, October 21, 2020.
- I have since returned to the Catholic Church and I recant this essay.
- St. Benedict’s Guide to Surviving the Lockdown. Published on Covenant, the blog of The Living Church magazine, June 30, 2020.
- When the pandemic was still a fun adventure, I wrote a list-essay about how monastic wisdom could help us endure.
Older — as a younger man, I briefly ran a journal of essays with two old friends from my college newspaper.
- A Walk with Houellebecq. Published at The Golden West Review, April 22, 2012.
- This is the best book review I have ever written. Houellebecq was a favorite of mine, and this article reviews his corpus.
- Meet the Piggies. Published at The Golden West Review, March 29, 2012.
Oldest — I first moved to Seattle to work as the news intern for The Stranger, the local alt weekly. I loved that job and improved a lot as a writer. Just know that these articles are often irreverent and may contain vulgar language. I was an angry young man.
- King County Bans Water Vapor to Protect Us From…What? Published on Slog, the blog of The Stranger, December 17, 2010.
- Last Weekend, a Liquor Control Officer and I Cruised Bars Looking for Illegal Activity. Published on Slog, the blog of The Stranger, December 16, 2010.
- This article was a lot of fun to write. I did a ride-along with a Washington liquor cop!
- Whatever Happened to Public Access TV. Published on Slog, the blog of The Stranger, December 10, 2010.
- Killed in Broad Daylight. Co-written with Eli Sanders and published in The Stranger, November 25, 2010.
- This article represents my most bizarre claim to fame as a writer: that I have a co-writer credit with a Pulitzer Prize winner.
- My National Opt-Out Day at SeaTac. Published on Slog, the blog of The Stranger, November 25, 2010.
- Liquor Officers Gone Wild. Published in The Stranger, November 11, 2010.
- This article is racy and vulgar, so approach with caution. It’s the best print piece I wrote for The Stranger.
- Rally to Restore Sanity, Seattle Edition. Published on Slog, the blog of The Stranger, October 29, 2010.
- MoveOn’s Aging Hippies Rally Against Corporate Spending. Published on Slog, the blog of The Stranger, October 12, 2010.
- “Our Justice System is Not for Sale,” Assert Anti-CJE Lawyers. Published on Slog, the blog of The Stranger, October 5, 2010.
School
- “When Bollywood Met Bolshevism: Understanding the popularity of Indian cinema in the Soviet Union.” Published in spring 2008.
- Alas, you won’t find this one online–it’s my M.A. thesis and that’s just a link to the record in the Ohio State University library catalog so you know it’s real. You’ll have to go to Columbus or beg me if you want to read it.
- It was a fun thesis to write. I got to do a lot of inter-library loan requests to borrow old Bollywood movies from colleges across the country so I could watch them and call it research. I was trying hard to pivot from Slavic Studies to the history of India and this thesis was the best attempt I could summon.
Unpublished
- Childhood, Boyhood, Youth. Manuscript of a novel.
- I spent large parts of the years 2011-2014 at desks in various Seattle public libraries trying to write a novel.