Books
Give YourSelf Permission Anthology (2016)
Understanding Your Friendships
Saying 'No"
Sharing the Wisdom of Time by Pope Francis and Friends (2018)
Undaunted Joy (Zondervan 2025)
Podcast Appearances
10/25/2023 Performance Anxiety Spotify Apple
10/26/2023 Scandal of Reading Podcast
11/13/2023 Evening Magic
3/4/2024 The Thing With Feathers with Courtney Ellis Apple
Essays/Articles
9/6/2016 Don't Start the Day Overwhelmed: 3 Tips For a Better Morning
America Magazine- A Jesuit Review
8/24/2017 Why I taught my kids to call our homeless neighbors ‘Peace Men’
3/28/2021 The Weight of Attending Mass for Those Who Cannot
8/18/2022 The Prayers of My Junior High Math Teacher Have Sustained Me Far Beyond My School Years.
4/13/2023 Love Breaks Through
Barren Magazine
3/7/2020 I Know How I’ll Die
12/15/2015 Searching for Advent Hope
3/2/2016 Answer to An Angry Prayer
3/10/2016 Lent: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
4/11/2016 An Unexpected Blessing
4/19/2016 Sia: Modern Psalmist
5/17/2016 Cheering For Each Other: What the Eucharist Reminds Us About Connection
5/26/2016 Who Decides Who's Worthy?
9/7/2016 Sowing Seeds of Faith
9/14/2016 The Gift of Silence in the Morning
11/9/2016 How to Plan a Personal Spiritual Retreat
3/20/2017 Experiencing God's Love Through the Splendor of Creation
3/27/2017 Burying the Alleluia
5/31/2017 Pentecost: The Soul’s Most Welcome Guest
7/19/2017 My Virtual Camino: Celebrating the Feast of St. James in My Own Backyard
9/6/2017 Learning Grace from a Homeboy
9/27/2017 St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Inspiring Us to Share Our Faith Stories
12/8/2017 Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Joy of Knowing Her Son
4/30/2018 How Finding a Spiritual Director Changed My Life
6/27/2018 How to Intentionally Plan a Day of Rest
9/10/2018 How I Started Praying the 23rd Psalm With My Kids
11/5/2018 Lessons on Gratitude From A Leper
6/13/2019 How I Learned to Let Go of My Worries on Vacation
11/13/2019 Ebenezer: Marking God’s Protection with a ‘Stone of Help”
4/24/2020 God Shows Up in the Sunrise
6/17/2020 Picture This: Using Art as a Path to the Holy Spirit
2/1/2021 Christ’s Presentation in the Temple: A Light for All of Us
4/9/2021 What St Paul Can Teach Us About Christian Joy
6/2/2021 How We Can Be a Blessing to Others
7/12/2021 What Does It Mean to Be Content
9/16/2022 Clothed in Humility
Catholic News Services-Faith Alive
12/17/2017 My Soul Rejoices Through The Darkness
1/6/2018 My Gift to a King
3/23/2018 Holy Week: The Week We Live at Church
5/11/2018 Engaged Couples: Pray Together with the Bible
5/31/2018 Books For Spiritual Summer Reading List
11/20/2018 Three Advent Traditions to Slow You Down
12/1/2018 A Familiar Comfort From Our Lady Of Guadalupe
4/9/2019 A Guided Meditation on Christ’s Last Words
5/22/2019 Anticipating Pentecost: ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’
9/3/2019 Our Guardian Angels
11/20/2019 Advent Meditation: Dreaming with St Joseph
12/16/2019 Gerrit Van Honthorst’s ‘Adoration of the Child’
1/08/2020 An Unlikely Location for a Lesson on the Holy Spirit: In the Back of a Taxi
2/16/2020 Fear of the Lord is about Love
2/19/2020 Ash Wednesday: Making the Lenten Journey as a Family
4/6/2020 Fra Angelico’s “The Entombment of Christ”
4/6/2020 Brief Biography of Master Artist Raphael
5/20/2020 St. Joan of Arc’s mission as portrayed by artist Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
6/9/2020 Catholics are People Who Wait
9/6/2020 Finding and Keeping Faith During a Pandemic
10/18/2020 All Soul’s Day: Reflections, Traditions, Prayers
12/1/2020 A Collection of Advent Poems
12/20/2020 Meditating on Giorgione’s ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’
2/10/2021 Ash Wednesday: Guided by St Clare of Assisi
3/30/2021 Rembrandt’s Crucified Christ
4/27/2021 Pandemic Parenting Requires a New Narrative
6/20/2021 The Year We All Became Bird Watchers: Writer Brian Doyle Finds God in Birds
10/15/2021 World Mission Sunday: Tell Your Story
11/6/2021 Thanksgiving: A Spiritual Exercise
11/22/2021 On Advent Waiting; Wisdom from G.K. Chesterton
12/20/2021 O Holy Night: A Carol for the Weary
2/4/2022 Because He First Loved Us, Show Mercy
3/10/2022 Come Thou Found of Every Blessing
4/14/2022 A Study of “Christ in Limbo”
4/28/2022 Joy Can Follow Suffering
6/15/2022 Uwen Akpan’s “Say You’re One of Them”
12/1/2022 Advent Hymn ‘Lo How A Rose E’er Blooming’ speaks to our anticipation.
1/18/2021 Andrew Wyeth’s Snow Hill and the Subjects of Art
7/26/2021 First Art Love
12/7/2021 A Luminous Invitation: The Transformative Art of Barbara Earl Thomas
10/6/2021 On Bending the World to Our Vision
8/21/2020 The Moment of Inhale
12/7/2020 In the Dark
4/25/2023 Finding Freedom in a Crowded House
12/10/2019 Mind Games
6/10/2020 Show and Tell
Genealogies of Modernity
5/6/2021 Power Made Perfect in Weakness
Fall 2015 Issue Give YourSelf Permission to Enjoy Friendships
(PDF also available upon request)
11/09/2021 Listen to Your Inner Voice
11/22/2021 Noisy Praise
3/8/2022 When Your Life is in Ruins, Simple Companionship is Such a Gift
6/24/2022 A Letter to Say ‘Thanks’ to the Workers Building Skyscrapers
9/7/2022 Slow Down Your Day With These 3 Practices
10/11/2022 A Space Where Strangers Become Friends
11/1/2022 A Place to Come Home to
12/13/2022 Why I’m Most at Home in a Library
Ignatian Spirituality
4/9/2018 The Light of Grace is Always Shining
7/11/2018 Finding God in the Birds
10/19/2018 Imaginative Prayer: Lunch with Christ
2/6/2019 Waving to a Stranger
4/15/2019 Lamentations: The Weight of Grief
6/10/2019 Four Hidden Places I’ve Found God
8/9/2019 Sharing a Moment with a Stranger on Vacation
10/21/2019 To Give and Not Count the Cost
1/6/2020 Small Changes for a Big Year: Choose Silence
1/29/2020 Finding God in Sunshine
4/13/2020 Living a Resurrection Life
5/24/2020 Waiting for the Spirit: John Singleton Copley’s The Ascension
7/29/2020 The Hope of Sidewalk Victory Gardens
8/10/2020 Summer Prayer
9/21/2020 Prayers Before Zoom School
9/28/2020 Receive My Memory
10/23/2020 Everything is Precious
11/16/2020 Permission to Notice
1/4/2021 Hope for 2021 and the Love of God
2/15/2021 What Would You Ask God?
4/16/2021 Our Neighbor
5/10/2021 Screen Time and St. Ignatius
6/9/2021 Strangers and the Funny Papers
7/2/2021 Cannonball Moment: A Friend’s Death
8/6/2021 A Gentle Saint; St Peter Faber
9/8/2021 Middle School
9/27/2021 A Discipline of Noticing
10/28/2021 Finding God in the Present Moment
11/29/2021 Quiet Lives
12/17/2021 Praying the O Antiphons
1/21/2022 Relationships and the Examen
2/25/2022 When We Ask For Light
5/9/2022 Why God Makes Us Wait
6/3/2022 Grace at Rock Bottom
7/25/2022 Seeing Like Jesus
8/22/2022 A Sense of Serenity
9/21/2022 No Guarantees
10/14/2022 Choosing Joy
11/9/2022 Getting in Shape
12/23/2022 Christmas Storytelling
1/16/2023 Joy in January
2/17/2023 Fearless
5/17/2023 The Grace of a Cheerful Heart
6/9/2023 Disappointing Photo
7/10/2023 My Daily Walk with a Person for Others
8/18/2023 Abundance in Late Summer
9/27/2023 Attuning to God’s Voice Within
10/12/2023 Letter to God in the Fall
12/8/2023 Annunciation
1/3/2024 Word for the New Year: Love
Image Journal’s Good Letters Blog
12/17/2019 Jagged Prayers
12/2/2022 Heroes of the Ignatian Tradition -Brian Doyle
3/20/2023 “Tremble” and “What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth Grade”
8/28/2018 Creating Space for Silence
11/1/2019 Family Thanksgiving Rituals
12/4/2019 Our Happy Jar and a New Year’s Fresh Start
2/1/2020 Sharing Love on Valentine’s Day
Lent 2020 Finding God Newsletter
5/13/2020 Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
5/5/2023 The Human Body Shares in the Dignity of the Image of God
2/5/2022 Ice Cube’s ‘Good Day’ Taught Me to How to Pray the Examen
4/27/2018 Catholic Voices: Make a Joyful Noise!
1/1/2020 Prayer Without Ceasing Through the Psalms
3/4/2020 Words Matter
4/1/2020 Daydreaming about God
5/1/2020 Holy Spirit Still Breathes Fire
6/1/2020 Resisting a Spirit of Fear
7/1/2020 In Times of Suffering, Christ’s Love Strengthens Us
9/1/2020 Finding Meaning in Laundry and Dishes
10/1/2020 How Can I Keep From Singing?
11/1/2020 Memento Mori: Confronting Death to Live Well.
12/1/2020 Imagining the Infant Christ
1/1/2021 Finding God in Silence
3/1/2021 Let’s Not Be Stingy With Our Kindness
4/1/2021 Anger is Not a Fruit of the Spirit
5/1/2021 Let Us Not Grow Weary of Doing Good
6/1/2021 Grace in Laughter
7/1/2021 Growing Stronger in Body, Mind and Spirit
9/1/2021 What is my Identity?
10/1/2021 What Does Love Mean?
12/1/2021 Healing Hospitality
2/1/2022 Wrap Each Other in Courage
4/1/2022 Guard Your Heart and Mind
6/1/2022 Called to be Holy
8/1/2022 I Didn’t Want to Forgive
10/1/ 2022 We Need To Be Community Again
12/1/2022 Let the Tenderness of Christ Transform Us
2/1/2023 Marriage: A Sacrament of Surrender
4/1/2023 The Clarity that Comes with Silence
Our Sunday Visitor
5/11/2023 We’re Not that Kind of Parish
1/30/2017 5 Tips for Getting (and Keeping!) Kids Excited about Art Museums
6/17/2019 A Friendship Formed in Silence
10/16/2020 Second Degree Joy
2/7/2019 Waiting in Liminal Space
3/10/2020 The Annunciation
8/18/2020 Trumpet Joy
St James Cathedral Seattle
5/25/2020 The Body of Christ Speaks: Where Did You Find Joy?
8/25/2016 Making a Scene
9/15/2016 Coloring Robots
12/7/2016 Making Up For the Past
4/10/2017 Power in Motherhood: Monsters
1/1/2020 Prayer of Thanks for the Drive Through Car Wash
5/1/2020 Struggling with Anger? God Gives You the Tools You Need
5/1/2020 Real Presence is the Heart of Catholicism
5/29/2020 Book Review: Spiritual Conversations with Children
8/1/2020 Find God Everywhere with Writer Brian Doyle
10/30/2020 Book Review: Stories of the Saints
3/1/2021 Book Review: Awakened By Death
1/1/2022 Book Review: The Defiant Middle
11/4/2022 Book Review: The School for Good Mothers
12/5/2020 Dios Mio (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)