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)
The Wheel and the Clay (Ignatius Press 2026)
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
3/28/2025 Catholic Radio Morning Show
5/7/2025 Busted Halo Radio Show
5/13/2025 Writing for Your Life
5/19/2025 Dean Abbot Podcast
6/11/2025 AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
7/8 2025 The Thing with Feathers with Courtney Ellis
7/2/2025 Radio Maria England
9/9/2025 Beyond the Habit
10/1/2025 A Conversation with Kathryn Jean Lopez from National Review Culture Matters: It’s Okay to Be Joyful
10/3/2025 Word on Fire’s Votive Podcast with Haley Stewart
12/16/2025 Deacons Pod
2/5/2026 Believe to See
6/2/2026 The Cordial Catholic
6/30/2026 Anchored with Purpose
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.
1/16/2026 A Catholic Convert's Ecumenical Journey---and prayer for Christian Unity
Angelus
2/12/2026 A Glimpse of the Obscure Life of a Medieval English Anchoress
4/13/2023 Love Breaks Through
Barren Magazine
3/7/2020 I Know How I’ll Die
BibleGateway
4/15/2025 How to Live a Joy-Filled Life
4/2026 Cultivating Joy
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
6/25/2025 Learning to Embrace Silence
12/31/2025 What Passing the Peace Teaches Us About Connection and Community
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.
Catholic World Report
7/5/2026 Theology of the Body and The Reality of Our Mortality
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
FaithGateway
7/25/2025 The Source Of Joy
12/10/2019 Mind Games
6/10/2020 Show and Tell
Front Porch Republic
2/16/2026 A New Entry in the Canon of Orphan Literature
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
5/6/2024 Apostolic Joy
6/3/2024 God in the Details
7/22/2024 The Audacity of Creating Something Beautiful
9/9/2024 Finding God at the Airport
10/14/2024 The Family Cheerleader and God for Us
12/2/2024 He is Right Here
1/8/2025 Pilgrimage to a Monastery
2/11/2025 Everyday Moments or AI
5/15/2025 Stopping to Rest
6/9/2025 EveryDay Courage
7/11/2025 Redirecting Our Gaze to Hope
8/1/2025 The Gift of Prayer
9/3/2025 Kindness Eggs
9/26/2025 God’s Steadfast Love
10/20/2025 Jesus Wants All of Us
11/21/2025 Doing Advent Right
6/3/2026 Expressing Gratitude Through the Examen
7/1/2026 Finding God in an Art Gallery
8/28/2026 St Francis Xavier and Avoiding Spinning
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
2/2025 Reimagining Creativity (cover story for OSV magazine)
1/30/2017 5 Tips for Getting (and Keeping!) Kids Excited about Art Museums
Proverbs 31
8/4/2025 Happy is that People
Radiant Magazine
10/26/2024 Prayer Doesn’t Always Look How You Think It Should
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)