
When Insurance Denies Your Child’s Treatment
Christianity Today, January 2025
“The denial of an important medical claim, especially for a child, almost always causes a certain amount of freaking out..”

Blue Christmas is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Mockingbird, December 2024
“The Book of Common Prayer has no Order for Lament. We bumble our grief, and that is where Blue Christmas comes in.”

Advent Inadequacy, Bottom-Shelf Greenery
Mockingbird, December 2024
“Any greenery that I was going to come up with that day was going to be bottom-shelf. I considered my immediate options. I didn’t have the audacity to go out in daylight to forage among my neighbors’ shrubbery.”

Lessons in Crying
Plough Quarterly, October 2024
“If I tilted my head back, they streamed rather than dropped, wetting my collar and drying on my neck in an ashen coat.
I have not stopped crying since then.”

School Screens are Worst for the Least of These
Christianity Today, September 2024
“Screen-based learning creates an educational disparity for children who are especially vulnerable through no fault of their own. My son’s disability meant that he paid a higher price for the district’s laptop decision relative to his peers.”

“On Friendship: Seven Odes”
Mockingbird, June 2024
“Friends who ignore their need to be needy are not serious. It is stingy. Through it, we can invite our friends to be human and needy with us, and that is the best gift of all.”

“In Succor and Silence”
Christianity Today, May 2024
“I was hungry for God’s goodness and prayed continually for him do great things for us that we might be filled with joy.
Everything got worse.”

Review: Parenting by Holly Taylor Coolman
Englewood Review of Books, February 2024
Parenting is “pastoral, giving spiritual solace and empowerment to enthusiastic, bewildered, and despondent parents alike.”

‘Lord, When Did We See You in Foster Care?’
Christianity Today, January 2024
“Caring for vulnerable children is characteristic of the people of God. It also is formative: Caring for such children makes us more his people.”

“Friends, Mirrors, Prophets”
Plough Quarterly, October 2023
“Theologies of friendship sometimes treat it as a contingent relationship. Prophetic friendship shows that on the contrary, friendship is deadly serious, a matter of life and death.”

“My Life as a Gambler”
Image Journal, January 2023
“I had wagered more than I could afford to lose on the probability that God was a friend to the orphan and a protector of the vulnerable.”

“The Stranger in my House”
Plough Quarterly, December 2022
“Biblical visits by angels are rarely serene affairs. Angels often bring difficult news, messages of what God is doing to accomplish his will, and challenging directives. But angels are a visitation by God himself.”

Review: Anatomy of Anxiety
Englewood Review of Books, July 2022
“Anxiety is a case study in how our bodily health affects our thinking and beliefs, even our moral development.”
Wendy Kiyomi