Selected Writing
BOOKS
Showing: What Pregnancy Tells Us about Being Human (Eerdmans, 2020)
Disoriented: Embodied Life in Strange Times (Cascade, 2026)
OTHER WRITING
“Natality and Vocation,” in Studies in Vocation and Calling (March 2026)
“Gather Up the Leftovers,” in Christian Scholars Review blog (June 2025)
“Opting Out of Mother’s Day,” Comment (May 2023)
“Where Neither Choice Nor Life Prevails,” Comment (November 2022)
“What Age Should Kids Start Doing Chores? Younger Than You Think,” The Boston Globe Magazine (May 2022)
“From Mom to Mom” Commonweal ((May 2021).
“Changing Expectation: Prenatal Care and the Creation of Healthy Pregnancy,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (July 2020).
“A Higher Middle Way: Birth Philosophy at the Catholic Maternity Institute, 1944-1969,” U.S. Catholic Historian (Winter 2021).
“What Catholic Midwives Can Teach Us about Labor and Delivery,” U.S. Catholic (February 2021)
“Anything But Passive, Pregnancy Deserves Awe,” U.S. Catholic (January 2021)
“Why ‘Ditch the Deli Meat’ and Other Prohibitions Miss the Point of Pregnancy,” Christianity Today Online (July 2020)
“Out of My Senses: A Coronavirus Diary,” Commonweal Online (April 2020)
“All in the Family: Making Over Motherhood for Mutual Flourishing,” The Cresset (Trinity 2019).
“An Order for Delivery,” UTNE Reader (Spring 2018).
“Women and Children Last: Why Republicans Are Wrong on Prenatal Care,” Commonweal (May 2017).
“From Rubella to Zika: New Lessons from an Old Epidemic,” Commonweal (March 2016).
“Put Them to Work,” The Boston Globe Magazine (March 2013)
“Why Cook Dinner?” The Cresset (Lent 2007).