I have been trying to learn how to write accessible prose for the general educated public. I am not much good at it. I am a “100 balls in the air” kind of writer, trying to juggle everything, equilibrating a host of relevant factors in constructing plausible interpretations of complex subject matters. By contrast, popular, accessible writing is linear and sequential, like beads on a string: it deals with one theme at a time and shows how each fits the thread of an accumulating argument. Ultimately, I aim to be able to write both ways, and to move freely back and forth between the two approaches as needed.

The books in the Outreach Series that are published or in preparation are below. Note that any published books have their own pages, accessible through the menu system.

• Lost in the Middle? Claiming an Inclusive Faith for Christians Who Are Both Liberal and Evangelical (Alban Institute, 2009)
• Found in the Middle! Theology and Ethics for Christians Who Are Both Liberal and Evangelical (Alban Institute, 2009)
• Origins & Destinies, a volume in the Science and the World’s Religions series, edited with Patrick McNamara (Praeger, 2012)
• Persons & Groups, a volume in the Science and the World’s Religions series, edited with Patrick McNamara (Praeger, 2012)
• Religions & Controversies, a volume in the Science and the World’s Religions series, edited with Patrick McNamara (Praeger, 2012)
• God Is: Meditations on the Mystery of Life, the Purity of Grace, the Bliss of Surrender, and the God Beyond God (in preparation)
• Liberal and Conservative: The Science and Spirituality of Religious Ideology (in preparation)
• Revolutionary Pastoral Care: New Insights from the Sciences and Theology (in preparation)
• The Neglected Craft of Radical Peacemaking: Reflections on the Ethics of Jesus and Gautama (in preparation)
• Fragments: Readings and Reflections for Lent or Any Time (completed; under consideration)
• The Future of Religious Experience (in preparation)