My Writing

Black and white, flatlay photograph of the book TIme and Despondency beside a cup of cappuccino and rustic, slat wood background.

If you’ve ever been sad and told to pray about it…

“If you’ve ever been sad and been told to pray about it, but didn’t know where to begin–if you’ve ever struggled or suffered and been told to have faith, but didn’t think you had the capacity to conjure that up–if you’ve ever wondered how Christianity can really represent the transformation of sorrow into joy and darkness into light, then this book may well change your life.”

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Read my Substack

Where I write about the intersections between trauma and lived faith.

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My full bibliography

A (probably?) up-to-date bibliography of where my long- and short-form writing has been published.

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Books I’ve written

Find all three of my books in various formats at Ancient Faith Publishing or wherever you get books!

Books I’ve contributed to

I’ve contributed to a growing number of books. Learn more about each by tapping the tiles below!

FAQ about My Writing


You’ve written a lot about time. Why is that?


Yes, I have written a lot about time. And even when I’m not writing explicitly about time, in my mind I’m often seeing connnections between various topics and temporality. In a way, time is related to everything we do, experience, and seek to lend meaning to in our lives. 

When you think about it, time is the thing that makes everything more difficult – and more beautiful. It would be so much easier to pray, to hold on to hope, to do the things that are difficult but good for our souls, if we didn’t have to do them for any length of time. It’s the endurance time requires that makes the good life hard to attain. But it’s also time – in its fleetingness – that makes the best things that much more beautiful and sacred.

For some reason time is just something that endlessly fascinates, inspires, mystifies, and enlivens me. When I think about writing on a given topic, I’m never just interested in that topic itself but how it relates to and is lived out in time. If my writing, and my faith, can’t apply to the temporal world in which we live, then I lose interest quickly. 

These days, I write a lot more about other topics. But in my heart of hearts, I’m still thinking about and wrestling with time most of the TIME.

How did you start writing?


Even when I was a little girl, I was fascinated by words and inspired by the act of bringing worlds and pictures into existence through my writing. There is something about putting one’s thoughts on paper that is so powerful – writing, too, offered me a space of safety and self-expression when other areas of my life felt uncomfortable. Growing up, I was often told that I was eloquent, articulate, and creative.

It wasn’t until graduate school, though, that I really began to realize I could actually write in a professional sense. More than any other single skill I gained in my doctorate, I am most grateful for the many opportunities I had to hone my nonfiction writing skills. Towards the end of my doctorate, I also began podcasting, which helped me further develop my voice and style as a communicator. This in turn led to the publication of my first book, Time and Despondency. Writing that book was such a meaningful experience that I decided to continue to focus more on spiritual writing moving forward.