Writing
Academic Publications
Publications which are available in full text are listed here. For a complete listing, see my CV.
- 2011
- Review of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760–1835 by Cedrick May, Journal of Southern Religion 13 (2011). web, PDF
- 2011
- Review of The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career, by T. A. Milford, Historical Journal of Massachusetts 39, nos. 1–2 (summer 2011), 265–66. PDF
- 2011
- Review of Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Army History 78 (winter 2011), 44–45. PDF
- 2010
- “Confessionalization and the Creedal Tradition,” The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (March 2010): 79-90. PDF
- 2009
- Review of In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Anti-evolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch, The Southern Historian 30 (spring 2009), 103–5. PDF
Newspaper Articles
- 3 Dec 2010
- Faith-based Tolerance, The Brandeis Hoot. PDF
Essays
These essays were originally published at various blogs and are now collected here.
- 02 Oct 2010
- What Is Secularization?
- 26 Sep 2010
- What's So Wrong with Myths?
- 10 Sep 2010
- Sacred Book, Sacred Space: My Attempt to Buy a Qur’an
- 02 Sep 2010
- Charles Taylor and the Sources of the Self
- 10 Aug 2010
- Religious Liberty and the Islamic Community Center
- 01 Jun 2010
- The Cultural History of American Fundamentalism: A Review Essay
- 29 Apr 2010
- Digital Humanities Is a Spectrum; or, We’re All Digital Humanists Now
- 11 Mar 2010
- What Would Jesus Do? A Parable About Copyright
- 26 Feb 2010
- Reflections on the Past's Digital Presence 2010
Reviews
These reviews were originally published at various journals and blogs and are now collected here.
- 25 Jan 2012
- Review of A Theology of Religious Change: What the Social Science of Conversion Means for the Gospel, by David J. Zehnder
- 10 Feb 2011
- Review of American Scriptures, edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
- 14 Oct 2010
- Review of All Can Be Saved, by Stuart B. Schwartz
- 21 Jul 2010
- Review of The Lives of David Brainerd, by John A. Grigg
- 05 May 2010
- Review of To Serve God and Wal-Mart, by Bethany Moreton
- 29 Aug 2009
- Review of Prodigal Nation, by Andrew R. Murphy
- 10 Jun 2008
- Review of The Metaphysical Club, by Louis Menand
ProfHacker Posts
These posts were published at ProfHacker, a blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education about “pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education.”
- 10 Feb 2012
- Take Better Notes by Paraphrasing
- 1 Feb 2012
- What Does Practice Look Like for You?
- 16 Dec 2011
- Get Statistics About How You Use E-mail to Use E-mail Less
- 13 Dec 2011
- Google Currents
- 29 Nov 2011
- GitHub for Mac
- 21 Nov 2011
- How to Disagree with Civility
- 17 Nov 2011
- Fix PDFs Quickly with pdftk
- 24 Oct 2011
- Getting Comfortable on the Command Line
- 20 Oct 2011
- Managing a Reading List
- 10 Oct 2011
- Taking Better Notes in Zotero
- 29 Sept 2011
- An Audience of (N)one
- 23 Sept 2011
- The ProfHacker Guide to the Command Line
- 13 Sept 2011
- Three Tech Tips for the Technophobe in You
- 18 Aug 2011
- How to Persuade—With Ethos, Pathos, or Logos?
- 12 Aug 2011
- Markdown: The Syntax You (Probably) Already Know
- 3 Aug 2011
- Using DocScanner to Scan on the Go
- 13 Jul 2011
- The Sociology of Academic Networks
- 26 Jan 2010
- Keeping Up with Journals