Conversations, Essays, Letters, and Podcasts

CONVERSATIONS, INTERVIEWS, and PODCASTS

Ovid’s “The Art of Love” (Sacred and Profane Love podcast with Jennifer Frey, 22 March 2024)

Mary and the Saints (Talk at the St. Peter Catholic Student Center and Baylor University, 30 October 2023)

Baylor University Honors College Dante Project, Reflections on Purgatorio 22 (14 January 2022)

Classical Learning Test Journey Through the Author Bank: Virgil (12 November 2021)

A Conversation Between “Enemies” in the Abortion War (4 October 2018)

The Two Sides of Virgil (16 November 2017)

ESSAYS

Midlife Reflections of a Professor Mom (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 2 November 2023)

Classics and the Catholic Sensibility (Evangelization and Culture 17, Autumn 2023)

If You Want to Save Souls, Leave Bigger Tips (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 5 October 2023)

Vergil’s secret message (Aeon, 21 September 2023)

You Can’t Have a Telos of No (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 19 April 2023)

A Medicinal Warning for My Pro-Life Friends (Church Life Journal, 13 January 2023)

The Two Scandals of Christianity (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 20 September 2022)

Gabriel’s Hello (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 25 March 2022), = Gabriel’s Word to Woman (Church Life Journal, 25 March 2022)

“Friending” the Dead (Part 2): Friendship with the Living (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 13 January 2022)

“Friending” the Dead (Part 1) (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 12 January 2022)

American Idols: Review of George M. Marsden, The Soul of the American University Revisited (Christian Scholar’s Review, 28 October 2021)

Tactile Interface (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 12 October 2021)

Resisting Contraception and Resisting Vaccination (Church Life Journal, 14 September 2021)

Anger Reconsidered (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 31 August 2021)

On Humility, or, Christianity as Bull-dung (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 15 July 2021)

The Mystery of Miscarriage: Mary, Joseph, and the Theology of Pre-Natal Life (Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 4 June 2021)

Why Jesus Is a Joke: On the Coincidence of April Fools and Maundy Thursday, 2021 (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 1 April 2021)

Defamiliarizing Christianity (Christian Scholar’s Review Blog, 11 February 2021)

The Riddle at Cana: Mary and the Biblical Mystery (Church Life Journal, 17 November 2020)

Seeing Beyond Roe (Public Discourse, 29 October 2020)

With Michelle Oberman. Review of Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczor, Abortion Rights: For and Against (Cambridge, 2018). (Hypatia Reviews Online, 2019)

Gift-Motherhood, the Prius, and the Peace Corps: Reducing Abortion by Incentivizing Adoption (Public Discourse, 27 September 2017)

A Path to Détente in the War over Abortion (Public Discourse, 26 September 2017)

LETTERS

Re: James Kierstead, “No, Classics Shouldn’t ‘Burn'” (Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 March 2021)

Re: Thomas Groome, “Can Democrats Win Back Catholics?” (New York Times, 1 April 2017)

Re: Laura Enriquez, “Pro-Life But Left Out” (New York Times, 4 March 2017)