Aflame but Unconsumed

(Kelsay Books, 2019)

Glimpses of Her Father’s Glory: Deification and Divine Light in Longfellow’s “Evangeline”

(Wipf & Stock, 2019)

Bad Things, Good People, and God: A Guide for Teens

(Church Publishing Inc., 2020)

Thoughts & Prayers

(Greenwillow Books, 2020)

We’ll Fly Away

(Greenwillow Books, 2018)

Meet Me Here

(Greenwillow Books, 2016)

No Parking at the End Times

(Greenwillow Books, 2015)

Keep and Other Stories

(Resource Publications 2022)

Hillbilly Hymn: A Faerie Tale

(Resource Publications 2022)

Servants and Fools: A Biblical Theology of Leadership

(Abingdon Press, 2015)

Living Into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions

(Brazos 2012)

Day by Day These Things We Pray: Uncovering Ancient Rhythms of Prayer

(Herald, 2010)

The Way is Made By Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago

(InterVarsity, 2007)

On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity

(Brazos 2022)

A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country

(Virtual Artists Collective, 2012)

Contributed to: Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony

(Lehigh UP, 2013)

“Everything Far Becomes Near”

(2011)

“Come and See,” The Best Women’s Travel Writing 

(Traveler’s Tales Guide, 2020)

The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other

(Broadleaf Books, 2020)

Co-authored with Sister Madonna Buder: The Grace to Race: The Wisdom and Inspiration of the 80-Year-Old World Champion Triathlete known as The Iron Nun

(Simon & Schuster, 2010)

The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past

(Penguin Putnam, 2000, 2001; revised new edition with TarcherPerigee, 2008)

Twirl: My Life with Stories, Writing & Clothes

(T. S. Poetry Press 2019)

The Teacher Diaries: Romeo & Juliet

(T. S. Poetry Press 2018)

Essays appear in: The Magic of Motherhood

(Zondervan, 2017)

Flood Patterns

(Antrim House Books, 2015)

“Common Prayer: Reflections on Episcopal Worship” 

*This is an essay in an anthology edited by Joseph S. Pagano and Amy E. Richter
Wipf and Stock, 2019

“The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers”

(W.W. Norton, 2018)

This Is My Body

(Lookout Books, 2019)

Contributed to: The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God

(Wipf & Stock Pub, 2010)

the Colored Page

(Sundress Publications 2022)

Dust and Ashes

(Califorinos Press, 2020)

Teaching While Black

(Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2020)

Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders

(HarperOne, 2015)

Rookie Dad: Thoughts on First-Time Fatherhood

(Zondervan, 2007)

Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things

(Thomas Nelson, 2013)

The Truest Thing about You: Identity, Desire, and Why It All Matters

(David C. Cook, 2014)

The Tank Man's Son: A Memoir

(Tyndale, 2015)

Herschend Family Values: Creating Memories Worth Repeating

(Herschend Studios)

Honestly: Getting Real About Jesus and Our Messy Lives

(NavPress, 2016)

Junkyard Wisdom: Resisting the Whisper of Wealth in a World of Broken Parts

(Deep River Books, 2016)

The Business of Faith: How to Lead Yourself, Unify Your Team, and Create a Remarkable Organization

(Elevate Culture, 2017)

Upward, Inward, Outward: Love God, Love Yourself, Love Others

(NavPress, 2017)

Salvaged: Leadership Lessons Pulled From the Junkyard by Roy Goble

(NavPress 2019)

The Rescuer: One Firefighter's Story of Courage, Darkness, and the Relentless Love That Saved Him

(Thomas Nelson, 2020)

Sugar Baby and Other Stories

(Independently Published 2021)

Contributed to The Spirit of Food

(Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010)

Featured in: Adam, Eve, and the Riders of the Apocalypse, edited by D. S. Martin

(Wipf and Stock, 2017)

Metropolia

(Ghostbird Press, 2021)

Brief Instructions

(Ghostbird Press, 2017)

Animal Heart

(Hyperborea Publishing, 2016)

“Concho Diary,” Short Stories by Texas Authors, Vol. 3

(Texas Authors, Inc., 2017)

“Malefic,” Growing Concerns

(Chupa Cabra House, 2014)

The Former Hero

(AEC Stellar Publishing, 2014)

The Hidden Hindenburg: The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies

(Lyons Press, 2020)

Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America

(Lyons Press, 2014)

The Sun Farmer: The Story of a Shocking Accident, A Medical Miracle and a Family's Life and Death Decision

(Ivan R. Dee, 2007)

The Habit of Hope

(Antrim House 2022)

Contributed to The Orison Anthology Vol. 4

(Orison Books, 2019)

The Practice of Devotion

(Goldfish Press, 2019)

The Dictator’s Mistress
(Alice Blue Books, 2012)

The Vanishings and Other Poems

(Calypso Editions, 2010)

Finding Livelihood: A Progress of Work and Leisure

(Kalos Press, 2015)

Delicate Machinery Suspended

(T.S. Poetry Press, 2011)

Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth, and Evil at the Movies

(Regal Books, 2007)

The Ale Boy’s Feast

(Random House – WaterBrook Press, 2010)

Raven’s Ladder

(Random House – WaterBrook Press, 2009)

Cyndere’s Midnight

(Random House – WaterBrook Press, 2008)

Auralia’s Colors

(Random House – WaterBrook Press, 2007)

Where Goodness Still Grows: Reclaiming Virtue in an Age of Hypocrisy

(Thomas Nelson, 2020)

Dangerous Territory: My Misguided Quest to Save the World

(Discovery House, 2017)

Nomad, Nomad

(Bound to Brew, 2021)

North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

(Zondervan/Harper Collins, 2013)

The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World

(Harvard Business Review Press, 2020)

The Little Book of Grit

(Blurb, 2019)

Rupture, Light

(Finishing Line Press, 2019)

Co-edited with Jill McKenna Reed: Winged: New Writing on Bees 

(Poulin Publishing, 2014)

A Patient Hunger

(Atmosphere Press 2022)

Bearing the Cast

(Saint Julian Press 2017)

Contributed to Saving Words: 20 Redemptive Words Worth Rescuing

(Cascade Books, 2021)

Goodbye, Little One: Through Deep Grief to Deep Life

(Two Worlds Media, 2015)

The Sabine Women

(Red Dragonfly Press, 2019)

I Love You I’m Leaving

(Big Table Publishing Company, 2018)

Goodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus

(University Alabama Press, 2020)

Magical Teaching

(Independently Published, 2019)

The Path to Peace: Experiencing God’s Comfort When You’re Overwhelmed

(Bethany House Publishers 2022)

Still Waiting: Hope for When God Doesn't Give You What You Want

(Tyndale, 2017)

Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn

(Cherry Grove Collections 2022)

Deep Pockets

(Saint Julian Press, 2018)

Watermarks

(Finishing Line Press, 2013)

Footsteps: Poems for Homeless Veterans

(Cave Moon Press, 2016)

Attending Others: A Doctor's Education in Bodies and Words

(Cascade Books, 2016)

Flesh Becomes Word

(Dos Madres Press, 2013)

Co-authored with Joel Shuman: Reclaiming the Body: Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine

(Brazos Press, 2006)

Poemographs: An Anthology

(Independently published, 2021)

Viral Verse: Poetry of the Pandemic

(Independently published, 2020)

Home By Another Road

(Independently published, 2019)

Burnt Offerings

(eLectio Publishing, 2014)

Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

(Broadleaf Books 2022)

Co-authored with Robert Joustra: How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World