Alum Publications by Name

Below is a list of alum publications, organized alphabetically by last name.

Kathryn B. Alexander (PhD, '13), Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature (Fortress Press, 2014).

Peter Ajer (PhD, '14), The Death of Jesus and the Politics of Place in the Gospel of John (Pickwick Publications, 2016).

José E. Balcells Gallarreta (PhD, '15), Household and Family Religion in Persian-Period Judah: An Archaeological Approach (SBL Press, 2017).

Whitney Bauman (PhD, '07), Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic (Columbia University Press, 2014); Whitney Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon II, and Kevin J. O'Brien, eds., Inherited Land: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology (Pickwick Publications, 2011).

Sharon Betsworth (PhD, '07), The Reign of God is Such as These: A Socio-Literary Analysis of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark (T & T Clark, 2010).

Kirk A. Bingaman (PhD, '00), The Power of Neuroplasticity for Pastoral and Spiritual Care (Lexington Books, 2014).

Matt Boswell (PhD, '16), The Way to Love: Reimagining Christian Spiritual Growth as the Hopeful Path of Virtue (Cascade Books, 2018).

Alexander Blair (PhD, '84), Christian Ambivalence Toward Its Old Testament: Interactive Creativity Versus Static Obedience (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2011).

Erin Brigham (PhD, '10), See Judge Act: Catholic Social Teaching and Service Learning (Anselm Academics, 2018); Sustaining the Hope for Unity: Ecumenical Dialogue in a Postmodern World (Liturgical Press, 2012).

Sean D. Burke (PhD, '09), Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch: Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts (Fortress Press, 2013).

Douglas Burton-Christie (PhD, '88), The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology (Oxford, 2012).

Colleen Calmann (MA, '05), The Musical Adventures of Molly DeForrest (SageLeaf Books, 2024).

Woody Carter (PhD, '94), Theology for a Violent Age: Religious Beliefs Crippling African American Youth (iUniverse.com, 2010).

Joseph Cheah (PhD, '04) and Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Theological Reflections on Gangnam Style: A Racial, Sexual, and Cultural Critique (Palgrave Pivot, 2014); Joseph Cheah, Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Levi Checketts (PhD, '18), Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty (1517 Media, 2024).

Hal Childs (PhD '98) God’s Autopsy and the Living Truth of Soul: A History of Western Consciousness (Wipf & Stock, 2022).

Robert Collie (ThD, '70) and Annelie Collie, The Apostle Paul and Post-Traumatic Stress: From Woundedness to Wholeness (Fairway Press, 2011).

Steven Danver (MA, '94) and John Burch, Encyclopedia of Water Politics and Policy in the United States (CQ Press, 2011).

Elizabeth Drescher (PhD, '08), Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Life of America's Nones (Oxford University Press, 2016); Drescher and Keith Anderson, Click 2 Save: The Digital Ministry Bible (Morehouse, 2012); Drescher, Tweet If You ♥ Jesus: Practicing Church in the Digital Reformation (Morehouse, 2011).

Patricia Dutcher-Walls (ThD, '94), Reading the Historical Books: A Student's Guide to Engaging the Biblical Text (Baker, 2014). 

Kevin Fauteux (PhD, '82), Defusing Angry People: Practical Tools for Handling Bullying, Threats, and Violence (New Horizon Press, 2011).

Peter Feldmeier (PhD, '96), Encounters in Faith: Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue (Anselm Academic, Feb 2011); Feldmeier and Leo Lefebure, The Path of Wisdom: A Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada (Eerdmans, 2011).

Lauren Friesen (PhD, '85), Prairie Lands, Private Landscapes: Reframing a Mennonite Childhood (Archway Publishing, 2023); Anabaptist ReMix: Varieties of Cultural Engagement in North America (Peter Lang, 2022).

Lauren Friesen's (PhD '85), Theatre, Peace, Justice: Toward a Mennonite Dramaturgy (Pandora Press, 2024).

Brian Froese (PhD, '04), California Mennonites (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).

Frank Fromherz (PhD, '90), No Guilty Bystander: The Extraordinary Life of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton (Orbis, 2023); A Disarming Spirit: The Life of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen (Tsehai, 2018).

Matthew J. Gaudet (PhD '15), with Karen Lebacqz Eight Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics (Fortress Press, 2025); co-editor of Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations (Pickwick, 2024).

Steve Georgiou (PhD, '04), In the Beginning was Love: Contemplative Words of Robert Lax, 2nd ed. (Templegate, 2015).

Lynne Gerber (PhD, '09), Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America (University of Chicago, 2011).

Michelle Gonzalez (PhD, '01), Shopping: Christian Explorations of Daily Living (Fortress Press, 2010).

Cecilia González-Andrieu (PhD, '07), Teaching Global Theologies: Power and Praxis, coedited with Kwok Pui-Lan and Dwight Hopkins (Baylor University Press, 2015); Bridge to Wonder: Art as a Gospel of Beauty (Baylor UP, 2012).

Rebecca Gordon (PhD, '09), Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Brian Patrick Green (MA, '06; PhD, '13), contributor to Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations (Pickwick, 2024).

Yudit Kornberg Greenberg (PhD, '84), Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018); The Body in Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Max Hammer, with Barry J. Hammer (PhD, '92), and Alan C. Butler, Deepening Your Personal Relationships: Developing Emotional Intimacy and Good Communication (SBPRA, 2014); Hammer, Hammer, and Butler, Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation (SBPRA, 2014).

Chenxing Han (MA, '14), Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (North Atlantic Books, 2021); One Long Listening: A Memoir of Grief, Friendship, and Spiritual Care (North Atlantic Books, 2023).

David Phillips Hansen (PhD, '88), Native Americans, the Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice (Chalice Press, 2017).

Noreen Herzfeld (PhD, '00), The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age (Fortress Press, 2023); co-editor of Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations (Pickwick, 2024).

Kayko Driedger Hesslein (PhD, '14), Dual Citizenship: Two-Natures Christologies and the Jewish Jesus (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015).

Timothy Hessel-Robinson (PhD, '06) and Ray Maria McNamara, RSM (PhD, '06), Spirit and Nature: The Study of Christian Spirituality in a Time of Ecological Urgency (Pickwick Publications, 2011).

John C. Holt (MA, '73), ed., The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics, The World Readers Series (Duke University Press, 2011).

Jonathan Homrighausen (MA, '18), Illuminating Justice: The Ethical Imagination of The Saint John's Bible (Liturgical Press, 2018).

Christina Hutchins (PhD, '08), Tender the Maker (University Press of Colorado, 2015).

Micah T.J. Jackson (PhD, '12), Preaching Face-to-Face: An Invitation to Conversational Preaching (Church Publishing Incorporated, 2019). 

Kevin Kaatz (MA, '98), Early Controversies and the Growth of Christianity (Praeger, 2012).

Julius-Kei Kato (PhD, '06), Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016); How Immigrant Christians Living in Mixed Cultures Interpret Their Religion: Asian-American Diasporic Hybridity and Its Implications for Hermeneutics (Edwin Mellen Press, 2012).

Kevin Keating (MA, '75), Papal Teaching in the Age of Infallibility, 1870 to the Present: A Critical Evaluation with Historical Illustrations (Pickwick, 2018).

Heup Young Kim (PhD, '92) with Fumitaka Matsuoka (PSR emeritus), and Anri Morimoto, eds., Asian and Oceanic Christianities in Conversation: Exploring Theological Identities at Home and in Diaspora, Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations (Rodopi, 2011); A Theology of Dao (Orbis, 2017).

James Kraft (PhD, '01), The Epistemology of Religious Disagreement (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2012).

Robert Lassalle-Klein (PhD, '95), Blood and Ink: Ignacio Ellacuría, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central America (Orbis, 2014).

Richard Lindsay (PhD, '12), Hollywood Biblical Epics: Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the Silent Era to the Modern Day (Prager, 2015).

Jennifer Howe Peace (PhD, '05), co-editor, Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field (Beacon Press, 2018); Or Rose, and Gregory Mobley, My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation (Orbis, 2012). Contributors include: Judith Berling (GTU), Ibrahim Farajaje (SKSM), Charles Gibbs (CDSP MDiv), Rita Nakashima-Brock (SKSM), and Rebecca Parker (SKSM).

Margaret Miles (PhD, '77), Augustine on Beautiful Bodies, Nunc et Tunc (Wipf and Stock, 2024); Reading Augustine on Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation (Bloomsbury, 2021); The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries (Cascade Books, 2017); Beyond the Centaur: Imagining the Intelligent Body (Wipf and Stock, 2014); The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought (Wiley, 2005).

Sarah Mohr (MA, '09), Islamic Liberation Psychology: The Transformational Force of Self-Development, Community Empowerment, and Revolutionary Change (Routledge, 2024), Loving the Present: Sufism, Mindfulness, and Recovery from Addiction and Mental Illness (Wipf and Stock, 2022).

Michelle Mueller (Ph.D, '16), New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy: Polyamory, Polygamy, and Reality Television (Routledge, 2021). 

Debra Mumford (PhD, '07; MABL, '03), Exploring Prosperity Preaching: Biblical Health, Wealth, and Wisdom (Judson Press, 2012).

Thao Nguyen (PhD, '13), Asian Catholic Women: Movements, Mission, and Vision (2019).

Christine Valters Paintner (PhD, '04), Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal (Sorin Books, 2022); The Soul's Slow Ripening: 12 Celtic Practices for Seeking the Sacred (Sorin Books, 2018).

Nancy Pineda-Madrid (PhD, '05), Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juarez (Fortress, 2011).

Anathea E. Portier-Young (MA, '98), Apocalypse Against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism (Eerdmans, 2010).

Adam Pryor (PhD, '12), The Body of Christ Incarnate for You: Conceptualizing the God's Desire for the Flesh (Lexington, 2016); The God Who Lives: Investigating the Emergence of Life and the Doctrine of God (Pickwick Publications, 2014).

Martin Rawlings-Fein (PhD, '22) “The Righteous” in The Year of Mourning: A Jewish Journey, edited by Rabbi Lisa D. Grant (2022); Bisexual Visibility in Ruth, "On Gender, Generations, and Care,” in Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah (2022); "Choosing to Be Chosen": A Film Showing the Striking Similarities between Conversion and Transition,” in Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies: The Wisdom of Transkeit (2022); “Westward Amidah” and the “Blessing for the Bisexual Community,” in Mishkan Ga'avah: Where Pride Dwells (2020); "Hatafat Dam Brit (Extracting a Drop of Blood)," in Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community edited by Noach Dzmura (2010).

Judith Rock (PhD, '88), The Rhetoric of Death (Berkley Trade, 2010).

Pravina Rodrigues (PhD, '21), A Śākta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside-Down, Inside-Out (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).

Jaesung Ryu (PhD, '22), Distinct But Inseparable (Peter Lang, 2022).

Cia Sautter (PhD, '00), The Performance of Religion: Seeing the Sacred in Theater (Routledge, 2017); The Miriam Tradition: Teaching Embodied Torah (University of Illinois, 2010).

Kyle K. Schiefelbein-Guerrero (PhD '14), Church After the Corona Pandemic: Consequences for Worship and Theology (Springer, 2023).

Linda Seger (MA, '73; ThD, '76), Beyond Linear Thinking: Changing the Way We Live and Work (Red Typewriter Press, 2022).

Marilyn Sewell (PhD, '91), Raw Faith: Following the Thread (Fuller Press, 2014).

Andrea Sheaffer (PhD, '14), Envisioning the Book of Judith: How Art Illuminates Minor Characters (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014).

Alan Shore (PhD, '16), Uncommon Allies: American Jews and Christians Uniting Against Hitler, 1933-1945 (Syracuse University Press, 2024).

Harry H. Singleton III (PhD, '98), Divine Revelation and Human Liberation (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018). 

Emily Leah Silverman (PhD, '08), Edith Stein and Regina Jonas: Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death Camps (Equinox, 2012).

Susan Marie Smith (PhD, '02), Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual (Fortress Press, 2012); Christian Ritualizing and the Baptismal Process: Liturgical Explorations toward a Realized Baptismal Ecclesiology (Pickwick, 2011).

Janet Stickmon (MA, '99), Midnight Peaches, Two O'Clock Patience (Broken Shackle Publishing, 2012).

Laura Stivers (PhD, '00), Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches (Fortress, 2011).

Sandy Sullivan-Dunbar (MA, '03), Human Dependency and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Jonathan Tan (MA, '98), Christian Mission among the Peoples of Asia (Orbis, 2014). 

Jeanne Choy Tate (MA, '98), Something Greater: Culture, Family, and Community as Living Story (Pickwick Publications, 2013).

Wendy R. Terry (PhD, '07), A Companion to Marguerite Porete and the Mirror of Simple Souls (Brill, 2017), Terry and Robert Stauffer, eds.; Seeing Marguerite in the Mirror: A Linguistic Analysis of Porete's “Mirror of Simple Souls,” Studies in Spirituality Supplements 21 (Peeters, 2011).

Al Tizon (PhD, '05), Christ Among the Classes: the Rich, the Poor, and the Mission of the Church (Orbis, 2023); Whole & Reconciled: Gospel, Church, and Mission in a Fractured World (Baker Academic, 2018); Tizon, M. Sydney Park, and Soong-Chan Rah, eds., Honoring the Generations: Learning with Asian North American Congregations (Judson Press, 2012); Missional Preaching: Engage, Embrace, Transform (Judson Press, 2012).

Timothy Wadkins (PhD, '88), The Rise of Pentalcostalism in Modern El Salvador: From the Blood of the Martrys to the Baptism of the Spirit (Baylor Press, 2018). 

Dr. Alan Weissenbacher (PhD '17), The Brain Change Program: 6 Steps to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life (BroadStreet Publishing Group, 2024).

Dongsheng (John) Wu (PhD, '06), Understanding Watchman Nee: Spirituality, Knowledge, and Formation (Wipf & Stock, 2012).

Emily S. Wu (PhD, '10), Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States: In Search of Spiritual Meaning and Ultimate Health (Lexington Books, 2013).

Angela Yarber (PhD, '10), Holy Women's Icons (Parson's Porch Publishing, 2014); Dance in Scripture: How Biblical Dancers Can Revolutionize Worship Today (Cascade Books, 2013); The Gendered Pulpit: Sex, Body, and Desire in Preaching and Worship (Parson's Porch Books, 2013); Embodying the Feminine in the Dances of the World's Religions (Peter Lang Press, 2011).

Russell Yee (PhD, '97), Worship on the Way: Exploring Asian North American Experience (Judson Press, 2012).

Yeow Choo Lak (ThD, '71), Loving Hawai'i (Xulon Press, 2011).

Jeremy D. Yunt (MA), Faithful to Nature: Paul Tillich and the Spiritual Roots of Environmental Ethics (Barred Owl Books, 2017).