books
Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence and Place in the Digital Age. 6th Printing, InterVarsity Press Academic, November 2021.
Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009.
essays and blog posts
“Confronting Loneliness in the Age of AI Companions,” BioLogos, July 2, 2026.
Review of Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine: “The Tragedies of Longing for Home,” Mere Orthodoxy, November 19, 2025.
Review of Allison Pugh’s The Last Human Job: “Aching to Be Seen,” Current, October 18, 2024.
“Patience as a Form of Resistance,” Salvation Army’s The War Cry, May 2024. Higher Goals Award 2025, 3rd place in Article Series, Evangelical Press Association.
Review of Anton Barba-Kay’s A Web of Our Own Making: “How Technology Works on Us,” Current, March 15, 2024.
“It’s Time to Be Wrong and Make Things Right,” Current, September 15, 2022.
“The Unbearable Lightness of the First TikTok War,” Current, March 25, 2022.
“Are You Exhausted by your Phone?” Common Good Magazine, March 24, 2022.
Review of Andy Crouch’s The Life We’re Looking For, “Impoverishing Ourselves to Get the Job Done,” Local Culture: A Journal of the Front Porch Republic, Civil Dissent Vol. 4 no. 1, Spring 2022.
“Four Ways to Do Better when You Want to Deliver a Harsh Comment Online,” Christianity Today’s The Better Samaritan, January 25, 2022.
“Locked In, Cradle to Grave,” Current, November 1, 2021.
academic articles and book chapters
“The Casualties of AI as Human Substitute,” Christian Wisdom for the Age of AI, Ed. Derek C. Schuurman, Intervarsity Press Academic, Forthcoming July 2027.
“Ellul’s Ethics of Non-Power in a Digital World of Technique and Productivity,” Questioning Technology with Jacques Ellul, Ed. David W. Gill, Pickwick Publications, 2025.
“Devices and Desires: The Hazards of Digital Formation,” The Necessity of Character: Moral Formation and Leadership in Our Time, Finstock & Tew, 2024.
“The Serious Business of Mommy Blogging.” Contexts. [Quarterly magazine published by the American Sociological Association for general readers.] August 2016: 15(3).
“Online Product Research as a Labor of Love: Motherhood and the Social Construction of the Baby Registry.” Co-authored with N. Paul, Information, Communication & Society. 2015: 19(7), 892-906.
“Women, Pregnancy, and Health Information Online: The Making of Informed Patients and Ideal Mothers.” Co-authored with J.E. West, L. Lundy and N.S. Dahmen. Gender & Society. 2012: 26 (5), 773-798.
“Theorizing Web 2.0: A Cultural Perspective.” Information, Communication and Society. 2010: 13(2), 249-275.
