“‘The Still Small Voice’: Why It’s the Best Time of Year to Listen to Burl Ives”
The Oklahoman, 28 November 2021
“In Just Ten Years ‘The Book of Mormon’ Musical Has Gone From America’s Darling To America’s Latest Problem—The Inverse Of The Mormon Story”
Religion Dispatches, 28 September 2021
“Is Anything More American Than Oklahoma! In Oklahoma?”
Invited essay, Zócalo Public Square, 13 September 2021
“Sputtering Engines”
Op-Ed, The Oklahoman, 13 August 2021 (PDF here)
“What Kristin Chenoweth and the Tabernacle Choir Teach Us About America,” Wheat & Tares, 2 January 2020
“The Musical Theater of Our Political Theater,” The Oklahoman, 22 December 2019 (PDF here)
“Christmas is a Musical,” Musicology Now, 20 December 2019
“Mormon Pageants and the Performance of Whiteness,” Salt Lake Tribune, 11 November 2018 (PDF here)
“America Needs a Revolution in Listening,” The Oklahoman, 5 October 2018 (PDF here)
“The Miracle of ‘Mass’,” This Land, 22 December 2015