Work

Recent/Notable

Why Won’t Policymakers Talk More About Drugs and Homelessness? in Zocalo, May 23, 2022

Drugs Are Fueling Urban Crime. Will Democrats Pay Attention? in Bloomberg Opinion, April 19, 2022

California’s Wildfire Dilemma: Put Houses or Forests First? in Bloomberg Opinion, Oct. 13, 2021

How the Pandemic Radicalized Evangelicals in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Aug. 15, 2021

To Help Rural America, Forget the Red/Blue Divide in Bloomberg Opinion, July 4, 2021

Derrick Shields, A More Perfect Union, Guideposts, Feb. 2021

Christy Johnson, Love Wins, Guideposts, Feb. 2020

Jim Hinch, A Message of Hope, Guideposts, Dec. 2019

111th St. Jesus: The Art and Faith of Muralist Kent Twitchell in Image, Fall 2014. View as pdf

Evangelicals Are Changing Their Minds on Gay Marriage in Politico Magazine, July 7, 2014 (cover story)

Illegally Brilliant: A California Dreamer at Berkeley in Boom: A Journal of California, Spring 2014. View as pdf

The Real Imams of O.C. in The Orange County Register, Jul. 22, 2013

Why Stephen Greenblatt is Wrong — And Why It Matters in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Dec. 1, 2012

No Mr. Popularity in The Orange County Register, Feb. 24, 2005

State Prison Reform Proving Elusive in The Orange County Register, Dec. 26, 2004

Governor Has Dream Money Machine in The Orange County Register, June 27, 2004

Arnold Classic Just Won’t Be the Same in The Orange County Register, Feb. 22, 2004

Mater Dei’s Image Tested in The Orange County Register, Sept. 14, 2003

Pastor a Man on a Mission in The Orange County Register, May 25, 2003

Guideposts (edited)

Kate Bowler, A Question of Faith, Guideposts, Sept. 2018

James Choi, Faithonomics, Guideposts, Aug. 2018

Jim Powell and Kamil Mufti, Love Thy Neighbor, Guideposts, July 2018

Jan Rader, We Will Never Give Up, Guideposts, Feb. 2018

David Beddoe, Out of the Shadows, Guideposts, Jan. 2018

Religion

Did the Pandemic Rejuvenate Christianity? in Zocalo Public Square, July 28, 2021

Evangelicals Are Losing the Battle for the Bible. And They’re Just Fine With That in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Feb. 15, 2016

A New African Revival Comes to Orange County in Boom: A Journal of California, Winter 2015

Forty Years’ War in The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 24, 2015

Religious Freedom Advocates Turn from Ballot to Courtroom in The Orange County Register, Mar. 15, 2014

The Decline of the Revival in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Feb. 13, 2014

Religious Teaching and Prayers Just Part of a Day’s Work for Mosque Leader in The Orange County Register, Feb. 7, 2014

Where are the People? Evangelical Christianity in America is Losing Its Power. What Happened to Orange County’s Crystal Cathedral Shows Why in The American Scholar, Winter 2014 (cover story)

How on Earth Did Crystal Cathedral Go Catholic? in Zocalo Public Square, Oct. 25, 2103

Speaking up for a Seat at the Table in The Orange County Register, Oct. 21, 2013

Sexual Evolution Arrives at Church in The Orange County Register, Sept. 23, 2013

Group Says Immigrants Mistreated in O.C. in The Orange County Register, Aug. 7, 2013

Gay Students Speaking Out at Christian Schools in The Orange County Register, Jun. 29, 2013

O.C. Exports Asian-American Churches to the World in The Orange County Register, Jan. 27, 2013

Youth Increasingly Seeking New Salvation in The Orange County Register, Dec. 12, 2012

Genesis for a Bishop in The Orange County Register, Dec. 9, 2012

Effort to Reach Out to Muslims Stirs Outcry in The Orange County Register, Mar. 11, 2012

Rick Warren Builds Bridge to Muslims in The Orange County Register, Feb. 26, 2012

California and the West

Lost on the Pacific Crest Trail in The Los Angeles Review of Books, July 25, 2013

Brilliance Documented: Terrence Park is a top math student at UC Berkeley. He’s on his way to Harvard. And he’s in the country illegally in The Orange County Register, Apr. 21, 2013.

Mogul of the Fanboys in The Orange County Register, Dec. 2, 2012

O.C.’s Saigon? Nothing Little About It in The Orange County Register, Nov. 1, 2012

Parched in Pinnacles in The Orange County Register, Aug. 16, 2012

Pay Me No Mind in Boom: A Journal of California, Winter 2011. View as pdf

Paz Americana in DoubleTake, Spring/Summer 2007. View as pdf

Art/Culture

Walking Mural: Asco and the End of Chicano Art in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Aug. 23, 2012

Corona de Espinas in Image, Spring 2012. View as pdf

A Spade is Not a Spade in Image, Fall 2011. View as pdf

Medium Size Me in Gastronomica, Fall 2008. (Selected for Best Food Writing 2009). View as pdf