Writing Memoir When I Spoke in Tongues “My Fundamentalist Childhood: Less Like a Temple, More Like a Cage” The Guardian “I Walked Away from My Pentecostal Faith to Live My Own Life and Nearly Lost Myself” Salon “Could I find myself again in Houston?” Houston Chronicle “What It’s Like to Be Rejected by Your Religious Family” Literary Hub Essays “Language in the Latter Days” Redivider “On The Far Side of the Fire: Life, Death, and Witchcraft on the Niger Delta” Ninth Letter “Father of Disorder” Ruminate Magazine & The Pushcart Prize “Ghost Language” (not available online) Sycamore Review & Wabash Nonfiction Award Articles “Great Literature Helped Me Escape My Fundamentalist Christian Past” Patheos “To Come Away Changed” Sojourners FollowFollowFollow Join My Newsletter Every month, I send out a short newsletter with some thoughts about the writing process, links to resources, book recommendations, and information about upcoming workshops or events. You can unsubscribe at any time. Success! Email Subscribe