Creating connections between language, medicine, faith and the world we share.
Currently I am…
waiting for the copy editors to finish the manuscript of my book on The Scarlet Letter as Hawthorne’s challenge to the American church: Reading Like a Serpent
putting the finishing touches on Patient Poets, a book about what we can learn from poetry by people with chronic or terminal illness
working happily with pre-health professionals at UC Davis and with med students in at UC Berkeley
preparing for a semester of short teaching assignments in Italy, Princeton, Vancouver, and Lake Tahoe
speaking here and there on my recent book, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies.
leading workshops and retreats on a variety of topics, listed on the “retreats” page.
See my reviews and articles in The Christian Century, Sojourners, Prism, Christianity Today, and Weavings
