I am a writer and associate editor for Sojourners magazine. In my bi-monthly column “A Way Home” I write about nature, parenting, faith, and culture. You can read all of my Sojourners articles here including a tribute to Bernice Johnson Reagon, interview with artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar and actress Aunjanue Ellis Taylor, and a story about reparations for the Linnentown neighborhood in Athens, Georgia.
“The Path of Resistance,” The Bitter Southerner, in partnership with the Southern Environmental Law Center, September 2022.
Alabama Dreaming with Imani Perry, interview and review of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, The Bitter Southerner, March 2022
Documenting the Delta The Sunflower County Film Academy is building a new generation of visual storytellers in the Mississippi Delta. The Bitter Southerner February 2022
Fair Time The Bitter Southerner Issue No. 2, Fall 2021
The Sound and The Fury of Jericho Brown, The Bitter Southerner, June 2020. This article was one of the Top Five Longreads of The Week in June 2020.
Valerie June’s Mindful Medicine, The Bitter Southerner Issue No. 1, March 2021.
“Reckoning with Racism: Mississippi Displays its Wounds” The Christian Century, January 2019, Associated Church Press 2019 Awards, Honorable Mention for Feature Article, Longform.
WHY I BROUGHT MY CHILDREN TO THE MONTGOMERY LEGACY MUSEUM, Sojourners 2018
