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ESPN
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 'I owe this man everything' (2019) view online or view PDF
New York Times
  • In Iceland, a Literary Tour Explores Rich History, (2015) PDF
  • In Haiti, Beauty that play hard to get (to), (2014) PDF
  • Backpack Trek: The Next Generation, (2004) PDF
  • A Fishing Trip With an Agenda, (2001) PDF
  • Learning To Take It Seriously, (2001) PDF
  • Finding Order Amid the Chaos, (1999) PDF
  • Families Learning of 39 Cultists Who Died Willingly, (1997) PDF
  • In Serene Setting in California, A Suicide Investigation Unfolds, (1997) PDF
  • Political Newcomer Wins Plum Role at a Convention, (1996) PDF
  • Engineer's Ice Plant Helps Power County, (1995) PDF
  • Looking for America, Greyhound Style, (1995) PDF
  • San Diego Newspaper Adjusts to Merger, (1992) PDF
San Diego Magazine
  • In Their Corner, (2019) PDF
  • The Prestigious Kyoto Prize Comes to San Diego, (2017) PDF
  • Get Inspired by the New Documentary Janey Makes a Play, (2016) PDF
  • Q&A: Anne Lamott, (2014) PDF
  • My Father the Hero, (2013) PDF
  • Inside Miles McPherson’s Rock Church, (2012) PDF
  • The Fantastic Mr. Fox: The former President of Mexico looks to San Diego for help in fixing his country, (2012) PDF
  • Who You Gonna Call?, (2008) PDF
  • Flashback to Bruges, (2008) PDF
  • The Uncivil War at City Hall, (2007) PDF
Westways
  • European Tour - Croatia & Montenegro, (2016)
  • Irish Adventure, (2014)
  • Waterworks: Serving others enriches a father and daughter’s trip to Guatemala, (2008)
San Diego Union Tribune
  • Essay: Looking back on 29 years of the nation’s greatest storytellers (2025) PDF
  • Kyoto Prize winner uses surreal art forms to make sense of the world’s ugly realities (2024) PDF
  • In her new novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni rediscovers India’s long lost queen (2022) PDF
  • Destin Daniel Cretton: the calm in the eye of the Hollywood storm (2021) PDF
  • Commentary: The gift within the quarantine (2020) PDF
  • Mother Teresa: A Myth, a Celebrity, or a Hero? (2016)
  • Holding the Powerful Accountable, (2009)
  • Some Perspective on Political Satire, (2008)
  • Citizen journalism: With all those cell phones out there, who needs journalists?, (2007)
  • Religion, science converge at conference - Dalai Lama a guest at Stanford, (2005)
  • COVERING KATRINA ...And some things they didn't, (2005)
  • Unspeakable act; loving response, (2002)
  • The media gag: Order likely to fuel speculation, rumor-mongering, (2002)
  • JOURNALISM ON THE ROCKS, (2000)
  • A free press and an informed public, (2000)
  • The lessons we are teaching our children, (1999)
  • Aid to China’s poor comes from Heart, (1997)
  • Relaxed dad glad he left driving to them, (1996)
  • Sing elders’ praises while they live, (1996)
  • Diving to the Titanic…first there were the ‘oohs and ahs’, (1986)
USA Today
  • Why certainty about God is overrated, (2011)
  • 'Holy' moments surround us, (2009)
Cincinnati Enquirer

Opinion: Sam Wyche Became My Coach For a Painfully Brief Time (2020) PDF

Quill
  • No Danger With Strangers - Conduct and Prepare for Interviews That Will Get Even the Haters to Talk (2017)
Minneapolis Star Tribune
  • Yes you can go home again, (2012)
  • Fire and Grace in California, (2003)
Boston Globe
  • Some want US to ditch plan for border barrier (1989) PDF
  • Conner's Homecoming Captivates San Diego (1987) PDF
  • Rejoicing, reservations abound at Conner's club (1987) PDF
  • An 'open door' on the border (1986) PDF
  • Desperados meet high tech along US border with Mexico (1985) PDF
  • Fires are a personal matter to volunteers in California (1985) PDF
  • The US border agents' challenge (1985) PDF
Science and Spirit
  • Craving a Discourse, (2007)
  • An Unforgivable Act?, (2007)
  • The Healing Waters, (2007)
  • Braving the Awful Truth, (2007)
  • Play it Again, Sammy, (2007)
  • Tracking the Buddha, (2004)
  • Words to Live By, (2002)
The Christian Century
  • Evolutionary Science Meets Evangelical Faith, (2022)
  • Encounters with a Saint, (2016)
  • Riffing on a Prayer: Jazz Vespers Every Week in San Diego, (2016)
  • Unseen Realities, (2010)
Storyline Blog
  • The Storms We Can’t Predict (2016)
  • Where Do you go to heal a broken heart? (2015)
  • When all that you have is exactly what someone needs (2015)
  • Plotting Revenge feels so good until it doesn't (2015)
  • Travel Advisory: Don't Jump to Conclusions (2015)
  • The One Question We Should all ask of each other and ourselves (2015)
  • What are Friends For? Sometimes it is Easier than you Think (2015)
  • Reaching for the Sky (2014)
  • Another Reason Why I'm Not an American Ninja Warrior (2014)
  • Was I Prepared to Hike the Grand Canyon? Uhh, Sort Of... (2014)
  • Don't You Love It When You're Right? Except When You're Wrong (2014)
  • Sometimes My Headaches Bring Out The Best in My Friends (2014)
  • Hey Cellphone User! Oh, Never Mind (2013)
  • Evicting Rats, Digging Up Memories (2013)
Relevant
  • Vicente Fox : The Former President of Mexico is Turning the Tide for Mexican Youth, (2012)
  • Q&A: Eugene Peterson, (2007)
  • Raw Christianity: A Conversation with Anne Lamott, (2007)
Risen Magazine
  • Rob Bell: The Preacher who kicked the hornet's nest, (2011)
  • Tom McCarthy: Small Moments become Big Decisions, (2011)
  • Richie Furay, (2011)
  • Davis Guggenheim: More Truth, Even Less Convenient, (2010)
  • Molly Jenson: Oh my gosh its me, (2009)
  • Look Here: Dean Nelson, (2010)
Saturday Evening Post
  • God vs. Science, (2011)
San Diego Lawyer
  • Bob Goff and Restore International: Bringing Hope to Those in Need, (2007)
  • Centralized Courts: Do Unification and State Funding add up to a loss of control?, (2004)
Golf Getaways

Poetic Justice at Torrey Pines, (2013) PDF

Hummingbird Review
  • While Preparing to Interview Billy Collins, (2013) PDF
  • Cow's Head Revisited, (2010) PDF
KPBS
  • The Quantum Leap Between Religion and Science, (2011) Interview
    • Transcript: The Quantum Lead Between Religion and Science (PDF)
North County Times
  • Father Joe continues his 'hustle' even into retirement, (2011) PDF
  • Author argues we've evolved beyond need for religion, (2011) PDF
  • Physicist and priest, Polkinghorne balances science and faith, (2010) PDF
Sojourners Magazine
  • The Paradoxes of Mother Teresa, (2017)
  • Singing for Clean Water, (2006)
  • The Apocalypse Next Door, (2005)
  • A cup of Life, (2006)
Utne Reader
  • Saffron Robes and Lab Coats: Buddhists and neuroscientists search for common ground, 2009
Frum Forum
  • No Need for Christians to fear science, (2007)
Beliefnet
  • Test Everything, (2011)
  • Physics and the Body of Christ, (2009)
Burnside Writer's Collective
  • How the Minnesota Twins Made the Spin of the Ball, and the World, Make Sense, (2009)
Theology News and Notes
  • Media as Extension of Ministry, 2006
Refreshed Magazine
  • 2016, Refreshed Magazine: Resolving to forgive and to love (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: Warm memories of near-tragic winter event (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: Setting a bigger table (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: Big lesson in serving small (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: Beware your message on the run (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: Married to selflessness (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: Feasting on fellowship (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: Don't miss the moment (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: On confident footing (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: A single red balloon (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: Finding the Presence of mind (PDF)
  • 2015, Refreshed Magazine: Bread winner: Provoking harmony with an act of kindness (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: Living Bethlehem (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: Grace at work - even in tragedy (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: Feasting on humble pie (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: The high calling of selling dresses (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: Unconventional Communion (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: Tangerines as soul food? (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: Living beyond code compliance (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: It starts with water (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: A wild lesson in pursuit (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: In pursuit of the whole road (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: Pay attention: Our best stories are told in the details (PDF)
  • 2014, Refreshed Magazine: Serving with simple tools (PDF)
Youth Worker Journal
  • Predators Among Us: Teens And Youth Workers Confront Internet, (2006)
Christianity Today
  • Admissions Rejected, (2005)
  • Do Drink the Water, (2003)
  • To Heaven on a UFO?, (1997)
Outreach Magazine
  • Soulfires: Guatemala’s Healing Waters, (2014)
  • Physics, Faith and the Myth of Intellectual Suicide, (2013)
  • Herbert Cooper: People’s Church, Oklahoma City, (2011)
Christian Single
  • Sex and the Single, (2007)
  • Hitting the Right Notes, (2007)
Missouri Life
  • Laser Beam in my Dreams, (2017) PDF
  • The Ozark Mountain Daredevils are Still Shining (2017) PDF
Saint Louis Magazine
  • Head to Steelville to mark major anniversaries with The Mountain Daredevils and Wildwood Springs Lodge (2022) PDF
San Diego Troubadour
  • It’s Not Nostalgia, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils Are Still Doing It! (2024) PDF
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