• Holy Ground  An account of working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. (Notre Dame Magazine, reprinted in The Best Spiritual Writing 1999 , HarperSanFrancisco, Faith.com and Christian Gateway.)

•  I was a Teenage Atheist Conversion narrative  (Commonweal, Oct 8, 1999, reprinted in The Best Spiritual Writing 2000, HarperSanFrancisco.)

• Aliens and Strangers (Southwest review, November 2002.)

• White Elephants (White Elephants and the Winters of the Martriarchs appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review.  It won a $20,000 U.S. national Endowment for the Arts Award.) 

• The Winters of the Matriarchs.

• Learing to Pray  (The Christian Century, March 2000)

• The First Thing in the Morning. (published in The Style page of The Washington Post.)