The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle Review, June 9, 2006

>>Romancing the Code<<

"I first realized that The Da Vinci Code had become a pop-culture phenomenon in the religious-studies
classroom when a bright sophomore slipped into my office, closed the door behind him, and explained to me, in
hushed tones, that he wanted to leave his bioengineering major and pursue the study of 'religious symbology ...'"

The New York Times, Sunday Travel, July 17, 2005

>>A Right at Righteous, A Left at Licentious<<

"HELL has no air-conditioning, but I knew that. Still, the message had never been brought
home to me in quite the same way as it was when I stopped my motor home along a
country road near Prattville, Ala., lured by a roadside display called Cross Garden ..."

The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle Review, March 19, 2004

>>The Passion: They Know Not What They Watch<<

"I've been watching how The Passion of the Christ is playing out on campus ..."

The Washington Post, Sunday Outlook, October 20, 2002

>>Redemption in an Unlikely Place<<

"Place and memory intertwine; it's a familiar human experience. But when a place is
associated with trauma, the feeling intensifies. It is as if the space itself remembers ..."

The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle Review, July 26, 2002

>>Bibles du Jour<<

"Today we are witnessing a burgeoning of bibles. Not the kind you read in a synagogue or
church, but the kind you read to master Java scripting. Or to get washboard abs ..."

The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle Review, Novemberr 9, 2001

>>Our Monsters, Ourselves<<

"Our monsters open spaces in popular culture for negotiating ultimate questions, questions
that resonate with a new and undeniable depth in this time of war and terror ..."