For EBONY:
“The Black Church: Under Attack and Guilty of Assault,” July 15, 2015.
“Preaching and Practicing Homophobia: Controversy at Hampton University Ministers’ Conference” (with Rev. Dr. Nyle Fort), June 18, 2015.
“Loving Black Women Means Addressing Police Rape,” April 24, 2015.
for The Root:
“New Birth and Jamal Bryant: Time for the Black Church To Address Its Culture of Sexism, Misogyny and Homophobia,” December 4, 2018.
“To Black Church Folks Just Waking Up: A Welcome and a Warning,” July 14, 2016.
“#AltonSterling: Black People and Our Collective Hustle to Survive,” July 6, 2016.
“#PulseShooting: A Homegoing for Our Queer Dead,” June 22, 2016.
“Stand With Her: Black Men as Anti-Rape Activists,” January 17, 2016.
for News One:
“Here Is Why It’s Too Late For ‘The Talk’ In Donald Trump’s America,” September 28, 2017.
“‘Listen:’ Marvin Sapp & R. Kelly’s Gospel Song Does More Harm Than Good,” September 18, 2017.
“‘Why Are They Racist?’,” July 24, 2017.
“Cosby On Trial During Trump Presidency,” June 8, 2017.
“Colorism, Sexism, Racism & The Politics of Black Hair,” May 4, 2017.
“‘Black, Gifted & Whole’ Nonprofit Helps Gay Students Thrive At HBCUs,” April 11, 2017.
“White Bodies Protesting in The Age Of Trump,” March 21, 2017.
“Black Lives Matter V. Trump: What’s Next?,” March 20, 2017.
“‘Moonlight’ Eclipses White Liberal Shade,” February 27, 2017.
“The Unholy Alliance Between Donald Trump & Black Church Folks?,” January 30, 2017.
“Eddie Long and the Black Church’s Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse,” January 17, 2017.
for Black Perspectives:
“Black Religious Politics: An Interview with Historian Nicole Myers Turner,” book interview of Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia (UNC Press, 2020), Sept. 14, 2020.
“Wayward Negro Religions in the 20th Century Slum,” for an online roundtable on Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, May 21, 2020.
“Black Gods Among Us: In and Beyond HBO’s Watchmen,” for an online roundtable convened by Greene-Hayes, February 11, 2020.
“Transgendering Labor: Black Mothers and Black Men,” for the online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, December 5, 2018.
for A-line: a journal of progressive thought:
“Ballot Box Terror and the Impossibility of the Black Vote,” August 30, 2018.
for Immanent Frame:
“Uranus and I are pretty good friends,” In Out there: Perspectives on the Study of Black Metaphysical Religion, J.T. Roane and Matthew Harris, eds., April 8, 2022.
Co-editor with Mona Oraby, “Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19,” online forum, January-February 2021.
“Why are queer black lives ‘secular’”? In Religion, secularism, and Black Lives Matter, Vincent Lloyd, ed., September 22, 2016.
Other Selected Contributions:
“The Overwhelming Whiteness and Increasing Maleness of U.S. Churches Isn’t an Accident—It’s a Selling Point,” ReligionDispatches.com, September 27, 2024.
“The Black Church in American Public Life,” forum co-curated with Josef Sorett and Henry Brill, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, April 8, 2021.
“Pessimism and Abolition Theology,” Roundtable response to Darnell Moore’s “Let’s Get Free: A Case for Abolition Theology,” February 10, 2020. Chicago Theological Seminary.
“Standing Tall in Her Stilettos: A Daughter Becomes Pastor Of Her Father’s Church,” Essence.com, August 14, 2019.
“An Open Letter to Kim Burrell: Save Your Apology,” CassiusLife.com, August 10, 2017.