“For His People: James H. Cone and Black Theology,” Black Perspectives, September 3, 2018

“Writing a New History of Black Religion: An Author’s Response” to the Online Roundtable on New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration on Black Perspectives, September 30, 2017

“The Spirit of Black Modernism,” Public Books, April 27, 2017
Review of Josef Sorett, Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics (2016)

“Religion on Display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture,” Sacred Matters, January 3, 2017

“A Dreadful and Improbable Creature: Race, Aesthetics, and the Burdens of Greatness,” Sacred Matters roundtable on The Birth of a Nation at 100, April 21, 2016.

“Religious Cultures Under the Radar: Jews of African Descent,” Sacred Matters, December 30, 2015

“Religion in African American History,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (March 2015)

“Post-Racial America? The Tangle of Race, Religion, and Citizenship,” Religion & Politics, October 24, 2012

“Happy S. Love,” frequencies: a collaborative genealogy of spirituality, October 26, 2011

Contributions to TRANS/MISSIONS: Media, Culture, Religion, Society:

• The Ephemera of Commemoration, September 9, 2011
• Lieby Kletzky and Religious “Otherness,” August 17, 2011
• Tabloid Religion, August 1, 2011
• Mood Lavender: Covering Religion and Black Sexuality, June 2, 2011
• News at 10: Local Stories, Big Picture, November 17, 2010
• GLBT Coverage: It Could Be Better, October 11, 2010
• The Sherrod Effect, Then and Now, September 9, 2010
• Gleek Religion, April 19, 2010
• Fighting With a Camera, March 25, 2010
• Playing Indian, February 8, 2010
• What’s Love Got to Do With It?, December 17, 2009
• Disney’s Voodoo Princess, November 6, 2009