For an index of my Tribune articles from June 2002 through January 2004 click here.

For samples of my "On Language" column, click here.

Essays:
• The history of Tupperware, Books&Culture online, 05/10/04
• The science of consciousness, Books&Culture online, 05/10/04
• Worship and wholeness, Books&Culture online - 02/02/04
• The state of feminism, Books&Culture online - 01/16/04
• The rising prison population, Books&Culture - Jan./Feb. '04
• Christians in newsrooms, Books&Culture online - 10/13/03
• The Tragedy of the Commons, Books&Culture online - 09/29/03
• How tweens are 'getting older younger,', Books&Culture - July/Aug. '03

Book reviews:
• Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season, Books&Culture online - 11/15/04
• The Creation of the Media, Books&Culture online - 07/05/04
• City: Urbanism and Its End, Books&Culture online - 12/01/03
• Habits of the High-tech Heart, The Banner - Aug. '01

Columns/Op-eds:
• Second time around, Chicago Sports Review, Jan. '04
• TV's generation gap, Baltimore Sun, 01/30/04
• The importance of sports, Chimes, 04/30/99

Unpublished Writing
• Chicago album
• Belief series
• America series
• Thought of the Day entries:
•••••- Marriage and order
•••••- Is a person's life a story?
•••••- The purpose of ambivalence
•••••- Are historians nostalgic?
•••••- The examined life
•••••- The ontological privilege of the postmodernist?
•••••- more entries

• The murder-for-hire case of a suburban homemaker, written for the Tribune
• Grand Rapids pro volleyball team a force for young girls, written for GR magazine.
• Living in Chicago after the September 11 attacks
• New York City notebook
• Millennium series:
•••••- The anti-climactic millennium
•••••- Apocalypse not
•••••- Millennium historic, if symbolic
•••••- The more things change...