• Religious Ethics,
• Christian Ethics,
• Religion and Society

BOOKS

• Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence. NY: New York University Press, 2019.

• Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women’s Lives Matter. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.

• Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence and Resistance Ethics. NY: New York University Press, 1999.

• Co-author with Karen Oliveto and Kelly Turney. Holy Conversations: Talking about Homosexuality, A Congregational Resource. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2005.

• Edited Our Family Values: Same-sex Marriage and Religion, Vol. 2 of Defending Same-Sex Marriage, 3 vols. Series editor, Mark Strasser, Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger, 2006.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (selected)

• “Preface,” in Michael Granzen, Breaking Through the Plate Glass Window: Prophetic Fragments Selected Writings on Seeking Justice in a Time of Reckoning. Eugene, OR:Cascade, 2022.

• “Letter” in ed., Henco Van der Westhuizen, Letters to a Young Theologian. Minneapolis:Fortress Press, 2022.

• “Gratitude for Black Christian Transnational LGBTQIA Equality Advocacy” in eds., Sarojini Nadar, Tinyiko Maluleke, Dietrich Werner, Vicentia Kgabe and Rudolf Hinz, Ecumenical Encounters with Desmond Mpilo Tutu - Visions for Justice, Dignity and Peace. Regnum Books/Oxford and University of Western Cape Press, 2021.

• “Racial Justice” in eds., Robin Lovin and Joshua Mauldin, The Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

• “Confronting U.S. Moral Hypocrisy on Child Soldiers, Inventing Antiracist Solidarity” in ed., Susan Wilhauk, Female Child Soldiers, Gender Violence and Feminist Theology. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.

• “Blackening Starting Points for Human Rights, Religion, and Ending Gender Violence” in eds., Reginaldo Paranhos Braga Juńior and Wanderley Pereira da Rosa, Religião, violências e direitos humanos (Religion, Violence, and Human Rights),2019.

• Interview, On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis, ed., George Yancy.New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

• “The Prophets and Ethics” in The Oxford Handbook of The Prophets, ed. Carolyn J. Sharp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016

• “Civil Rights, Marriage Equality, Black Clergy and Media Framing in Massachusetts and Georgia” in R. Drew Smith, ed. From Every Mountainside: Black Churches and the Broad Terrain of Civil Rights. SUNY Press, 2013.

• “Gay Rights and the Misuse of Martin” in The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.: Clarence B. Jones, Right-Wing Conservatism, and the Manipulation of the King Legacy, eds., Lewis V. Baldwin and Rufus Burrow, Jr. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2013.

• “When a White Man-God is the Truth and the Way for Black Christians” in George Yancy, ed., Christology and Whiteness: What Would Jesus Do? New York: Routledge, 2012.