Recent Publications
Books Authored
Woman, Why Are You Weeping?: Daily Meditations for Lent. Liguor, MO: Liguori Publications, 2007.
Light of the World: Daily Meditations for Advent. Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications, 2007.
Out of Exile: The Ezra/Nehemiah Story. Denver: Cook Publications, forthcoming.
Robert Frost: The Ethics of Ambiguity. Lewisburg , PA: Bucknell University Press, 2002.
Jane Kenyon: A Literary Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002.
Real Solutions to Living with ADHD. Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 2002.
Do We Still Need the Ten Commandments?: A Fresh Look at God's Laws of Love. Minneapolis , MN: Augsburg/Fortress Press, 1997.
Waiting for the Savior: Chronicles of Hope. Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 1997. Translated into Korean by The United Christian Newspaper, Seoul , 1998.
Out of These Ashes. Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 1995.
Valley of the Shadow. Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 1994.
The Poetics of Recovery: T.S. Eliot's Ariel Poems. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1994. (Awarded the Critics Choice Top Ten Books of the Year Award)
The Forgotten Wise Man. Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 1993. Reprinted in German as Elhrain: Der Unerwaehnte Weise , Neuhaussen/Stuttgart: Haenssler Verlag, 1997.)
The Dramatic Landscape of Steinbeck's Short Stories. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
A Season of Suffering. Portland, OR: Multnomah Press, 1988.
The Way of Christian Living. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1987. Reprinted in Dutch translation, 1991.
John Steinbeck's Fiction: The Aesthetics of the Road Taken. Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. Reprinted in paperback, 1991.
A Layman Looks at the Names of Jesus. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1985.
Other Worlds: The Fantasy Genre . Bowling Green: The Popular Press of Bowling Green State University, 1983.
Shaper. Lincoln, VA: Chosen Books, 1983.
Frederick Manfred: A Bibliography and Publishing Histor. Co-authored with Rodney J. Mulder. Sioux Falls SD : Center for Western Studies, 1981.
Books Edited
A Nation's Voice: An Anthology of American Short Fiction. Fort Worth, TX: HarcourtBraceJovanovich, 1995.
Editor and Introduction to John Steinbeck, The Long Valley. New York: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, 1995.
In the World: A Christian Rhetoric/Reader. Co-edited with Donald R. Hettinga. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1987.
Markings on a Long Journey: Selected Writings of John J. Timmerman. Co-edited with Rodney J. Mulder. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1982.
Articles (2000- )
“The Boy.” Roanoke Review (forthcoming).
“The Myth of the Normal Male,” Under the Sun, forthcoming.
“Jane Kenyon's Search for God,” Perspectives (May 2003): 10-16.
“House of Mirrors: Edgar Allan Poe's ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.'” Papers on Language and Literature 39 (Summer 2003):227-244.
“Summer's Heat,” Reed Magazine 59 (2002). First prize winter, 2002 Steinbeck Award.
“John Steinbeck: An Ethics of Fiction.” John Steinbeck: A Centennial Tribute. Ed. Stephen George. Westport , CT : Greenwood Press, 2002: 99-106.
"Robert Frost: 'Two Look at Two,' ‘The Road Not Taken,' 'A Time to Talk,'” The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Ed. Nancy Tuten and John Zubizarreta. Westport , CT : Greenwood Press, 2001.
“The Problem with Dolly: Saints, Superstars, and the South.” Perspectives (April 2001): 6-12.
“Miss Tubbs.” Ancient Paths, 4 (Spring 2000): 15-19. Honorable Mention Prizewinner for the year 1999.
“The Father-Stranger.” Mars Hill Review (Spring 2000): 75-90.
“Tim O'Brien and the Art of the True War Story: ‘Night March' and ‘Speaking of Courage.'” Twentieth Century Literature 46 (Spring 2000): 100-114.
“Four Women Laughing.” Mars Hill Review (Issue 23): 115-23. |
