peer-reviewed articles
“‘None That Doeth Good’: Early Evidence of the First Vision in JST Psalm 14” with Don Bradley. BYU Studies Quarterly 61:3 (2022): 123-140.
“Illiberal Economic Institutions and Racial Intolerance in the United States,” Economic Affairs 42:2 (2022): 307-326.
“Review of In All Fairness: Equality, Liberty and the Quest for Human Dignity,” Faith & Economics 77 (Spring 2021): 66-71.
“How Trade Openness Can Help to ‘Deliver the Poor and Needy’,” Economic Affairs 40:1 (2020): 100-107.
“‘Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon’: An Institutional Interpretation of the Gospels,” Faith & Economics 74 (Fall 2019): 5-18.
“Is Commerce Good for the Soul? An Empirical Assessment,” Economic Affairs 38:3 (2018): 422-433.
“‘Ye Are No More Strangers and Foreigners’: Theological and Economic Perspectives on the LDS Church and Immigration,” BYU Studies Quarterly 57:1 (2018): 65-103.
“The Great Escape from Poverty: The Economic and Moral Case for Good Management,” Graziadio Business Review 20:2 (2017) [Online].
“‘All Things Unto Me Are Spiritual’: Worship Through Corporeality in Hasidism and Mormonism” with Allen Hansen. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 50:1 (2017): 57-77.
“‘To Dress It and to Keep It’: Toward a Mormon Theology of Work,” BYU Studies Quarterly 55:2 (2016): 161-177.
“‘No Poor Among Them’: Global Poverty, Free Markets, and the “Fourfold” Mission” with Nathaniel Givens. SquareTwo 7:1 (Spring 2014) [Online].
“Mormon and Israel: Wealth” in As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture, ed. Julie M. Smith (Greg Kofford Books, 2016). 2016 Best Religious Non-Fiction Award, Association for Mormon Letters.
Book chapters
online writing/ popular press
“Corruption, Centralization, and Commerce,” Law & Liberty (May 2, 2024).
“An Overlooked Text Supporting Joseph Smith’s First Vision Consistency” with Don Bradley. Deseret News (April 13, 2024).
“The Dark Specter of Liberal Mormonism,” Law & Liberty (March 21, 2024).
“Is Ideology Dividing Us — or Something Else?” Public Square Magazine (March 3, 2020).
“Good Reasons for Knowing Little,” Public Square Magazine (Jan. 23, 2020).
“Knowing Less Than We Think,” Public Square Magazine (Jan. 7, 2020).
“Immigrants are Not Threats, They’re Potential Partners,” SMU Texas-Mexico Center Blog (Sept. 21, 2018).
“LDS Moral Commitments on Immigration are Grounded in History and Scripture,” Deseret News (June 19, 2018).
Working/ Unpublished Papers
“Commerce and Gentle Mores: Assessing the Empirical Validity of Doux Commerce,” MA Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2020.
“‘Some Kind of Sub-Species of a Christian’: James Bond and the Post Christian West” with Guy Burnett. Chapter for Religion and James Bond volume in the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series (Under Review).
“‘A Monster Development of the Isms’: George Fitzhugh on Liberalism and the Latter Day Saints,” in A Radical Spirit: The History and Potential of the Latter Day Saint Tradition (University of Illinois Press, under review).