Writing
Adam writes across themes and genres, including creative nonfiction, inequality research, James Baldwin commentary, and religious ethics. Subscribe to his newsletter, From the Ethics Desk, for full access to his publication archives.
2025 | As Long as I've Known Anything (Santa Clara Review)
2024 | What Do You See? (Chicago Story Press)
2023 | Letting Go (MID LVL MAG)
2024 | Four “-ologies” of Inequality Research
2023 | Reported changes in romantic and sexual behavior among college and graduate students during COVID-19
2022 | COVID-19, Higher Education, and Social Inequality
2022 | Telemedicine services in higher education: a review of college and university websites
2021 | Telemedicine Access and Higher Educational Attainment
2020 | Pre-K Through 12 Education and COVID-19: Landscape Analysis of Impact Indicators
2020 | Chief Tui Makes Way: Moana, Misogyny, and the Possibility of a Profeminist Ethic
2020 | The Importance of Inequality Studies
2020 | Why Studying Inequality Matters
2019 | Country Music for People Who Don’t Like Country Music: Sturgill Simpson and Outlaw Privilege
2022 | James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge (Sojourners)
2022 | You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge (Book)
2022 | James Baldwin's Challenge to White Liberals (podcast)
2022 | James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge (podcast)
2022 | You Mean It or You Don’t (podcast)
2022 | You Mean It or You Don’t (podcast)
2017 | Praying with James Baldwin
2013 | James Baldwin and the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
2017 | A Parable (sermon)
2017 | To Be Washed (sermon)
2017 | Paul Ramsey: Just War Thinker
2015 | Body and Wind (sermon)
2015 | Waiting (sermon)
2015 | Power and Purpose: Paul Ramsey and Contemporary Christian Political Theology (Book)
2015 | Five Questions with Adam Hollowell
2014 | What is darkness? What is light?
2014 | Streams Run Uphill
2013 | Tablet and Sword: Religion and Violence in Recent Popular Scholarship on the Muslim World
2013 | Proclaim the Message (sermon)
2013 | The Face of Christ (sermon)
2013 | Work and Witness: The Role of Faith Communities in Working-Class America
2013 | Reza Aslan’s Jesus
2012 | Knowledge and Power (sermon)
2012 | Just War and Statecraft in Paul Ramsey’s Reading of Luke 14:28-33
2012 | The Politics of Movement
2012 | Google, Artificial Intelligence, and What Makes Us Human
2012 | Outcomes, Incentives, and the Proof of What You Believe
2011 | Paul Ramsey and Reinhold Niebuhr on a Public Theology of Tragedy and the Problem of Dirty Hands
2011 | Two Ways Through Life: Reflections on The Tree of Life
2011 | Violence and Celebration in Revolutionary Times
2010 | Revising Basic Christian Ethics: Rethinking Paul Ramsey’s Early Contributions to Moral Theology
2010 | Purposive Politics: Paul Ramsey, Repentance and Political Judgment
2010 | A Response to Ricky Gervais’ Why I’m an Atheist
2010 | Everything Matters!
2010 | Why We Fight
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