Books
Paranormal: A New Testament Scholar Looks at the Afterlife. Self-published 2015; printed by Shires Press, Manchester Center, VT
Goddess and God: A Holy Tension in the First Christian Centuries. Marco Polo Monographs 10. Warren Center, PA: Shangri-La Publications, 2006
Women and Worship at Philippi: Diana/Artemis and Other Cults in the Early Christian Era. Portland, ME: Astarte Shell Press, 1995
The Rock Reliefs and the Cult of Diana at Philippi. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, Inc., 1986
Peer-Reviewed and Invited Articles, Chapters, and Endorsements
“Titus and Other Jesus Missionaries on Crete: Encountering the Legacy of the Goddess,” The Independent Scholar, Vol. 10, https://www.ncis.org/the-independent-scholar/tis (December 2023) 64-78
“St. Paul and Goddesses along the Via Egnatia: Paganism and the Early Jesus Movement in Ancient Macedonia,” The Independent Scholar, Vol. 9, https://www.ncis.org/the-independent-scholar/tis (December 2022) 40-55
Invited endorsement, Thomas G. Plante and Gary E. Schwartz, editors, Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased: Psychological, Scientific, and Theological Perspectives. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2022
“Priestesses and Other Female Cult Leaders at Philippi in the Early Christian Era.” in Joseph A. Marchal, ed., The People beside Paul: The Philippian Assembly and History from Below, 25-62. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2015
“Same-sex Relations: Early Church,” in Julia M. O’Brien, Editor in Chief, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies, Vol. 2, 285-90. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014
“Symbols of the Prehistoric Goddess in Old Europe: Continuity and Significance in the Early Christian Era,” The Independent Scholar, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (February 2012) 16-23
“Evidence for a Christian Goddess: The Bendis-Zodiac Relief at Philippi,” Forum, Third Series 1, 1 (Spring 2007; copyright 2010) 97-112
“Episcopal Church,” Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007
“Female Imagery in Christian Apocryphal Art,” Journal of Higher Criticism, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2006) 1-16
“Human and Divine: The Marys in Early Christian Tradition,” A Feminist Companion to Mariology, 164-81. Ed. Amy-Jill Levine with Maria Mayo Robbins. London and New York: T & T Clark International, 2005. (Winner: Eisenstein Prize of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars, 2006)
“The Orante and the Goddess in the Roman Catacombs,” Journal of Higher Criticism, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2002) 1-15
“Lydia,” Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and New Testament, 110-11. Carol Meyers, General Editor; Toni Craven and Ross S. Kraemer, Associate Editors. Eerdmans, 2001
“Women at the Place of Prayer at Philippi,” Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and New Testament, 463-64. Carol Meyers, General Editor; Toni Craven and Ross S. Kraemer, Associate Editors. Eerdmans, 2001
“The Jesus Myth According to Barbara Walker,” Journal of Higher Criticism, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall 1998) 188-202
“Burials in Greek Macedonia: Possible Evidence for Same-Sex Committed Relationships in Early Christianity,” Journal of Higher Criticism, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 1997) 33-56
“Art, Ancient,” The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, 2 vols., 50-51, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1997
“Episcopal Church,” The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, 2 vols., 258-59, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
“Essays in Honor of Marija Gimbutas: A Response,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Fall 1997) 69-74
“The Goddess and Healing: Nursing’s Heritage from Antiquity,” Journal of Holistic Nursing, Vol. 15, No. 1 (March 1997) 9-24. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/089801019701500103
“Women Artisans in the Service of the Church,” Sisters Today, Vol. 65, No. 2 (March 1993) 96-103
“Mary Mother of Jesus,” Oxford Companion to the Bible, eds. Bruce Metzger and Michael Coogan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 499-500
“Women in Early Christianity,” Oxford Companion to the Bible, eds. Bruce Metzger and Michael Coogan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 814-18
“Sofia’s Churches: Microcosm of Bulgarian History,” Catholic Near East Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 3 (July 1992) 26-29
“Impressions of a ‘New’ Eastern Europe,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin XX/4 (1990-91) 8
“Pagan Funerary Practices in Northern Greece During the Early Christian Era,” Macedonian Studies VI. N.S. 1 (1989) 58-72; originally presented at First Joint Archaeological Congress, Baltimore, MD, January 1989
“Bishop Porphyrios and the City of Philippi in the Early Fourth Century,” Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. 44, No. 1 (1989) 80-85
“Christianity and the Rock Reliefs at Philippi,” Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 51, No. 1 (March 1988) 46-56
“Women at Philippi: The Pagan and Christian Evidence,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 1987) 17-30
“A Delian House Mosaic,” Numina Aegea 4, Harvard Divinity School, 1982
“Diana and the Rock Reliefs at Philippi,” Numina Aegea 3, Harvard Divinity School, 1979
Book Reviews
Review, Thomas Kazen, Dirt, Shame, Status. Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality in the Bible and the Ancient World (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2024), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 94, No. 2 (June 2025) 434-36.
Review, Elizabeth Felicetti, Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women without Children (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023) in Anglican Theological Review, Vol. 106, No. 2 (Spring 2024) 221-22.
Review, Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life (Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2010), in The Fourth R, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Lehi, UT: Westar Institute, 2024) 23.
Review, Hannah Matis, A History of Women in Christianity to 1600 (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2023) in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 93, No. 2 (June 2024) 439-40.
Review, Susan E. Hylen, Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2023), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 93, No. 2 (June 2024) 466-68.
Review, Robin M. Jensen, From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 93, No. 1 (March 2024) 215-17.
Review, Ally Kateusz, Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), in The Fourth R, Vol. 36, No. 5 (Lehi, UT: Westar Institute, 2023) 25.
Review, Mary Ann Beavis and Ally Kateusz, eds., Rediscovering the Marys: Maria, Mariamne, Miriam (London and New York: T&T Clark, 2020), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 92, No. 1 (March 2023) 133-35.
Review, Paula Fredriksen, When Christians were Jews: The First Generation (Cornwall, Great Britain: TJ International Ltd., 2018), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 91, No. 3 (September 2022) 384-86.
Review, Michael J. Kruger, Christianity at the Crossroads: How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church (Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 2018), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 91, No. 1 (March 2022) 122-23.
Review, Maria E. Doerfler, Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity (Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, 2019), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 90, No. 4 (December 2021) 420-22.
Review, Jenn Cianca, Sacred Ritual, Profane Space: The Roman House as Early Christian Meeting Place (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 90, No. 2 (June 2021) 203-05
Review, Lynn H. Cohick and Amy Brown Hughes, Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 89, No. 2 (June 2020) 198-200
Review, Nicole L. Tilford, ed., Women and the Society of Biblical Literature (Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2019), in The Independent Scholar #6 https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/BK%20REVIEW%20TIS%236_Women%20in%20SBL.pdf
Review, Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder, editors, Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 88, No. 2 (June 2019) 206-07
Review, Elizabeth A. Johnson, editor, The Strength of Her Witness: Jesus Christ in the Global Voices of Women (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2016), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 86, No. 4 (December 2017) 447-49
Review, John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition; Foreword by Mark D. Jordan; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2015), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 86, No. 4 (December 2017) 482-84
Review, Rebecca Moore, Women in Christian Traditions (New York and London: New York University Press, 2015), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 86, No. 3 (September 2017) 349-51
Review, Steven Hill, Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age. Brattleboro Reformer, May 14, 2015, B4. http://www.reformer.com/ovation/ci_28109930/europes-promise-why-european-way-is-best-hope
Review, Clare Amos, ed., The Bible in the Life of the Church. Canterbury Studies in Anglicanism. Series Editors: Martyn Percy and Ian Markham (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 2014) in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 85, No. 1 (March 2016) 106-08
Review, N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) and John Shelby Spong, Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World (HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 83, No. 1 (March 2014) 88-90
Review, Trevor Beeson, The Church’s Other Half: Women’s Ministry (London: SCM Press, 2011) and John Wijngaards, The Ordained Women Deacons of the Church’s First Millennium (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2002, 2011), in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 82, No. 2 (June 2013)
Review, Marcus J. Borg, Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power – And How They Can Be Restored (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011) in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 81, No. 1 (March 2012) 77-78
Review, Richard Valantasis, Douglas K. Bleyle, and Dennis C. Haugh, The Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009) in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 80, No. 2 (June 2011) 224-25
Review, Elizabeth A. McCabe, An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration into New Testament Studies, in Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 72 (2010) 383-85
Review, Richard A. Burridge, Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics, in The Christian Century (August 26, 2008) 38-39
Review, Margaret Reynolds, The Sappho Companion, in Bay Windows, June 13, 2002, 32, 34
Review, Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner, eds., Roman Sexualities, in The Lesbian Review of Books, Vol. V, No. 1 (Fall 1998) 8
Review, C. Freeman Sleeper, The Victorious Christ: A Study of the Book of Revelation, in The Christian Ministry, Vol. 29/3 (May-June 1998) 35
Review, Carol P. Christ, Odyssey with the Goddess, in Journal of Higher Criticism, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1997) 150-52
Review: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Jesus: Miriam’s Child, Sophia’s Prophet, in The Christian Ministry (Jan.-Feb. 1996) 38-39
Review, Margaret Hebblethwaite, Six New Gospels: New Testament Women Tell Their Stories, in The Christian Ministry, Vol. 26 (Jan.-Feb. 1995) 39-40
Review, Wade Clark Roof, A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation, in The Christian Ministry, Vol. 25 (Jan.-Feb. 1994) 34-35