A Selection of Essays and Articles by Charlotte

The Millions
Prayer Consists of Attention: On Reading as a Spiritual Practice
Searching for Complexity: Motherhood in Fiction
Shells for the Creation of Human Dramas: Living, Breathing Settings in Fiction

The Christian Century
My dad died from COVID-19. My grief is a lonely one.

The Curator
Music Is a Dwelling Place

The Washington Post
Mental Illness and the Church

Catapult
More Pieces of Us: A Quilt, Mental Illness, and Things Passed Down

Christianity Today
I Lost My Dad to COVID-19. The Theology of All Saints’ Day Sustains Me.
Observing Advent Makes Me Feel Less Alone

The Contemplative Writer
Visio Divina

Mockingbird
Can Loneliness Be a Good Thing?
All the Lonely People
Suicide, Our Darker Emotions, and the Goodness of God
Social Media and Our Identities
True Belonging and the Perils of Braving the Wilderness on Social Media

Tweetspeak
Read Like a Writer: Second Person Narrative Voice in Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric”
Read Like a Writer: C.E. Morgan’s Personification Technique in “All the Living”
Read Like a Writer: Mary Oliver’s “Upstream”

Ploughshares
Grant Faulkner and NaNoWriMo
The Independent Publishing Resource Center
Art House America
Poetry, Art, and Education in Alabama's Prisons
The Neighborhood Story Project
The Porch Writers' Collective

Christ and Pop Culture
Searching for Our Own Reflections: Lessons from Alana Massey and Madeleine L'Engle