I’m the executive director of storytelling and communications for the H. E. Butt Foundation. I live in San Antonio, Texas, where I also run one of the foundation’s programs, a storytelling initiative called Know Your Neighbor that seeks to bridge our city’s economic divides.
I used to be a journalist, academic, and professional writer. My previous books include My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion and The Prayer Wheel (co-authored with Jana Riess and David Van Biema). You can see more of my writing below. I hold a Ph.D. in religion and literature from Boston University.
Cities Need Housing. Churches Have Property. Can They Work Something Out? (Washington Post)
How a Business Tycoon Used His Depression to Help Others (Washington Post)
Pricking the NFL Fan’s Conscience (Washington Post)
Santorum & Satan (Washington Post, written with David Kuo)
Tim Tebow and Evidence of Things Unseen (Washington Post)
What Tim Tebow and Ben Roethlisberger Reveal about Evangelical Politics (Washington Post Sunday Outlook, cover, written with David Kuo)
Bidding Farewell to Tim Tebow (CNN.com)
Prayer vs. Player (CNN.com)
The Boston Bombing: Made in America (The Atlantic, written with Wilson Brisset)
Churches Are Too Expensive for Low-Income Communities (The Atlantic)
God’s Quarterback (Wall Street Journal Weekend Review, cover)
New Life After the Fall (Christianity Today)
Review of the Criterion Collection DVD of The Night of the Hunter (Cineaste. Print only.)
PATTON DODD 