Amy Frykholm

Published Work

Books

• Julian of Norwich: A Contemplative Biography. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2010. Now Available!
• Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Christian Century Features 

• "Tracking God: Karen Armstrong's Religious Vision." The Christian Century (June 29, 2010): 20-23.
• "What kind of reform: immigration policies on the table." The Christian Century (June 15, 2010).
• "Magdalene, Inc.: A Healing Community in Nashville." The Christian Century (November 3, 2009).
• "Mixed Identities: Religion Diversity in the U.K." The Christian Century 126:20 (October 6,2009): 28-30.
• "Health-care Option: A Mennonite Plan for Mutual Aid." The Christian Century 129:19 (September 22, 2009): 28-31.
• "Affinity Fraud: Fleecing the Faithful." The Christian Century (August 25, 2009). 
• "Passing it along: The Generosity of the People of Fortin de las Flores." The Christian Century (May 19, 2009).
• "Entry points." The Christian Century 126:9 (May 5, 2009): 10-11.
• "Housekeepers: Hotel Workers Organize." The Christian Century 126:6 (March 24, 2009): 26-29.
• "One House at a Time." The Christian Century 125:25 (December 16, 2008): 10-11.
• "In the None Zone." The Christian Century 125:24 (December 2, 2008): 22-23.
• “Relationship Smarts.” The Christian Century 125:18 (September 9, 2008): 24-27.
• “Three Faiths, Three Friends.” The Christian Century 125:17 (August 26, 2008): 22-24
• “Down on the Farm.” The Christian Century 125:8 (April 22, 2008): 24-27.
• “God in Evolution.” The Christian Century 125:3 (February 12, 2008): 20-21.
• “Addicted: Pastors and Pornography.” The Christian Century 124:18 (September 4, 2007): 20-22.
• “Out of Silence: The Practice of Congregational Discernment.” The Christian Century 124:7 (April 3, 2007): 34-38.
• “Breaking Away: Life After Fundamentalism.” The Christian Century 123:6 (March 21, 2006): 25-28.
• “Cadets for Christ: Evangelization at the Air Force Academy.” The Christian Century 123:1 (January 10, 2006): 22-25.
• “Soul Food: Why Fasting Makes Sense.” The Christian Century 122:5 (March 8, 2005): 24-27.
• “Smells and Bells: Turning to Orthodoxy.” The Christian Century 121:26 (December 28, 2004): 18-23.

Literary Essays

• "Fasting Toward Home." Forthcoming in The Spirit of Food, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields.
• "The Flesh of Strangers." Forthcoming in Relief 4:1. 
• “Naked and Hungry Part II.” Pilgrimage 32:1 (2007)
• “Naked and Hungry Part I.” Pilgrimage 31:3 (2006) Collected into Telling it Real: The Best of Pilgrimage Magazine 2003-2008.
• “Enough.”IDT(2006) Collected into How to Write Anything. Bedford/St. Martins, 2008.

Academic Essays

•  “From Tom Hammond to Rayford Steele: Rapture Fiction and the Predicament of Christian Male Leadership.” Collected with other essays in a yet unpublished volume from the Millennialism Project located at Trinity College, Dublin.
• “Catholicism WOW!: Dogma (1999)” for Catholics in the Movies. Ed. Colleen McDannell.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• “Living Fiction: American Spirituality and Bestselling Novels” in Faith in America Vol. 3.  Ed. Charles Lippy.  Praeger Press, 2006. 
• “The Gender Dynamics of the Left Behind Series” in Religion and Popular Culture 2^nd Edition. Ed. Bruce Forbes and Jeffery Mahan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
• “The Idea of Religious Studies” in The Idea of the University. Ed. Martha Chomiak. Kyiv: Fulbright, 2005.
• “The Puritan Apocalyptic—Then and Now” in Puritan Tradition in American Literature.  Ed. Tamara Denisova.  Kyiv: Institute of Literature at the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine, 2004.
• “The Social and Political Messages of the Left Behind Series” in Rapture, Revelation and the End Times. Eds. Bruce Forbes and Jeanne Kilde. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
•  “Nowhere, Somehow: A Meditation on Feminist Utopias.”  The Wittenberg Review 2:2 (1991): 5-24.