- “Christianity and Nonviolence.” In Nonviolence in the World’s Religions: A Concise Introduction, eds Jeffery D. Long and Michael G. Long, 88–101. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021.
- “A ‘Manual’ for Escaping Our Vicious Cycles: Practical Guidance from the Sermon on the Mount for a Just Peace Ethic.” In A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence. Eli S. McCarthy, ed. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2020.
- “What Will It Take: Learning from Pope Francis’s Peacebuilding Pedagogy.” Expositions 13, no. 2 (2019): 137–51.
- German translation: “Worauf es ankommen wird. Erkenntnisse aus der Friedensstrategie von Papst Framzoslus.” In Papst Franziskus, Mensch des Friedens: Zum friedenstheologischen Profil des aktuellen Pontifikats. Im Auftrag von Pax Christi Deutschland, eds Stefanie A. Wahl, Stefan Silber, and Thomas Nauerth, 149–68. Freiburg; Basel; Wien: Herder, 2022.
- “Narrate in Service to the Whole.” Response to Benjamin W. Goossen, “Why 500 Years?: A Critique of Anabaptism’s Upcoming Anniversary Celebration”. Mennonite Life 71 (July 2017).
- “The Fierce Grace of Stability: A Story of Discernment Through Hard Times.” Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 17, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 19–26.
- “Catholic and Mennonite: A Journey of Healing.” Sharing Peace: Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation. Eds Gerald W. Schlabach and Margaret Pfeil. Forward by Msgr John A. Radano. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2013.
- Also published in One in Christ 42, no. 2 (Winter 2008): 318-40.
- First presented at Mennonite Catholic Theological Conference. Notre Dame, Indiana, 31 July 2007.
- “Must Christian Pacifists Reject Police Force?” In A Faith not Worth Fighting for: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions About Christian Nonviolence, eds Tripp York and Justin Bronson Barringer, pp. 60–84. Eugene OR: Cascade Books, 2012.
- “‘Just Policing’ — Die Frage nach (De-Legitimierung des Krieges muss nicht kirchentrennend bleiben. Lernerfahrungen aus dem mennonitisch-katholischen Dialog.” Translated by Helga Voigt. Ökumenische Rundschau 60, no. 1 (2011): 66–79.
- “Just Policing and the Christian Call to Nonviolence.” In At Peace and Unafraid: Public Order, Security and the Wisdom of the Cross, eds Duane K. Friesen and Gerald W. Schlabach, 405–22. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 2005.
- First presented at conference on “Seeking the Welfare of the City: Public Peace, Justice and Order” Mennonite Central Committee Peace Office. Akron, PA, 3 August 2004.
- “Just Policing: How War Could Cease to be a Church-Dividing Issue.” In Just Policing: Mennonite-Catholic Theological Colloquium 2002,edited by Ivan J. Kauffman. Bridgefolk Series. 19-75. Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2004. Also see “Response to Responses” on pp. 112-126.
- First presented to the Mennonite-Catholic Theological Colloquium, 2002.
- “Between the Times, Between Communities: Eucharistic Theology for the Bridge.” One in Christ 39.2 (April 2002) 3-16.
- First presented at 2003 Ekklesia Project Gathering, panel on “The Eucharist and the Fractured Body.” 31 July 2003, DePaul University, Chicago. Also presented as background reading for participants at 2003 Bridgefolk Conference, July 2003.
- “The Christian Witness in the Earthly City: John H. Yoder as Augustinian Interlocutor.” Chapt. 11 in A Mind Patient and Untamed: Assessing John Howard Yoder’s Contribution to Theology, Ethics, and Peacemaking. Edited by Edited by Ben C. Ollenburger and Gayle Gerber Koontz, with an introduction by Stanley Hauerwas, 221-44. Telford, Pa.: Cascadia Publishing, 2004.
- Reprinted in The New Yoder, Peter Dula and Chris K. Huebner, 18–41. Eugene OR: Cascade Books, 2010.
- First presented at conference on “Assessing the Theological Legacy of John Howard Yoder.” University of Notre Dame, 7-9 March 2002.
- “Breaking Bread: Peace and War.” Chapt. 27 in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Sam Wells, 360–74. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
- “Clarity, Obfuscation and What Mennonites Should Learn from Weigel Anyway.” Mennonite Life, 58:2 (June 2003).
- “The Correction of the Augustinians: A Case Study in the Critical Appropriation of a Suspect Tradition.” In The Early Church and the Free Church: Bridging the Historical and Theological Divide. Edited by Daniel H. Williams, 47-74. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002.
- First presented at faculty colloquium, Bluffton College. 28 January 2000.
- “The Vow of Stability: A Premodern Way through a Hypermodern World.” In Anabaptists & Postmodernity, eds Susan Biesecker-Mast and Gerald Biesecker-Mast, with a foreword by J. Denny Weaver. The C. Henry Smith Series, vol. 1, 301-24. Telford Pa.: Pandora Books U.S., 2000.
- Abridged version also published in Mennonite Life 53:3 (September 1998).
- First presented at conference on “Anabaptists & Postmodernity,” Bluffton (Ohio) College, 6-8 August 1998.
- “Deuteronomic or Constantinian: What is the Most Basic Problem for Christian Social Ethics?” In The Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard Yoder, eds Stanley Hauerwas, Chris K. Huebner, Harry Huebner, and Mark Thiessen Nation, 449-71. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
- First presented as Marpeck Lecture, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 5 March 1998, with the title, “Faithfulness, temptation and the Deuteronomic juncture: Is Constantinianism the most basic problem for Christian social ethics?”
- “More Than One Task: North American Nonviolence and Latin American Liberation Struggle.” Epilogue in Relentless Persistence: Nonviolent Action in Latin America, eds Philip McManus and Gerald Schlabach, with a foreword by Leonardo Boff, 252-65. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1991.
- “The Nonviolence of Desperation: Peasant Land Action in Honduras.” Chapt. 4 in Relentless Persistence: Nonviolent Action in Latin America, eds Philip McManus and Gerald Schlabach, with a foreword by Leonardo Boff, 63-78. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1991.
- “Revolutionary Nicaragua: Military Service, Conscientious Objection and Nation-building.” In The Role of the Church in Society. Ed. Urbane Peachey. Carol Stream, Illinois: International Mennonite Peace Committee, 1988) 51-70.