Career
He was the Executive Editor of the journal First Things and was the editor of Touchstone Magazine from 2003 to 2008. His "A Hope for Collapsing Churches" was widely reprinted in the Anglican world, and for many years he wrote a "Letter from America" for the English Anglican magazine New Directions, published by Forward in Faith/United Kingdom. He writes a column for the Inside Catholic website, Lay Witness magazine, and the diocesan newspaper The Pittsburgh Catholic, and has also written for Columbia, The National Catholic Register, The New Oxford Review, First Things, and Our Sunday Visitor. Before becoming editor of Touchstone, he served as director of publications at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, where he edited the seminary"s journal Mission & Ministry.