Select Writing
Encounters in Thought: Beyond Instrumental Reason (Eugene OR: Cascade, 2019) Overview and Interview about https://www.gannon.edu/uploadedFiles/Content/News_and_Events/kerrpresskit.pdf
"Borgmann on Merton: Exploring the Possibility of Contemplation in a Technological Age" Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture (Vol. 19.1, Winter 2016.) 57-78
"The Use of Drones: An Argument against Optimistic Technological Determinism Featuring the Work of Albert Borgmann and an Extended Analogy" Humanities and Technology Review (Vol. 34, Fall 2015), 1-33. http://hta-net.org/htr/download-articles/volume-34-fall-2015/
"The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty" Religious Dispatches http://religiondispatches.org/author/aaron-k-kerr/
Recent Presentations
(2021) "The Nature of Death and the Death of Nature: The Limit Experience of Eva Saulitis" Virtual Conference on Medicine and Religion 3/23/2021
(2017) “From Technocracy to Digital Culture: Implications for Catholic Social Thought.” The Soul of Development : 50th Anniversary of Popularum Progressio, University of Notre Dame, South Bend Indiana.
(2016) “Situated Solidarity in Religious Terms: The SSJ Neighborhood Network and Urban Agriculture,” Conference on Critical Geography: Situated Solidarities, University of KY 23rd Annual Conference, Lexington, KY. October 14-16 2016.
(2015) "Acknowledgement in a Digital Age of Global Conflict: Veterans as Guests in the Ethics Classroom." Annual Conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, Clemson University, Greenville South Carolina.
Recent Book Reviews
All Published in CHOICE books
(2015) Gottlieb, Roger S. Political and spiritual: essays on religion, environment, disability, and justice. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 270p
(2016) Farrow, Douglas. Desiring a better country: forays in political theology. McGill-Queen's, 2015
(2017) Religion in the Anthropocene, ed. by Celia Deane-Drummond, Sigurd Bergmann, and Markus Vogt. Cascade Books, 2017.
(2018) Hudnut-Beumler, James David. Strangers and friends at the welcome table: contemporary Christianities in the American South. North Carolina, 2018.
Published in the Merton Seasonal (forthcoming) (2018) “ The times they are a Makin” A Review of Robert Hudson’s, The Monk’s Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan and the Perilous Summer of 1966 Eerdmans 2018