- Commemoration of the Centenary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Visit to North America (2012)
 - Divine Simplicity: Remembering the last Hand of the Cause of God, Dr. ‘Ali-Muhammad Varqa (2007)
 - Dissidents and the Bahá’í Faith (2005)
 - The Enigma of Time (from Under the Divine Lote Tree: Essays and Reflections, 1999)
 - Epiphany in the Church Meadow (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
 - Eric Fromm and the Bahá’í Faith (2007)
 - The Faith State: Vital to Theist, Agnostic and Atheist (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - Fall in Love With a Frog: Conversation With a Centenarian (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
 - Globalization and Humanity’s Coming-of-Age (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - The Heart is a Little Bird that Longs to Soar: Incomplete Impressions of Pilgrimage in Haifa, Bahji and Akká in the Days of the Universal House of Justice (2007)
 - Hope as Creative Fiction (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
 - “Imagination, the Mistress of us All”: Commentary on Blaise Pascal’s Saying (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - In Durham Cathedral: A Moment With Stephen Lambden (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
 - In Search of Community (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
 - Kindness to Animals (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - Lessons Learned from the Columbine High Massacre (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1999)
 - Life Tests and Other Stressful Situations (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - Message of the Universal House of Justice to the World’s Religious Leaders (Panel Discussion Comments at ABS Conference, 2002)
 - My Interview With Laura Dreyfus-Barney (Paris 1967)
 - The Nine Rites of Spring (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - Pain and Suffering (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - The Plaster Saint According to Father Thomas Merton (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - Preparing for the Centenary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Visit to Montreal (2012)
 - Public and Private Morality and the Politician (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
 - Reading Father Thomas Merton: Convergence of Spirits (2009)
 - Religion in Ingmar Bergman’s Films (2007)
 - Remembering John F. Kennedy, 1960-1999 (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1999)
 - Replacing Debate With Consultation (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
 - Return to Salt Spring: Fall Impressions of an Island Refuge (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 2008)
 - The Search for Truth (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
 - Sex and the Soul as the Body Beautiful (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - Short Notes on Bahá’í Belief (1994)
 - Spirituality According to Pop Culture (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - Spirituality is More Than a Fashionable Word (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - Summer Travel-Teaching In England and France (2004)
 - Teaching at the Café: Meeting H., an Iranian Gentleman (2008)
 - Teaching the Faith, Magic Moments, Meeting Great Souls (2012)
 - Unconditional Love (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
 - The Voice of Conscience in Character (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 - What A Young Man Learned From Laura Rumney Davis About Shoghi Effendi (1965)
 - What Stanwood Cobb Told Me About ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (2007)
 - Why We Need Bahá’í Theology (1995)
 - Worshiping Eros: A Modern Myth (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
 
not-yet-posted essays:
- The Queen of Hearts: Remembering Lady Diana
 - Lady Diana: Lessons in the Aftermath
 - The Happy Saint