Christa L. and Matthew McKirland. “Charisma or Hierarchy? Troubling a Disjunction through Fictive Kinship.” In In Spirit and in Truth: Analytic Essays in Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology, edited by Joanna Leidenhag, Drew Everhart, and Christopher Woznicki. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishing, 2026.
https://wipfandstock.com/9798385210466/in-spirit-and-in-truth/

A Theology of Authority: Rethinking Leadership in the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Press, 2025. https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781540968166_a-theology-of-authority

“Shepherding Well: Guiding a Theology of Interpersonal Power and Authority.” In Hope: Growing Flourishing Church Communities that Transform and Heal People, eds. Greg Liston and Sarah Penwarden. Wipf & Stock, 2025. https://wipfandstock.com/9798385235995/hope/

“Analytic Theology.” In T&T Clark Handbook on Modern Theology, edited by Philip G. Ziegler and R. David Nelson. T&T Clark, London, 2025.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/tt-clark-handbook-of-modern-theology-9780567687173/

“Christology and Pneumatology.” In The Cambridge Companion to Christology, eds. Timothy J. Pawl and Michael L. Peterson, Cambridge: 2025. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-christology/A18626A61A952135CF282EC67878D342

“Reckoning with Sin and the Misuse of Power: Responding to Essays on Biocultural Evolution,” The Heythrop Journal, Vol 66, Issue 2 (2025): 183-186.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/heyj.14401?af=R

Christa L. McKirland & Eugene Fuimaono, “Engaging with Joanna Leidenhag’s Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation,” Religious Studies, Vol 60, Issue 3 (2024): 472-477. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/religious-studies/article/abs/engaging-with-joanna-leidenhags-minding-creation-theological-panpsychism-and-the-doctrine-of-creation/7219C79E6675488B1934DA5E1C208888

“Jesus, Agency, and the Life Led Well.” Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol 36, Issue 4 (2023): 762-782. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09539468231187790

Tanya Lameta, Christa L. McKirland, Phil Halstead, “Learning from Ifoga,” Pacific Journal of Theological Research Vol. 17, No. 2 (Nov 2022): 1-10. https://serials.atla.com/pjtr/article/view/4442

“Autonomy and Flourishing: The Interplay of Divine and Human Freedom.” Pacific Journal of Theological Research Vol. 17, No. 1 (May 2022): 23-30. https://serials.atla.com/pjtr/article/view/4408

God’s Provision, Humanity’s Need: The Gift of our Dependence. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Press, 2022. https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781540962799_gods-provision-humanitys-need

“Imago Dei and Divine Presence: A Critique of Gender Essentialism,” in Discovering Biblical Equality. Revised and Expanded edition, edited by Ronald Pierce, Cynthia Westfall, and Christa L. McKirland. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2021.

“Did Jesus Need the Spirit? An Appeal for Pneumatic Christology to Inform Christological Anthropology,” Perichoresis 19.2 (2021): 43-61. https://reference-global.com/download/article/10.2478/perc-2021-0010.pdf

“Era of Kings: Huldah: Malfunction with the Wardrobe-Keeper’s Wife,” in Vindicating the Vixens: Men and Women Revisiting Gendered Bible Stories, edited by Sandra Glahn. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2017. https://www.kregel.com/biblical-studies/vindicating-the-vixens/

Christa McKirland and Matthew McKirland. “Who’s in Charge? Questioning our Common Assumptions about Spiritual Authority.” Priscilla Papers, Vol. 27, Issue 1 (Winter, 2013): 15-25. https://www.cbeinternational.org/resource/whos-charge-questioning-our-common-assumptions-about-spiritual/

McKirland, Christa L. “Baptist Ecclesiology and Human Flourishing,” in Baptist Perspectives on Science and Religion. Edited by Timothy Middleton, Routledge Press, forthcoming.

Christa L., McKirland and Caleb Te Kahu, “ReWeaving Theological Education: Moving the Needle,” ed. Jione Havea, forthcoming.

Christa L. McKirland. “Flourishing” in T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Christian Theology. T&T Clark. Forthcoming.

“What does it Mean to be Human?” Word by Word article on Logos, published 11 December, 2025: https://www.logos.com/grow/theological-anthropology/

“Union with Christ Means a Responsible Life,” Christianity Today article published 16 December, 2025

“Can a Psychological Theory Help us Understand how to Relate to God?”, The Melbourne Anglican, published 20 June, 2022: https://tma.melbourneanglican.org.au/2022/06/can-a-psychological-theory-help-us-understand-how-we-relate-to-god/

“Authority and Power Structures in the Church Which Undermine Individual Agency,” ISCAST and NZCIS Conversations, May 2025

“Power and Authority in UK and NZ Baptist Worlds,” Project Violet, 2025.

Christa L. McKirland and Caleb Te Kahu, “ReWeaving Theological Education: An Example,” ed. Jione Havea, Talanoa Conference, 2024.

“Power, Authority, and Human Vocation,” ANZATS 2024.

“Thinking with the Psalms about Human Power and Authority,” Carey Psalms Conference, 2024.

“If an Augustinian Account of Sin is Negotiable, What Isn’t?,” NZCIS 2023.

“Can a Psychological Idea Speak into Theology?” ISCAST edition of The Melbourne Anglican, 2022.

“Explorations in Freedom and Fundamental Needs,” NZCIS Conference on Freedom in Science, 2021.

“Analytic Theology as Persuasion,” Evangelical Women of Australia Conference, 2021.

“Needing God and Christian Flourishing,” NZCIS-ISCAST Conversations in Science and Christian Faith Network, 2021.

“Beautiful Need: The Function of Creaturely Dependence in Kathryn Tanner’s Christ the Key,” Christ Among the Disciplines Christology Conference, 2020.