--- title: Donovan McAbee | TIME description: McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere. His poetry collection Holy the Body is forthcoming in 2026. He works as Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. canonical: https://time.com/author/donovan-mcabee/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/donovan-mcabee/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donovan McAbee ## Donovan McAbee [McAbee](https://www.donovanmcabee.com/) is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in _The New York Times_, _The Hudson Review_, _The Sun_ magazine (U.S.), _Garden & Gun_, and elsewhere. His poetry collection _Holy the Body_ is forthcoming in 2026\. He works as Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. ## Donovan McAbee *  Apr 25, 2025 ### [What John Prine’s Music Reminds Us After the Cancellation of Our NEH Grant](https://time.com/7279940/neh-grant-cancellation-americana-music-essay/) Belmont University professors detail why the cancellation of an NEH grant to help students research ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 28, 2024 ### [My Christian Faith Won't Let Me Vote for Donald Trump](https://time.com/7098605/christian-faith-donald-trump-vote-essay/) In Trump, Evangelicals have found a candidate who allows to foment hate, all in the name of God, wri... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 21, 2023 ### [How We’ve Failed Young People Amid the Gun Violence Crisis](https://time.com/6337661/failing-students-gun-violence-essay/) The overwhelming number of deaths from gun violence keeps us from turning our apathy into action, wr... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 20, 2023 ### [The Southern Baptist Convention's Long War for the Patriarchy](https://time.com/6287984/southern-baptist-conventions-patriarchy/) The Southern Baptist congregation I grew up in is the place where both my faith and my fears were ki... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 11, 2023 ### [How Do We Respond to this Hell. In Nashville After the Shooting](https://time.com/6270473/what-i-saw-nashville-covenant-school-shooting/) "This time, the school shooting was on my side of town. Perhaps next time, it will be on yours," wri... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/donovan-mcabee/","name":"Donovan McAbee"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/donovan-mcabee/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/donovan-mcabee/"},"name":"Donovan McAbee","jobTitle":"McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian. He is a Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University.","description":"McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere. His poetry collection Holy the Body is forthcoming in 2026. He works as Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.","url":"https://time.com/author/donovan-mcabee/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```