[7] She spent years researching and championing the music and life of sunshine pop progenitor Curt Boettcher and wrote liner notes for several collections of his work.

Three months later, after Alice von Hildebrand cited Goldstein's research in her own critique of West,[14] the Catholic News Agency made the thesis available for download.

[17][18] Her first book The Thrill of the Chaste was published by Thomas Nelson in December 2006; she promoted it with appearances on the Eternal Word Television Network and NBC's Today Show.

[20] Goldstein's second book, My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints, was published in April 2012 by Ave Maria Press.

[22] Her third book, Remembering God's Mercy: Redeem the Past and Free Yourself from Painful Memories, was published by Ave Maria Press in February 2016.

[25] In March 2019 her fourth book, Sunday Will Never Be the Same: A Rock & Roll Journalist Opens Her Ears to God, was published by Catholic Answers.

The work recounts Goldstein's spiritual journey "from the temples of her childhood Judaism to the music clubs of Greenwich Village, where she became an acolyte of a new religion: rock & roll".

[30] In July 2024, Goldstein announced in her online newsletter that she had entered into an agreement with University of Notre Dame Press to write another Jesuit biography, A Priest in Good Trouble: Father Louis J. Twomey, S.J.’s Battle for Human Dignity with MLK in the Deep South.

[34] The Anderson Council's recording of "Alone With You," which Goldstein co-wrote with the band's Peter Horvath, reached #1 on the Radio Indie Alliance Top 75 Songs for the week of May 1, 2023.