[3] From 1995 to 2000, she wrote a weekly column on religion and culture for the New York Times syndicate that appeared in more than seventy newspapers nationwide.

In 2002, the Lilly Endowment awarded Bass a major grant to support her research on mainline Protestant churches at Virginia Theological Seminary.

In 2005, Bass appeared on Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on PBS,[13] and was, along with Martin E. Marty, one of two scholars chosen to represent mainline Protestantism in The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World, a book edited by the show's host, Bob Abernethy.

[citation needed] Grounded: Finding God in the World and Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks won the Wilbur Award as the best nonfiction book of the year from the Religion Communicators Council in 2017 and 2019, respectively.

[7] Her work has been covered by USA Today,[18] U.S. News & World Report,[19] Newsweek,[20] The Washington Post,[21] the Los Angeles Times,[22] and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among others.