Talks & Presentations
Selected Talks & Presentations
“Canopy Soil, Intimacy, and Fractals: Quaker Ministry as Stewardship and Connection.”
New England Yearly Meeting, The Religious Society of Friends, April 9, 2022.
“The Ignatian Spirit of Soul (The Movie).”
Boston College Center for Ignatian Spirituality, April 7, 2022.
“Engaging the Optative: Misplaced Concreteness, Changing the Future, and the Power of Imagination.”
The Cobb Institute, Dec. 14, 2021.
“Uma Saudade Nunca Saciada: Deus, Utopia, e O Transcendente Sensato.”
3rd Simpósio da Sociedade Internacional Rubem Alves, Nov. 23, 2021.
"The Arts and Public Theology: Tension and Potential."
Candler School of Theology, Feb. 16, 2020.
“Creative Practice, Community Healing, and Trauma’s Wake: Theopoetics in Conversation with Moral Injury."
American Academy of Religion, Nov. 24, 2019.
"Spitting Fire: The Art of Spoken Word as Spiritual Formation."
Project Coordinator. Yale's The Theology of Joy and the Good Life, April 2018.
"On the Importance of the Arts and Imagination in Post-Truth Politics."
Discerning Truth in a Post-Fact World: A Friends Education Conference for Librarians and Educators, October 2017.
“Chess Boards and Boxing Gloves: Public Theology for an Era of Post-Truth Politics.”
Religion and Leadership Section, Mid-Atlantic Region American Academy
of Religion, March 2017.
"Religion and Public Education, A View from the Ground Up."
Panelist - Religion and Education Section, Mid-Atlantic Region American
Academy of Religion, March 2017.
“Exploring the Role of Friends Education in our Current Political Moment.”
Cambridge Friends School, Cambridge, MA. Jan. 2017.
“Called into Crucible: Vocation and Moral Injury in Public School Teachers”
Religious Education Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Nov. 2016.
“Teaching with Broken Hope: Moral Injury and Public Schooling in the United States.”
12th International Nuremberg Forum, Nuremburg, Germany. Oct. 2016.
“Stuck on Pause: Public Schools & the Decline of Creativity.”
Power of Words Conference, The Transformative Language Arts Network,
Saco, ME, Aug. 2016.
“Imagining in Fractures: Adult Christian Education with Trauma in View.”
Religious Education Association, Nov. 2015. Co-Authored with Zachary Moon
“Imagine God Emerging Here: Clearness Committees, Young Adults, and Hope.”
Religious Education Association, Nov. 2015. Co-Authored with Dori Baker.
“Vision for a Transformed Church: Leadership and The Prophetic Witness.”
Leadership Conference | Earlham School of Religion , Richmond, IN. Aug. 2015.
“Learning in the Rhythms of Life: US Public Education and Grace Jantzen's Natal Epistemology."
9th International Forum on Ecological Civilization Conference
Claremont, CA. June 2015.
“Bibliographies and Bodies in the Theological Search for Social Justice.”
Earlham School of Religion & Bethany Theological Seminary
Richmond, IN. March 2015.
"The Future of Leadership Training in 21st Century Theological Education"
Re-Imagining Theological Education Consultation | Convergence US.
Chicago, IL. Feb. 2015
“Transforming Power: A History of Quaker Advocacy.”
Friends National Committee on Legislation, Washington, DC. March 2014.
“Theological Epistemology in The Emergent Church: A Form of Ricoeur's Relational Attestation.”
Conference Paper – Open and Relational Theologies Group
American Academy of Religion, Nov. 2013
“Made as Makers and the Role of Imagination in Theology.”
Film and Talk – Challenges of the 21st Century
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School April, 2013
“An Exploration of Creation.”
Week-long Bible Study – Denominational Gathering
New York Yearly Meeting, July 2011.
“Lewis Carroll, Orthodox/Quaker Thought, The Audubon Society, and the Willingness to Squint.”
Theology after Google Conference
Claremont School of Theology, March 2010.