Join Us At These Coming Events


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Recent Events

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A Sampling of Previous Events  

Spirituality & Addiction Recovery

Missouri Dept. of Mental Health Spring Training Institute, May 20-21, 2010 
  • Super-Session: “A Circle of Spiritual Guidance: Helping Persons with Addictions Move Beyond the Spiritual Wading Pool”
  • Concurrent Session: “Spiritual Roots of Addiction & Recovery: Theology, Healthy and Unhealthy”
Theologian-in-Residence, First United Methodist Church, Boulder, Colorado, 2010
  •  “Spirituality, Trauma and Victimization”
  • “Spirituality and Addiction Recovery”

Kansas Wesleyan University, 10/08

  • “Theological Roots of Addiction and Recovery”

INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGISTS, The Meaning Conference, Vancouver, B.C.,7/06

  • “Helping Addicts Move Beyond the Spiritual Wading Pool: A New Approach to religion and spirituality in the Healing of Addictions,”

16th Annual Addiction Training Institute, West Virginia University School of Medicine, June 2005

  • “Spiritual Roots of Addiction and Recovery;” and “Spirituality and Victimization”

Indiana State Univ., Landsbaum Center for Health Education, Mar. 10-12, 2005

  • Addiction and Spirituality: Scientific, Theological and Clinical Perspectives: A conference for Researchers, Clinicians & Clergy
  • “Spiritual Roots of Addiction & Recovery” Keynote
  •  “Theological & Religious Roots of AA”  

The National Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, CASAConference, So Help Me God II, Sept. 21, 2005, New York City

  • “As We Sow, So Shall we Reap: The Training of Clergy and Treatment Providers”

Danielsen Institute of Boston University

  • “Addiction and Spirituality: Challenging Perspectives in an Emerging Field,” May 1998

Spiritual but not Religious 

Theologian-in-Residence, First United Methodist Church, Boulder, Colorado, 2010

  •   ”Getting in Touch with the Spirit: Spiritual Memoir Writing”
  •  ”Unfettered Belief, Untethered Practice: The ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’ Movement”

Great Lakes Theological Academy, Traverse City, MI July 26-30, 2010

  •  “The Challenge of Spirituality in the New Millennium”

Broad St. Presbyterian, Columbus, OH  4/18/10

  •  “What Does it Mean to Be Spiritual but not Religious?”

Worthington Presbyterian, Worthington, OH 5/23/19

  •  “Meeting the ’Spiritual But Not Religious’”

Ohio Campus Ministries 5/14/10

  •  “New Spiritual Movement among Young Adults”

Synod of the Covenant, March 12, 2010 Maumee, Ohio 

  • “The Church and the ‘Spiritual but not Religious’”

Ohio Ministries Convocation Keynote, Jan. 2010

  • “Spirituality and the Church Today”

Worthington Presbyterian Church, 11/28-12/5, 2010  

  • “Spiritual but not Religious: What You Need to Know”

First Community Church, Columbus, OH 10/18/09

  • “Meeting and Serving the ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’ Among Us”

Indianola Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 9 & 16, 2008  

  • “Meeting and Serving Spiritual But Not Religious Folk“

Spirituality & Narrative

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION

  • “Themes in Religious Conversion,” Respondent, Religious Conversion Consultation, Nov. 2010 
  • “Religious Conversion and Immigration: Italian Americans as Case Study,” Religious Conversion Consultation, Nov. 2008

 Light on the Hill Retreat Center, Van Ettan, NY, September 19-21, 2008  

  • “Writing as a Spiritual Discipline”

Bay View Association, Petoskey, Michigan, August 10-16, 2008 

  • “Seeking God and Being Found: Mapping Our Spiritual Journeys”
     

Rutgers University Center of Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience & The New Jersey Historical Society, 10/6/07  

  • The Long Hot Summer in Retrospect, Part II
    “Was It Really Just a Protest of Local Reactionary Whites?: Kawaida Towers and Newark’s North Ward After the ’67 Riots”

Newark Public Libarary, Oct. 10, 2007

Spirituality & Theology  

Columbus Mennonite Church,  Nov. 21, 2010  

“A Non-Violent Atonement”

American Academy of Religion,  Atlanta, June 12-19, 2010

  •  Theologies of Religious Pluralism Cohort II

First Congregational Church, Nantucket, Guest Preacher, June 2010

  •  “Seeking Spirit”

First Community Church, Columbus , Oct. 18, 2009  

  • Staff Retreat

Trinity United Methodist Church, Salina, Kansas, Oct. 19-20, 2008

  • “New Ministries Workshop”