s p e a k i n g | engagements

august 27, 2009
Faculty Retreat, Timothy Christian School, Chicago, IL

april 2-4, 2009
"Exploring the Post-Secular Conference," MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University

march 25-26, 2009
Bitar Memorial Lectures, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA

january 29-31, 2009
Speaker, Symposium on Worship, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

january 5-12, 2009
Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando

november 18-19, 2008
President's Institute Lectures, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

october 31, 2008
Chapel, Trinity Christian College, Chicago, IL; Seminar on "Paul, Continental Philosophy, and Prospects for Literature"

october 30, 2008
Freshman Lecture, Trinity Christian College, Chicago, IL

october 1-2, 2008
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

september 18-20, 2008
Plenary Speaker, Society for Christian Psychology Conference: "Interpreting People and Texts," Chicago, IL

september 15-17, 2008 [postponed until 2009; stay tuned for details]
"Public Theology in an Emerging World" Conference, Northern Seminary, Chicago

june 1-3, 2008
Netherlands lecture tour at the Vrije Universiteit, CHE, and TU Kampen [watch www.emergingchurch.nl for updates]

may 30, 2008
L'abri England, Greatham, UK

may 20-22, 2008
Plenary Speaker, "Philosophy & Liturgy: Ritual, Practice, and Embodied Wisdom" Conference, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

april 29, 2008
Pentecostal Studies Seminar, Department of Theology & Religion, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

april 12, 2008
Keynote Speaker, "Postmodernism: An Opportunity for Christian Scholarship and Practice," Christian Academic Network Faculty Conference, King's Manor Campus, University of York, York, UK

march 30-April 3
L'abri, Huemoz, Switzerland. Religion and Science Revisited: Lecture 1 (March 31), "“Science and Religion Take Practice: Engaging Science as Culture"; Lecture 2 (April 2), ""Is the Universe Open for Surprise? Christianity, Science, and the Spirit of Naturalism"

march 9-11, 2008
Plenary speaker, Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies/Wesleyan Theological Society, Duke University Divinity School, Durham, NC

jan-may, 2008: Director, Calvin College "Semester in Britain" Program
During the spring semester 2008 I will be teaching at York St. John University as part of the Calvin College Semester in Britain program

november 17-20, 2007
Chairing session on Radical Orthodoxy and Process Theology (Christian Systematic Theology Group); Presenting paper on the work of Peter Ochs (Scriptural Reasoning Group), Presenting on Society of Christian Philosophers panel at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA

november 27, 2007
"Pentecostal-Charismatic Spirituality: A Guide for the Perplexed," Calvin College

november 15, 2007
"Science and Religion Takes Practice: Engaging Science as Culture," for a symposium on "Evangelical Engagements with Science & Culture," Azusa Pacific University, Los Angeles, CA

november 7, 2007
Athens and Jerusalem Seminar, John Wesley Honors College, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN

october 12, 2007
Author Spotlight, Baker Book House, 2768 E. Paris, Grand Rapids, MI, 7:30pm

october 1, 2007
Chapel, Calvin College (Theme: "On Being Charismatic and Reformed")

september 25-28, 2007 (Yale); january 3-5, 2008 (Oxford)
"Ecclesiology and Ethnography: Exploring the Emerging Conversation Between Theology and Congregational Studies," An International Symposium Sponsored by the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture, King’s College London; Centre for Faith and Culture and the Institute for Sacred Music, Yale Divinity School; Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College Oxford

july 9-27, 2007
Co-Director, with Richard Middleton, "Biblical Studies Across the Curriculum: Discerning Scripture for the Disciplines" Seminar, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

june 20, 2007
"Screening the Spirit: Resonances between Charismatic Epistemology and the 'Supermedium' of Film," Regent University School of Divinity Forum on Renewal and Science, Virginia Beach, VA

june 5-8, 2007
Plenary speaker, National New Faculty Workshop, Council of Christian Colleges & Universities, Azusa Pacific University

march 23-24, 2007
Brock Philosophical Society/CRC Campus Ministry Conference (details TBA), Brock University, St. Catherine's, Ontario

march 22, 2007
"World and Our Calling" Lectures, Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario

march 8-10, 2007
Society for Pentecostal Studies Conference, Lee University, Cleveland, TN

january 17-22, 2007
"Complexity Theory, Emergence, and the Influence of Life on Matter," CTNS/STARS conference, Cancun, Mexico

november 9-11, 2006
"Augustine and Postmodern Thought: A New Alliance Against Modernity?" Conference, Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

october 22, 2006
LOFT, College Chapel, Calvin College (Sermon: "The Secret Lives of Saints"[mp3 available])

september 19-21, 2006
Keynote speaker, Interdisciplinary Studies Conference, King's University College, Edmonton, AB

august 14-25, 2006
Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, CA (teaching a 2-week instensive course on "Postmodern Theologies")

may 17-19, 2006
Christian Reformed Campus Ministry Assoc. Annual Conference: "The Mindful Pastor": Pastoring the University as Parish

may 11-12, 2006
L'abri, Huemoz, Switzerland

may 9-10, 2006
Emergent Conversation, Geneva, Switzerland

may 4-7, 2006
International Duns Scotus Society, 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

march 23-25, 2006
Society for Pentecostal Studies, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, CA

march 23, 2006
Biola University, La Mirada, CA

march 20-22, 2006
"Faith and Philosophy" Lectures, North Park University, Chicago, IL

february 26, 2006
River Terrace Church, Adult Education, East Lansing, MI

february 9-10, 2006
Langley Christian Schools Faculty Retreat, Langley, BC ("Desiring the Kingdom: Worldview, Worship, Formation")

february 8-9, 2006
Regent College, Vancouver, BC
feb 8: "What Does a Public Theology Look Like in 1984? Rethinking Common Grace in an Age of Empire" [mp3 available]
feb 9 (CTC seminar): "The Disenchantment of the World: Modernity, Secularism, Naturalism"

february 6-8, 2006
"Pentecostal Lectures" at Northwest University, Seattle, WA ("Thinking in Tongues: Elements of a Pentecostal Worldview")

december 9, 2005
Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, colloquium on "Religion, Violence, and the Limits of Liberalism" (talk title: "Whose City? Which Freedom? Augustinian Reflections on Empire, the Market, and American Foreign Policy"

november 19-23, 2005
At the Christian Systematic Theology Section and the Open and Relational Theologies Group at the American Academy of Religion, meeting in Philadelphia, PA

november 1, 2005
"RadioActive," KCRL, Salt Lake City, UT

october 21, 2005
"Speaking of Faith" on NPR: "Evangelicals Out of the Box"

october 14-15, 2005
"Christianity, America, and the Problem of Empire" Conference sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture at Michigan State University (responding to Max Stackhouse)

september 7-11, 2005
"New Beginning" Roundtable, Archdiocese of Granada, Spain

august 27, 2005
Leadership Training Seminar, Oakdale Park CRC, Grand Rapids, MI ("Church Order as Wisdom Literature")

august 7, 2005
Bethel Pentecostal Tabernacle, Stratford, Ontario, Canada

january 5, 12, 19, 26, 2005
"Discipleship of the Eye" Series at Harderwyk Ministries, Holland, MI

november 20-23, 2004
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting and Christian Theological Research Fellowship Meeting

september 16-18, 2004
After Worldview Conference, Cornerstone University

april 15-17, 2004
Wheaton Theology Conference, Wheaton, IL

february 27-29, 2004
Jubilee Conference, Coalition for Christian Outreach, Pittsburg, PA

february 22, 2004
LOFT Worship service at Calvin College ("Christian Worship as Public Disturbance," Acts 16)

january 4, 11, 18, 25, 2004
Christ Church (PCA), Grand Rapids, MI
Postmodernism: Critical Direction for the Emerging Church

november 2003
American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA

october 2003
Distinguished Scholar Lecturer, Trinity Western University
Lamblight Lecturer, Geneva Society, Trinity Western University, Langley, BC

september 14, 21, 28
Harderwyk Ministries, Holland, MI (Series: "Alien Disciples")

september 11-13, 2003
"Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition" Conference, Calvin College

june 28-july 5, 2003
L'abri, Switzerland
Lecture Series: "Demythologizing Postmodernism: Critical Direction for the Emerging Church"october 12, 2002
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, IL

may 15-17, 2003
"Hermeneutics at the Crossroads" Conference, Calvin College

november 25, 2002
American Academy of Religion, Toronto, ON

february 24-25, 2003
Augustine Conference at Lewis University

february 2 & 9, 2003
Sherman Street Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, MI

december 29-31, 2002
"Following Christ" IVCF Conference, Atlanta, GA

[last updated 26 August 2006]