A North Atlantic
Puritan: John Owen (1616-83) and the North Atlantic Christian World.
Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
Journal
articles
"Charles Sheldon and Charles
F. Parham: Adapting Christianity to the Challenges of the West: Topeka,
Kansas, as the Birthplace of Modern American Religion, Kansas History: A
Journal of the Central Plains 32 (summer 2009): 106-23.
Encyclopedia
entries
"The Sugar Act of
1764," "The Stamp Act of 1765" and "The Intolerable
Acts of 1774," The World Book Encyclopedia, August 2008.
Film
reviews
"Kansas vs. Darwin: A
Documentary about the Kansas Evolution Hearings" (Jeff Tamblyn, director)
and "Fall from Grace" (K. Ryan Jones, director), Kansas History:
A Journal of the Central Plains 32 (summer 2009): 135-7.
Awards
and honors
Bronze Good Citizenship Medal,
The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 2010
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for
INternational Scholars, 2009
Mortar Board National Honor
Society, 2008
Sagamore, 2008
Office/appointments
Council of Deans and Directors,
Kansas State University Libraries
Executive committee, Kansas
Association of Historians (2010-13)
Presentations
"Advocating for the Academic
Library in the 21st Century," Southeast Kansas Academic Libraries,
May 2010
"Charles Sheldon and
Tennessee Town," Reconnection IV, Kansas Historical Society, April
2010
:"American Religious History
for Pastors and Churches: Reading It, Writing It and Saving It,"
Mid-American Ministers Council Retreat, Dayton, Iowa, April 2010
"Separation of Church and
State in United States History: Then and Now," Central Congregational
Church, Topeka, April 2010
"Topeka, Kansas: Place and
20th Century American Religions History," The Kansas Association of
Historians, Kansas City, Mo., April 2010
"A History of Conflict
within the Christian Church: Real or Imagined," Seabrook Area
Churches Lenten Series, Topeka, March 2010
"Why Academia," Delta
Chi Fireside Chat, Washburn University, February 2010
"George Washington at
Newburgh: Glasses, Tears and the Saving of the Revolution," George
Washington Birthday Celebration, Kansas City Area Chapters of the National
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, February 2010
"Studying History to
Understand Core Baptist Principles in the 21st Century," Together in
the Lord Conference, American Baptist Churches, USA Ministry Renewal
Conference, Orlando, Fla., January 2010
"Adapting Christianity to
the West: Charles F. Parham and the Birth of Modern Pentecostalism in
Topeka, Kansas"; "Witchcraft in the United States" (paper
session chairman and discussant); "Early American History"
(paper session chairman and discussant), Phi Alpha Theta History Honor
Society Conference, San Diego, Calif., January 2010
"Charles Sheldon and
Neighborhood Development in Topeka, Kansas," Shawnee County History
Society, Topeka, December 2009
"Matters Today: American
Religious History," Sparkplugs, Topeka, November 2009
"A Kansas Library Consortia
for the 21st Century," Kan-Ed Discovery Day, Wichita, Kans., November
2009
"The Future of Scholarship
in the History of Christianity," Western Fellowship of Professors and
Scholars," Manhattan, Kans., October 2009
"When is a War Just? An
Historical and Contemporary Perspective" (roundtable participant),
Topeka Center for Peace and Justice, July 2009
"Building a 21st Century
Library: Golf Course Included, Inspiration, Innovation,
Celebration," An Entrepreneurial Conference for Librarians,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Wake Forest University,
June 2009
"John Owen: North Atlantic
Puritan," Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Geneva, Switzerland,
May 2009
"Religion and the American
Revolution," Kansas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution,
March 2009
"Voting Values and Justice:
Recovering Our Lost Spiritual Traditions," Mainstream Voices of
Faith, October 2008
"From the Founding Fathers
to Flynt v. Falwell: Episodes in the History of American Civil Religion,"
Phi Alpha Theta, Washburn University, September 2008
"Saving the Empire: Billy
Graham in Britain and Australia During the 1950s," Conference on
Faith and History, Bluffton (Ohio) University, September 2008
"So Why Not Billy? The
London Press and Billy Graham in 1954," Kansas Association of
Historians Meeting, Independence (Kans.) Community College, April 2008
"The Four Legs of the
Baptist Faith, First Baptist Church, Topeka, April 2008
"Out of the Depths: Works by
French Expressionist Georges Rouault," Mulvane Art Museum
Conversations, Topeka, February 2008
"Evangelical Christianity
and the Modern Environmental Movement," Seabrook Area Churches,
Topeka, February 2008
"The Six Big Myths of
American Religious History," Westminster Presbyterian Church, Topeka,
February 2008
"Christianity in the United
Kingdom versus Christianity in the United States: The Impact of
Modernity," The Sheppard's Center, February 2008
"Religion and Politics in
Modern America," Mainstream Topeka Clergy meeting, January 2008
"What War is Ending?
Primitive Baptists and the End of World War II in the Signs of the
Times," Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Conference, Santa Ana
Pueblo, N.M., January 2008
Community
involvement
USD 501 Early Childhood Strategic
Planning Group (2008)
