C4SO AUTHORS

Featured Authors

Rachel Booth Smith

Rest Assured: What Creation Was Intended to Teach Us About Trusting God

 

The Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

 

Sara Billups

Orphaned Believers: How a Generation of Christian Exiles Can Find the Way Home

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REV. CANON DR. TONY BARON
REV. CANON DR. ESAU MCCAULLEY

Publications

Presentations

  • Luke, Elizabeth, Zechariah, Mary, and Black Reconciliation with God
    Logos Conference University of St Andrews June, 2019
  • Towards a New Testament Theology of Policing: Rom 13:4, Luke 3:14, and the Hopes of Black Christians
    IBR UnScripted Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference Denver, Colorado November 2018
  • Gal 4:3–7: The Covenant Curses and the Elements of the Earth
    Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference Denver, Colorado November 2018
  • The Inheritance of the Servant and the Son: on the Use of Isaiah 53:12 LXX in Galatians 1:4
  • Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference San Antonio, Texas November 2016
  • Who Will Inherit the Land? Galatians 3:26-29 and Paul’s Interpretation of Jewish Inheritance Law
    Evangelical Theological Society Annual Conference  Atlanta, Georgia November 2015
  • The Curse, the Cross, and the Cleansing of the Land: Paul’s use of Scripture in Galatians 3:10–14
    British New Testament Conference Edinburgh, Scotland September 2015
REV. CANON DR. EMILY HUNTER MCGOWIN
REV. CANON DR. SCOT MCKNIGHT

Commentaries, Bible Dictionaries and References

REV. CANON DR. DENNIS OKHOLM

Articles Presented

  • Articles for the DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY. Gen. Ed. Glen G. Scorgie. Zondervan, 2010.
  • “Raising Issues in the Discussion of Pluralism.” In EVANGELICAL INTERFAITH DIALOGUE. Spring 2010.
  • “Reformed Ecclesiology: ‘The Community of Christ.’” In THEOLOGY MATTERS. Jan/Feb 2009.
  • “Augustine.” In A RELIGION/SCIENCE PRIMER. Edited by Heidi A. Campbell and Heather Looy. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009.
  • “Envy: The Silent Killer.” In THE AMERICAN BENEDICTINE REVIEW. 59:2 (June 2008).
  • “What’s So Important about the Trinity.” In THEOLOGY MATTERS. May/June 2007.
  • “Postliberal Theology.” In GLOBAL DICTIONARY OF THEOLOGY. Edited by William Dyrness and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007.
  • “Being Human.” In THEOLOGICAL DRIFTS: CONFRONTING CLICHES THAT CRIPPLE THE CHURCH.” Presbyterians for Renewal, 2007.
  • “Church History: Surrounded by a Great Cloud of Witnesses.” In CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: CHRISTIAN CALLING. Edited by Steven Wilkens, Paul Shier, and Ralph Martin. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2005.
  • “The Fundamental Dispensation of Evangelical Ecclesiology.” In THE COMMUNITY OF THE WORD. Edited by Mark Husbands and Dan Treier. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005.
  • “The Uneasy Evangelical: Alister McGrath on Postliberalism.” In ALISTER E. McGRATH AND EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY: A DYNAMIC ENGAGEMENT. Edited by Sung Wook Chung. Baker, 2003.
  • “Robert Webber.” In THE CONVICTION OF THINGS NOT SEEN: WORSHIP AND MINISTRY IN THE 21stCENTURY. Edited by Todd E. Johnson. Brazos, 2002.
  • “More Than One Way? Affirming the Uniqueness of Christ’s Person and Word in a Pluralistic Culture.” In THEOLOGY MATTERS, January/February 2002.
  • Articles for the DICTIONARY OF EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY. Baker, 2001.
  • “Rx for Gluttony.” In CHRISTIANITY TODAY, 4 September 2000.
  • “To Vent or Not to Vent: What Contemporary Psychology Can Learn about Anger from Ascetic Theology.” In THE CARE OF THE SOUL. Edited by Timothy Phillips and MarkMcMinn. InterVarsity Press, 2001.
  • “I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas Anymore, Toto! Postmodernism in Our Everyday Lives.” In THEOLOGY MATTERS, July/August 2000.
  • “Being Stuffed and Being Fulfilled.” In LIMNING THE PSYCHE: EXPLORATIONS IN CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY. Edited by Robert C. Roberts and Mark R. Talbot. Eerdmans, 1998.
  • “Gluttony: Thought for Food.” AMERICAN BENEDICTINE REVIEW 49.1 (March 1998).
  • Articles on prayer and spirituality in EVANGELICAL DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL THEOLOGY. Baker, 1996.
  • “On Gluttony: Only God Will Satisfy Our Hunger.” THE BANNER. 11 December 1995.
  • Articles for the TOPICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP, 7 volumes. Abbot-Martyn Press, 1994-95.
  • Articles for the NEW DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND PASTORAL THEOLOGY Inter-Varsity Press, 1995.
  • “Will the Bell Be Heard Above the Roar?” In THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN BENEDICTINE ACADEMY CONVENTION, AUGUST 8-11, 1990, YANKTON, SD. Edited by Renee Branigan, OSB. Mott, ND: Eido Printing, 1991.
  • “Defending the Cause of the Christian Church: Karl Barth’s Justification of War,” CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS’ REVIEW 16.2 (January, 1987).
  • “Biblical Inspiration and Infallibility in the Writings of Archibald Alexander,” TRINITY JOURNAL 5 (1976).
  • Occasional book reviews, such as in Books and Culture and VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review.

Papers Presented

  • “Dangerous Passions,” “Liturgical Ophthalmology,” “Getting into Character”; Distinguished Lecture Series, Bethel Seminary (San Diego), 19-20 April 2012.
  • “Reformed Ecclesiology: ‘The Community of Jesus,’” Presbyterian Coalition Gathering, October, 2008.
  • “Confessing Christ in a Pluralistic World,” Word and Spirit Conference, University of Dubuque, May 2001.
  • “St. Benedict and Living in the World,” Benedictine Oblate Directors’ Conference at St. Meinrad’s, 28 July 1997.
  • “To Vent or Not to Vent: What Ascetic Theology Can Teach Contemporary Psychology About Anger,” Wheaton Theology Conference, 13 April 1997. [to be published as a chapter in a book in 1999]
  • Response to Gayle Gerber Koontzon “Peace and Religious Pluralism: Particularity in Perspective,” Evanston meeting of the American Theological Society, 27 October 1995.
  • Response to John Hesselink on “John Calvin on the Law and Christian Freedom,” North Park Seminary, 14 October 1995.
  • “Gluttony: Thought for Food,” Wheaton College (PEW funded “think tank”), June 1994.
  • “Culture against Christ,” Evangelical Theological Society, San Francisco, November 1992.
  • Address to faculty of Marmion Academy (Aurora) on a spirituality of education, 23 August 1991.
  • “Learning to Listen: A Protestant Encounters the Way of Benedict,” Marmion Abbey, 4 August 1991.
  • Response to Colin Brown on “The Old Testament, Apologetics, and the Christian Faith,” Wheaton College, 6 December 1990.
  • “Will the Bell Be Heard above the Roar?” Response to Patrick G. Henry on “The Ground Swell’s Bell over the Ebbing Sea’s Roar: The Sound of Monasticism in Our Time,” American Benedictine Academy, Mount Marty College (South Dakota), August, 1990.
  • “St. Benedict: Seeker of God,” Academic Dean’s Convocation, William Penn College, January, 1989.
  • “Defending the Cause of the Christian Church: Karl Barth’s Justification of War,” Conference on Religion and Political Activism, University of Southern Mississippi, April, 1984.
  • Response to Mark Noll on “The Common Sense Tradition and American Evangelical Theology,” Annual Philosophy Conference, Wheaton College, October, 1983.
REV. DR. W. DAVID O. TAYLOR

Articles, Essays, Presentations & Reviews

  • Essay contribution to multi-author book, The T&T Clark Companion to Theology and the Arts, “Church & Liturgy,” (London: T&T Clark, 2021).
  • Essay contribution to multi-author book, Theological Tentpoles for Engaging Worship, editors Khalia J. Williams & Mark A. Lamport (Abingdon Press): “Creation and Worship” (due February 15, 2020).
  • Essay contribution to multi-author book, The Arts for Engaging Worship, editors Katharine Harmon & Mark A. Lamport: “Aesthetics and Worship” (due November 15, 2021).
  • Essay contribution to multi-author book, The Arts for Engaging Worship, editors Katharine Harmon & Mark A. Lamport: “Visual Art and Worship” (due November 15, 2021).
  • Review of Jennifer Craft, Placemaking and the Arts: Cultivating a Christian Life(IVP Academic: 2018), in Syndicate(2019).
  • Essay: “The New Song’ of the Psalter as a Vision for Contemporary Worship Music Worship,” The Artistic Theologian vol. 8 (April 2019).
  • Interview essay: “W. David O. Taylor on Scholars and Songwriters,” Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (March 01, 2019).
  • Essay: “Why Putting ‘Christ Back in Christmas’ is not Enough,” Christianity Today (Dec. 17, 2018).
  • Essay: “Pursuing aPlayful Liturgy,” Regent World30.2 (Winter 2018).
  • Essay: “Psalms: A Biblical Model of Art,” Fuller Magazine (February 2019)
  • Paper Presentation: “The New Song’ of the Psalter as a Model for “Traditioned Innovation” in Worship,” ETS annual meeting, Denver,CO (November 2018).
  • Review of Brendan Thomas Sammon, Called to Attraction: An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2017) for Reading Religion, a publication of the American Academy of Religion (October 2018).
  • Essay: “Voices on Disruption: David Taylor,” Fuller Magazine, vol. 12 (Oct. 2018).
  • Contribution to Christianity Today article, “John Piper Changed ‘Great Is Thy Faithfulness.’ Experts Weigh in” (August 10, 2018).
  • Essay: “Art for Faith’s Sake,” chapter contribution to multi-author book, Christian Cultural Engagement, edited by Joshua Chatraw and Karen Swallow Prior (Zondervan: forthcoming).
  • Review of Kerry Dearborn, Drinking from the Wells of New Creation: The Holy Spirit and the Imagination in Reconciliation, in PNEUMA 41.1/2 (2019).
  • Essay: “Worship & Violence: Biblical and Visual Commentary on Psalm 137,” the Visual Commentary on Scripture project hosted by King’s College, London (November 2018).
  • Essay: “The Poetry of Liturgy,” Image Journal 96 (May 2018).
  • Essay: “Bono as the Religious Everyman,” foreword to U2 and the Religious Impulse: Take Me Higher, edited by Scott Calhoun (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
  • Review of Robin M. Jensen, The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017), in Theology Today75.1 (April 2018).
  • Contribution to Christianity Today article, “The 6 Songs Billy Graham Picked for His Funeral” (March 2, 2018).
  • Response to Panel Review of my book, The Theater of God’s Glory: Calvin, Creation and the Liturgical Arts: Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, The Bible and the Reformation (October 25, 2017).
  • Interview + Review of Murray Rae, Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place (Baylor University Press: 2017), in Christianity Today (November2017).
  • Review of Susie Paulik Babka, Through the Dark Field: The Incarnation through an Aesthetics of Vulnerability, in The Christian Century (forthcoming: fall 2017)
  • Article: “Mother Tongues & Adjectival Tongues: Liturgical Identity and the Liturgical Arts in a Pneumatological Key,” Worship Journal (Summer 2018)
  • Essay: “Mary & John at the Foot of the Cross,” Biola’s Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts (April 12, 2017)
  • Essay: “Lent is Here to Throw Us Off Again: Finding healing in repetition, community and art,” Christianity Today (March 2017)
  • Chapter essay: “Which art? What worship? A response to Katie Kresser.” In Contemporary Art and the Church: A Conversation Between Two Worlds (IVP Academic: 2017)
  • Foreword to Imaging the Story: Exploring the Visual and Poetic Contours of Salvation, by Gill Sakakini and Karen Case-Green (Wipf & Stock: 2017)
  • Paper presentation: “Mother Tongues & Adjectival Tongues: Liturgical Identity and the Liturgical Arts in a Pneumatological Key,” NAAL annual meeting, Washington DC (January 2017)
  • Foreword to Lenten Meditations: A Visual Response, by Jim Janknegt (January 2017)
  • Moderator and Panelist: AAR seminar, a panel response to Modern Art and the Life of a Culture [IVP Academic: 2016], by Jonathan Anderson and Bill Dyrness (November 2016).
  • Review of David W. Stowe, Song of Exile: The Enduring Mystery of Psalm 137, in Christianity Today (October 2016)
  • “Bono, Eugene Peterson and the Vocation of Friendship,” Christ & Pop Culture (May 16, 2016)
  • “Biblical Birth Narratives Are Weird and Incredible: We Can Stop Sanitizing Them,” The Washington Post (December 24, 2015)
  • “Conserving Culture by Caring for the Imagination,” Comment (Winter 2014)
  • “Where Are All the Good Stories about Marriage,” Christianity Today (November 2014)
  • Review of F. Gerrit Immink, The Touch of the Sacred: The Practice, Theology, and Tradition of Christian Worship, in Christian Scholars Review(forthcoming)
  • Review of Bruce E. Benson, Liturgy as a Way of Life: Embodying the Arts in Christian Worship, in Theology (forthcoming)
  • “Spirit & Beauty: A Re-Appraisal,” Christian Scholars Review (Fall 2014)
  • “On the Power of Beauty,” InTouch Magazine (July 2013)
  • “John Calvin and Musical Instruments: A Critical Investigation,” Calvin Theological Journal (Fall 2013)
  • “John Calvin on Music Old and New,” paper presented at the Calvin Studies Society Colloquium, Princeton Theological Seminary (April 4-6, 2013)
  • Review of Steven Guthrie, Creator Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Human (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011), and James K.A. Smith, Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010) in Books & Culture (March/April 2013)
  • “Moving Images, Violence and Social Responsibility,” web essay, The Curator (October 26, 2012)
  • “The art of being (mis)placed,” web essay, “This is Our City” project of Christianity Today (September 2012)
  • “Discipling the Eyes through Art in Worship,” Christianity Today (April 2012)
  • “Beauty as Love: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics,” Transpositions (April 2012)
  • “On Beauty and the Holy Spirit: A Re-appraisal,” paper given at the Society for the Study of Theology conference in York, England (March 2012)
  • Review of Review of Lambert Zuiderva art, Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture (Cambridge: CUP, 2011) in Comment Magazine (September 2011)
  • “The Art of Friendship,” Comment Magazine (March 2011)
  • “Like a Sloppy Wet Kiss,” Christianity Today online (October 2010)
  • Review of Dan Siedell God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art in Books & Culture(forthcoming)
  • “The Spiritual Formation of Artists,” CIVA SEEN (Fall 2010)
  • “Two Ideas for the Spiritual Formation of Artists,” Connections: The Journal of the WEA Mission Commission (August 2010)
  • “Hooker’s Architectural Via Media,” The Living Church 240.6 (February 7, 2010), 10-14.
  • “The Little Things: A Meditation on the Art of Encouragement,” Q Words (April 2009)
  • ““A Holy Longing,” Christianity Today (October 2008)
  • “Under the Grand Piano,” CIVA SEEN (March 2008)
  • “The Good City,” Books & Culture (March 2008)
  • “Dear Pilgrim, Take Hope,” Regent College 2007 Advent Reader (December 2007)
  • “The Horrors! Or Why the Horror Genre is Redeemable,” Christianity Today Movies (April 5, 2005)
  • “Violence, Profanity, and Nudity: A Dialogue,” Christianity Today Movies (August 3, 2004)
  • “In Defense of Mere Entertainment,” Christianity Today Movies (July 27, 2004)
  • “The Honest-to-God Truth about Movies,” Christianity Today Movies (July 20, 2004)
  • “What is a Christian Movie, Anyway?” Christianity Today Movies (July 13, 2004)
  • “Are Bananas Christian?” Regeneration Quarterly 5:3 (Fall 1999)

Public Lectures, Talks, and Sermons

  • Keynote speaker: Christ our Hope Diocese (Nov 2019). Title: Holy People: “On the Beauty of Holiness.”
  • Keynote speaker: Christ our Hope Diocese (Nov 2019). Title: Holy Things: “On Worship in Spirit and Truth.”
  • Keynote speaker: Christ our Hope Diocese (Nov 2019). Title: Holy Acts: “On the Missional Trajectories of Worship.”
  • Keynote speaker: Christmas Songwriters Project, Nashville, TN (October 5, 2019). Title: “Singing the Joyful Sorrow of Christmas.”
  • Speaker: Laity Lodge Retreat, Leaky, Texas (July 25-28, 2019). Title: “Vocation, Motherhood, and Artmaking.”
  • Speaker: Christ the King Presbyterian, Houston, Texas (April 7, 2019). Title: “Psalms and Community.”
  • Speaker: First Baptist Church, Richmond, Texas (March 10, 2019). Title: “Psalms and Justice.”
  • Speaker: Christ the King Presbyterian, Houston, Texas (March 3, 2019). Title: “Psalms as Prayers.”
  • Speaker: Brehm Center Conference, “Worship, Theology and the Arts in a Divided World” (February 9, 2019). Title: “Angry Words, Healing Words: Violence, Profanity, and the Psalms”
  • Speaker: Christ the King Presbyterian, Houston, Texas (November 11, 2018). Title: “Reading the Psalms as Poetry.”
  • Keynote speaker: First Presbyterian Church, Houston, Texas (November 2, 2018). Title: “Art, Mission and Cultural Renewal.”
  • Public Talk: Houston Lecture Series, Houston, Texas (October 20, 2018). Title: “Christmas in America: Or Why Putting ‘Christ Back in Christmas’ is not Enough.”
  • Speaker: Christ the King Presbyterian, Houston, Texas (October 14, 2018). Title: “The Psalms: Formative Habits of Reading.”
  • Keynote speaker: The Lumen Lecture Series, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA (October 1, 2018). Title: “Anger, Profanity and the Therapeutic Rhetoric of Violence in the Psalms.”
  • Keynote speaker: Christians in the Theatre Arts, Houston, TX (July 20, 2018). Title: “The Theatre Artist and God’s Kingdom”
  • Keynote speaker: The Telos Collective, Chicago, Il.(May 24-26, 2018). Title: “Art and the Mission of the Church.”
  • Keynote speaker: Laity Lodge retreat, Leaky, TX (April 10-12, 2018). Titleof three talks: “The Psalms of Lament,” “The Psalms of Anger,” and “The Psalms of Joy.”
  • Keynote speaker: Laity Lodge retreat, Leaky, TX (February 22-25, 2018). Title: “The Vocation of Art & The Vocation to Prayer.”
  • Keynote speaker: VoxCon conference, NYC (February 9, 2018). Title: “Art & Metaphor.”
  • Keynote speaker: Redemptive Presence, Harbor Media, Sojourn Network, Louisville, KY (October 23, 2017). Title: “A Psalmic Vision of the Artist’s Vocation.”
  • Keynote speaker: Hutch moot Retreat, The Rabbit Room, Franklin, TN (October 5-8, 2017). Title: “The Artist as Prophet, Priest and King.”
  • Summer course: Regent College, Vancouver, B.C. (July 31 –August 4, 2017). Title: “Worship and the Arts.”
  • Preacher: Christ Church Anglican, Austin, TX (February 26, 2017): “The Transfiguration and Naming in Love.”
  • Public talk: Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels/The Culture Care Summit, Los Angeles (February 12, 2017). Title: joint talk with Bill Dyrness on the architectural and artistic significance of the Cathedral.
  • Preacher: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Houston, TX (December 4, 2016): “The Song of Zechariah.”
  • Keynote speaker: Houston Baptist University Honors College, Houston, TX (November 29, 2016). Title: “To Dash or Not to Dash the Babies Against the Rocks: On Poetry, Affectivity and Violence.”
  • Keynote speaker: St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, TN (September 18, 2016). Title: “The Psalms and Anger Management.”
  • Moderator of panel at C. S. Lewis Forum, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, TN (September 18, 2016). Title: “The Psalms and the Vocation of Artists.”
  • Keynote speaker: Faculty and Staff retreat, Regents Austin Private School, Round Top, TX (August 9-10, 2016). Title: “The Psalms as Formative Aid to Young People: in three parts.”
  • Speaker: Faith and Culture conference, First Presbyterian Church, Houston, TX (April 16-17, 2016).
  • Plenary speaker: Cascadia Worship & Arts Conference, Seattle, WA (February 19, 2016).Title: “On the Formative Power of the Arts in Worship.”
  • Preacher: Christ Church Anglican, Austin, TX (December 20, 2015): “On the Virtue of Contentment.”
  • Preacher: Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Houston, TX (December 13, 2015): “St. Paul and Contentment.”
  • Plenary speaker: Praxis Conference, hosted by Ecclesia Church, Houston, TX (May 15, 2015). Title: “Liturgical Art and Liturgical Time.”
  • Organizer: an arts consultation at Laity Lodge with representatives from key art and faith institutions (May 4-6, 2015).
  • Keynote talk: Laity Lodge retreat, “The Emotional Life of Art and Artists” (April 30 –May 3, 2015).
  • Filmed interview: Bono and Eugene Peterson on the psalms, Lakeside, Montana (April 19, 2015).
  • Preacher: Vox Veniae, Austin, Texas (March 29, 2015).
  • Plenary talk: All Saints Presbyterian’s (Austin, Texas) annual “Cross and Culture” series (February 6, 2015). Title: “Praying with the Eyes.”
  • Retreat speaker: “Artists as Stewards of Physical Reality,” Laity Lodge,Texas (March 6-9, 2014),in collaboration with Trevor Hart
  • Seminar talk: “The Visual Arts in the Life of the Church,” CIVA Biennial conference, Chicago, Ill. (June 13-16, 2013)
  • Retreat talk: “Artists as Caretakers of the Imagination” in collaboration with James K. A. Smith, Laity Lodge, Texas (March 7-10, 2013)
  • Plenary talk: “What Good Are the Arts After All?” three talks at Ambrose University College & Seminary, Calgary, Alberta (February 27, 2013)
  • Featured speaker: “A Protestant Theology of the Eye,” Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Symposium, Grand Rapids, Michigan (January 24-26, 2013)
  • Plenary talk: “Opus Oculi: On the Positive Role of the Eyes in Corporate Worship,” Preaching in a Visual Age conference, co-hosted by Fuller Theological Seminary, CIVA and the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (November 1-3, 2012)
  • Featured speaker: “On the Work of the Eye in the Life of the Church,” Conference on the Church and the Visual Arts, co-hosted by Gordon College, Gordon-Conwell Seminary and CIVA (September 22, 2012)
  • Public talk: “On the Reconstructive Power of Beauty,” Christ Church Anglican, Austin, TX (July 15, 2012)
  • Preacher: “On our Physical Bodies in Corporate Worship,” Christ Church Anglican, Austin, TX (July 15, 2012)
  • Plenary talk: “The Formative Power of Artful Worship,” Anglican 1000 Summit, Dallas, TX (March 7, 2012)
  • Retreat speaker: “Some Thoughts on the Vocation of an Artist,” Laity Lodge, Texas (March 1-4, 2012), in collaboration with James K. A. Smith
  • Conference speaker: “On Beauty,” “On the Virtues & Practices of a Flourishing Artist,” “Art and the Church: 3 Problems, 3 Prescriptions,” Topeka, KS (February 17-18, 2012)
  • Preacher: “The Psalms and the Ordering of our Emotions, All Angels Church, New York City (February 5, 2012)
  • Plenary talk: “Liturgical Art & Liturgical Time,” Anglican Worship: A Conversation on Liturgy, Formation, Mission & Art conference, Durham, NC (November 9, 2011)
  • Distinguished lecturer: “The Spirit of the Matter,” “Art, Grace and the Problem of Abundance,” “The Psalms and the Re-ordering of the Affections,” Tyndale College Faith Talk Lectures in Christian Spirituality, Toronto, ON (October 24-27, 2011)
  • Conference speaker: “On the Vocation and Identity of an Artist,” Trinity Anglican, Atlanta, GA (August 13, 2011)
  • Public talk: “Liturgical Art & the Liturgical Calendar,” Church of the Advent, Atlanta, GA (August 12, 2011)
  • Seminar leader: “Visual Art and the Local Church,” CIVA Biennial Conference, hosted by Biola University (June 16-19)
  • Retreat speaker: “On the Virtuous Artist,” Laity Lodge, Texas (May 26-29, 2011)
  • Conference speaker: “On the Formative Power of the Worship Arts,” Regent College Pastors Conference, Vancouver, BC (May 3-6, 2011)
  • Conference speaker: “The Church and the Visual Arts,” Union University conference on the arts, Jackson, TN (April 7-9)
  • Intervarsity Talk: “On Horror Movies and the Gospel,” Chapel Hill, NC (March 2011)
  • Seminar: “Liturgical Art & Liturgical Time,” Anglican Mission in the Americas annual conference, Hillsborough, NC (February 11, 2011)
  • Keynote Speaker: “Art, Faith and the City,” Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York, New York (October 15, 2010), with co-speaker Gordon Fee
  • Plenary Speaker: “The Psalter & Pop-Rock Church Music,” David Crowder’s Fantastical Church Music Conference, Waco, TX (September 30 –October 2, 2010)
  • Chapel Preacher, “Beauty & the Gospel,” Biola University (March 10, 2010)
  • Retreat Speaker: “Mentoring as an Act of Naming,” Laity Lodge, Texas (March 4-7, 2010), with co-speaker poet Luci Shaw
  • Seminar: “Pastors & Artists on a Common Quest,” Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Symposium, Grand Rapids, MI (January 29-30, 2010)
  • Public Talk: “The Expansion of Beauty on the Earth,” St. John the Forerunner Orthodox Church, Austin, TX (June 20, 2009)
  • Guest lecturer: “The Art of Lament,” Duke Divinity School, Summer Institute (June 2, 2009)
  • Retreat Leader: three talks given at Union Center Christian Church’s artists retreat, Endicott, NY (May 7-9, 2009)
  • Retreat Speaker: “The Identity and Work of Artists,” Laity Lodge, Texas (April 20-23, 2009), with co-speaker Makoto Fujimura
  • Speaker: “Art, Mission and the Gospel,” World Evangelical Alliance, Mission Commission Consultation, Pattaya, Thailand (November 2008)
  • Guest lecturer: “Evangelicals and the News Media,” University of Texas, Journalism & Religion class (October 31, 2008)
  • Sermon: “Art in Service of the Gospel,” Union Center Christian Church, Endicott, NY (October 19, 2008)
  • Public Talk: “The Care of Artists in the Church,” All Souls Church, Knoxville, TN (August 20, 2008)
  • Plenary Speaker: “Christian Artist or Disciple Artist? : A Case for a Disciplined Disciple Artist,” Artists in Christian Testimony Conference, Nashville, TN (August 14, 2008)
  • Retreat Leader: three talks given for Imago Dei Community Church’sartists retreat, Portland, OR (April 25-27, 2008)
  • Plenary Talk: “The Dangers of Art in the Church,” Transforming Culture Symposium, Austin, TX (April 2, 2008)
  • Panel Speaker: Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Arlington, TX (September 28, 2007), keynote delivered by Frank Burch Brown
  • Morning Devotional Speaker: “Transformation of the Heart: Living as a Beloved” and “Transformation of our Hands: The Love of Beauty,” Christians In the Visual Arts (CIVA) biennial conference (June 15-16, 2007)
  • Panel Speaker: Visual Arts Summit, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Grand Rapids, MI (March 18-20, 2007)
  • Keynote Speaker: “The Reconstructive Role of Beauty in our Public Life,” Visual Art Symposium, First Evangelical Free Church, Austin, TX (January 20, 2007)
  • Keynote Speaker: “Beauty and the Art of Schooling,” Regents Christian School, Austin, TX (November 17, 2006)
  • Keynote Speaker: “All Things: Especially the Little Things (in particular, little words): A Meditation on the Art of Encouragement,” Trinity Arts Conference, Dallas, TX (June 16, 2006), with co-speakers poet Robert Cording and scholar Dr. James Patrick
  • Keynote Speaker: “In Defense of the Eye: A Biblical Basis for the Visual Arts in the Church,” Visual Art Symposium, First Evangelical Free Church, Austin, TX (January 21, 2006)
  • A range of talks on the arts to churches, both urban and rural, in Cape Town and Pretoria, South Africa (summer 2005)
  • Chapel Talk: “The Lordship of Christ,” Regents Christian School, Austin, TX (March 24, 2005)

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