Publications (pdfs available on request)
“McCormick Seminary and the Great Fire,” In Trust (October 2021).
“George L. Robinson” and “John Timothy Stone” extended bio-bibliographical essays. Faces of Fundamentalism. George Lutzweiler, editor. 2021.
“The Reformations Continue.” In Reformations Reset. McCormick Seminary, 2018., pp. 27-33.
Review of C. Harline. A World Ablaze: the Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation. NY: Oxford U.P., 2017. In Journal of Presbyterian History.Fall 2018.
Review of D. MacCulloch. All Things Made New: The Reformation and Its Legacy. NY: Oxford U.P., 2016. In Journal of Presbyterian History. Fall 2018.
Guest editor. “A Breadth of Belonging: Navigating Interreligious and Intercultural Spaces.” Currents in Theology and Mission. Spring 2021.
“In Memoriam: Earle Hilgert.” McCormick News. January 2021.
“Dual Belonging: Essays from a Lively Spring Conference,” [editor’s introduction of essays from 2019 conference on dual belonging."] Currents in Theology and Mission 48, no. 1 (January 2021),5-6.
“Rumi and Haji Bektash Veli as Mediating Leaders in the Islamization of Anatolia 1100 c.e. - 1350 c.e.” Currents in Theology and Mission 48, no. 1 (January 2021), 19-26. [link] [pdf]
“Code Meshing and Code Switching. Featherbricks 3 (December 2020-January 2021), 3-5.
“‘A Continent Without a History’?: Rendering Africa Visible in Recent Church History Textbooks” in Knowledge Economy and Nigeria’s National Security: Essays in Honor of Basorun Seinde Agrobofa. (Abuja, Nigeria: Society for Peace Studies and Practice, 2015).
“Not a Festschrift, but a Streitschrift for Calvin: Bolsec’s Histoire.” In Subject to None, Servant of All: Festschrift for Kurt Hendel. co-edited by Ken Sawyer and Peter Vethanayagamony (Lutheran University Press, 2015). [pdf]
“Christianity in Egypt and North Africa” in African Christianity: An African Story, edited by O. Kalu (Pretoria: U of Pretoria Press, 2005), new edition (Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2007).
“Libraries and Multicultural Theological Education: Beyond Nostalgia.” in Shaping Beloved Community: Multicultural Theological Education. edited by David Esterline and O. Kalu (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2006), pp. 71-82.
History of McCormick Seminary (1975-2005) with G.D. Little, 2008.
“Colonial American Presbyterian history” Encyclopedia of Religion in America, edited by Charles Lippy, et al (Washington, D.D.: CQ Press, 2009).
Online textbook [pre-Reformation materials author] T. Dowley, History of Christianity: an introduction (Fortress Press, Inkling Edition, 2014).
“Observing Multiculturalism” in Journal of Religious & Theological Information 6, numbers 3 and 4 (2004), pp. 13-32.
Biographical articles on Edward Scribner Ames, Frank Hugh Foster, Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Gerald Birney Smith, Williston Walker, and Herbert Lockwood Willet in Dictionary of Christianity in America (1990).
"Questions of Presbyterian History and Polity." McCormick Perspectives (Winter 1996), pp. 3-4.
Review of Carl Trueman, Luther's Legacy in Journal of Religion (January 1997).
"'Deliver Me from My Enemies': Calvin's Opponents and Biographers" in Honoring John Godbey (Chicago: Meadville Lombard Seminary, 1997), pp.17-27.
“Historical Aspects of Urban Ministry.” McCormick Perspectives (Fall 1997), pp. 5-6.
“Reformed Spirituality as Rediscovery.” [with V. Smith] McCormick Perspectives (Winter 1998), pp. 5-6.
Biographical articles on John Timothy Stone, Will H. Hays, Cleland Boyd McAfee, Thomas Skinner, Jr., and Charles Henry Parkhurst in the Dictionary of American Presbyterian and Reformed History (InterVarsity Press,1999).
Review of R. Kingdon, et al. Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin, vol. 1 in Journal of Religious Studies (2001).
Review of M. Dever, Richard Sibbes: Puritanism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England. Journal of Religion 83, no. 3 (2003).
Review of C.E. Harline, Miracles at The Jesus Oak by Craig E. Harline. Christian Century 120, no. 18 (September 6, 2003).
Review of D. H. Bays and G. Wacker, editors, Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History. International Bulletin of Missionary Research 28, no. 2 (April 2004).
"A Bibliography of the Works of Jerald C. Brauer." Church History 60, (June 1991), pp. 263-270.
Review of C. Pinnock, Tracking the Maze in Currents for Theology and Mission (Winter 1992).
"A History of Congregational Studies: Can Research and Practice Meet?" [with Hugh Halverstadt]. (July 1993).
"A Report from Brazil." McCormick Notes (Fall 1994).
Review of M.G. Hall, The Last American Puritan in Christian Century (October 1988).
Select Presentations
“Presbyterians: Origins and Trajectories.” Chicago Jewish-Presbyterian Dialogue. November, 2020.
“(Re)approaching Reinhold Niebuhr.” McCormick class guest lecture. December, 2020.
“Penitential Prayer: Voices from Stateville.” December, 2020.
“Expanding the Frame” Lake Forest Presbyterian Church September, 2020.
“Reading the Church Mothers and Fathers with the Brothers of Stateville.” Midwest MLA. November 2019.
“Lane Seminary Library and the Promise of Access.” Newberry Library Seminar on antebellum Seminary Libraries. September, 2019.
“Those people from ‘That Century’: Historical Approaches to Theological Liberalism.” 2017.
“Hybridity and Islamization: Case studies from Anatolia.” Niagara Foundation, Chicago. November 2012.
“’Traveling with Partisans’: Advocacy, prejudice, and perspective.” McCormick Alumni Days, October 2012.
“Reinhold Niebuhr and Political Realism: Past and Present.” American Theological Society, October, 2006.
“RevisitingThe Fundamentals” – American Religion Workshop, University of Chicago Divinity School January 2005.
“’Encouraging Initiative, Confronting Inertia’: Four Common IT Administrative Errors” presentation to “Theology in Cyberspace” at Garrett Theological Seminary May 2004.
“The Ecstatic Piety of Increase Mather.” American Academy of Religion. 1999.