"The
Price-LeBar Chair in Christian Education Inaugural Lecture," given
at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, February 6, 2008.
“Déjà vu
all over again: Trends in Christian education today and 100 years ago” at
the North American Professors of Christian Education annual conference,
San Jose
,
California
, October, 2007.
"The
Spiritual Nurture of Young Children" and "A
history of the study of children's spirituality and religion," the
2006-7 Latham Lecture and Seminar on the Church's Ministry to Early
Childhood, Nazarene Theological Seminary,
Kansas City, Missouri, April, 2007.
"Sociology and
Christian Education," at the North
American Professors of Christian Education annual conference, Denver,
Colorado, October, 2006.
"The
history of children's spiritual development: Research in religion,
spirituality, and theology," at the second Children's
Spirituality Conference: Christian Perspectives, River Forest, Illinois,
June, 2006. [I was on the planning team for this conference.]
"A
long and short history of children's spiritual development," at the North
American Professors of Christian Education annual conference, Rochester,
Minnesota, October, 2005.
"The
spiritual development of children," at the Wilson
Institute for Pentecostal Studies, Costa Mesa, California, October, 2005.
"Numinous research with children: Topic and
method," at the North American Professors
of Christian Education annual conference, Boston, Massachusetts, October,
2003.
"Roundtable on children's spirituality research
methods," at the first Children's Spirituality Conference: Christian
Perspectives, River Forest, Illinois, June, 2003. [I was on the planning team
for this conference]
"Numinous research with children: Topic and
method," at the first Children's Spirituality Conference: Christian
Perspectives, River Forest, Illinois, June, 2003.
"Children's spiritual development," at the
Association of Christian Schools International regional conference, Anaheim,
California, November, 2002.
"Qualitative research in Christian education,"
primary presenter with Ted Ward, at the North American Professors of Christian
Education annual conference, San Diego, California, October, 2002.
"Rituals
in a school hallway: Evidence of a latent spirituality of children,”
at the Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative
Studies, Athens,
Georgia, January, 2001. This was later elaborated into an
ERIC document.
Guest
speaker for a session titled “Emergent
spirituality in elementary-aged children”
for a graduate level course in psychology of religion at the Psychological
Studies Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 2001.
Presented
papers titled "Ceremony
and Ritual in a School Hallway,"
and "Child-Assisted
Data Analysis in Children's Spirituality Research,"
First International Conference on Children's Spirituality, University College
Chichester, West Sussex, UK, July, 2000.
Conducted a
one week course titled "Research
on Children's Spiritual Development"
and faculty development sessions related to qualitative research at Talbot
Theological Seminary of Biola University, La Mirada, CA, June, 2000.
"Qualitative
Research Methods in Psychology,"
presented to the clinical
psychology graduate faculty and students at Wheaton
College, Wheaton, IL,
October 15, 1999.
Contributed
regularly on issues related to research methodology in a think tank for an
ongoing study of children in worship, sponsored by the Center for the
Study of Children's Ethical Development, Concordia
University, River
Forest, IL, October 13-15, 1999.
"Every
Teacher a Research Director,"
faculty development
session, Concordia University, River Forest, IL, October 14, 1999.
"Qualitative
Research Methods in Religious Education,"
faculty development session at the School
of Educational Ministries of Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Fort
Worth, TX, April 23-24, 1999. This workshop was followed by a session with
doctoral faculty on guidelines for proposing and evaluating qualitative
research. In addition I provided extensive consultation on a qualitative
research proposal related to Russian-American church cross-cultural
understanding and cooperative efforts, and presented an overview of
qualitative methodology for graduate students. [Video
of the student session is available online: part
1, part 2, part
3, part 4].
"Peer
Culture and School Culture Theory: Implications for Educational Ministry with
Children"
(with appendage on children's spiritual experience), North
American Professors of Christian Education
annual conference, Nashville, TN, October, 1998.
"Qualitative
Research Methods," [Audio available online: part
1, part
2, part
3, part
4] a four-hour
pre-conference session at the international convention of the Christian
Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS),
Chattanooga, TN, March, 1998. Audio recordings of
these sessions are available online by clicking on the title above. I included
a paper titled "The
Beginnings of a Christian Perspective on Qualitative Research"
during that session. I've been a member of CAPS for fifteen years.
"Conducting
Research with Children: Methods and Potential Applications in Educational
Ministry Contexts"
presented at the North
American Professors of Christian Education (NAPCE) annual conference, Fort Mills, SC, October, 1997.
"Proverbs
1-9 and Methods of Research,"
presented at the annual conference of the American
Scientific Affiliation,
Toronto, Canada, July, 1996.
"Using
the Bible in Introductory Sociology at Student Initiative,"
presented at the
annual conference of the Association of Christians Teaching Sociology (ACTS),
Rome, GA, June 8, 1996.
"An
Elementary School Hallway: A Ritual Highway,"
presented at the
annual conference of the Qualitative
Research in Education Interest Group (QUIG), Athens, GA, January, 1995.
"The
Sociology of Religious Compassion," presented
at a seminar sponsored by The University of Alabama,
Birmingham, 1990, and
later published as a chapter of a book that developed out of the conference.