Publications
“Overcoming the Violence of ‘Virtuous’ Womanhood: Liberating Women from the Proverbs 31 Paradigm,” in Religions journal, August 2023.
The OneWord Worship Model: A New Paradigm for Church Worship Planning, Cascade Books, September 2023.
Academic lectures and presentations
“The Purpling of Abbott Elementary: Breaking Trope Ropes that Bind Black Women,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November 2023.
“Everything New Is Old Again: Worshiping through an Afrofuturist Lens,” Phillips School of Theology Pastors’ Conference, Atlanta, January 2024.
“The Gift of Lament: A Journey from Struggle to Hope,” panel presentation, Schooler Institute on Preaching, MTSO, March 2024.
Professional and guild activities
Panel presenter, “Worship Planning 101,” with colleagues Constance Cherry and Barbara Day Miller, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Winter Symposium, Grand Rapids, Michigan, February 2024.
Participant in music and poetry presentation on “Theopoetics” with Valerie Bridgeman, Emilie Townes and Willie Jennings, Society for the Study of Black Religion Annual Meeting, April 2024.
Guest artist with Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, presenting “Come, Taste and See: Wellbeing and the Arts,” in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Sankofa Center, Oblate School of Religion, San Antonio, April 2024.
“How Black Sacred Music Affirms Full Embodiment and Inclusion,” lecture recital, Institute on Theology and Disability, Boston College, June 2024.
Attended the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, Oxford, UK, August 2024. Invited to serve on the 16th OIMTS Institute Planning Committee.
Church and popular speaking
Gave Worship Education presentation at Winter Council Meeting of the Sixth Episcopal District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Warner Robins, Georgia, December 2023.
“No Longer Invisible: Faith and Religion,” closing worship sermon at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology Disabilities Conference, March 2024.
Preached at Mt. Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in celebration of the 40th pastoral anniversary of Anthony Bennett, May 2024.
Preached Senior Saints Sunday, St. Thomas African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Roseboro, North Carolina, June 2024.
Served as music coordinator for the Sixth Episcopal District at two West and North Georgia Region Annual Conferences, July 2024.
Preached for Missionary March Worship Service at the West Georgia Region Annual Conference, July 2024.
Other activities
Awarded the Bishops Marshall Gilmore and Othal H. Lakey Clergy Service Award from the Phillips School of Theology/ITC for outstanding service and support to the seminary, January 2024.
Commissioned to write a theme song, “We Are Children Who Deserve Your Love,” for the Interfaith Children’s Movement, debuted at annual meeting in Atlanta, October 2024.
Publications
“The Dobbs Decision, God, and Moral Conscience,” in Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024.
“Embodiment, Identity, and Sexuality: Reproductive and Sexual Justice and Theological Anthropology,” in Searching for Future in the Past: Reclaiming Feminist Theological Visions, T&T Clark, 2024.
Academic lectures and presentations
One-on-one videotaping with Grace Kao on how she used the reproductive justice theoretical framework to ground her book, My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy, Marty Center for Religion, University of Chicago, January 2024.
Panel presentation on religion, ethics and abortion at a symposium on religious freedom and abortion rights sponsored by Case Western Reserve University School of Law, April 2024.
Speaker on panel about Christian nationalism and human rights at Make It Work Nevada, July 2024.
Speaker on panel at NAACP Convention sponsored by National Women’s Law Center. Presentation on attacks on democracy, justice, and Christian nationalism, July 2024.
Professional and guild activities
Participated in a convening at Chicago Theological Seminary, a part of a committee of theologians and ethicists planning for new Social Ethics and Organizing and Interest group at the January 2025 Society for Christian Ethics conference, January 2024.
Church and popular speaking
Moral Monday CT podcast, hosted by Bishop John Selders. Spoke to audience about Christian ethics and the role of the prophets, June, 2024.
Other activities
Featured in documentary about the founding mothers of the reproductive justice movement. The video is being produced by In Our Own Voices: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, February 2024.
Honored at the 30th Anniversary of Reproductive Justice gala for being one of the 12 founding mothers of the reproductive justice movement, June 2024. Acknowledged in gala video from Vice President Kamala Harris as one of the key leaders in the reproductive justice movement.
Invited to attend convening at the White House with other activists around access to reproductive health care, June, 2024.
Publications
Commentary on Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67, Workingpreacher.org, July 9, 2023.
Commentary on Genesis 25:19-34, Workingpreacher.org, July 16, 2023.
Commentary on Genesis 28:10-19a, Workingpreacher.org, July 23, 2023.
Commentary on Genesis 29:15-28, Workingpreacher.org, July 30, 2023.
Academic lectures and presentations
“Repairing the Breach, Restoring the Streets: The Academy & the Church Working Together,” 43rd Frank B. Mitchell, Jr. Lecture, held at Pinn Memorial Baptist Church in Philadelphia, for Palmer Theological Seminary, Feb. 2, 2024.
Lecturer and preacher, Trout Lectures in Preaching at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Capital University, Columbus. Two lectures: “Arguing with God in a Sermon: Job as Theologian” and “Arguing with God and Winning: The Sermon Full of Questions and Promises.” Sermon: “Faithfully Complaining to God.” April 11-12, 2024.
Professional and guild activities
Steering Committee member, Womanist Interpretation Group, Society of Biblical Literature, 2022-25.
Reappointed as judge for a second 2-year term, American Academy of Religion’s Textual Studies Book Award Jury, 2024-26.
Reappointed to the Editorial Board of Homiletic (The Journal of the Academy of Homiletics), for 2024-27.
Steering Committee member, Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, Society of Biblical Literature, 2018-24.
Participant, Society for Biblical Literature Workshop “Teaching the Bible to Multiple Publics,” Nov. 11, 2023; Jan. 30, Feb. 27, and March 19, 2024.
American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Nov. 17-21, 2023.
Academy of Homiletics, Atlanta, Nov. 29-Dec. 5, 2023.
Board member, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Chicago, Feb. 19-22, 2024. Resigned from the board in 2024 after 20 years of service.
Black Methodist for Church Renewal Gathering, Cincinnati, March 6-9, 2024.
Director and poet, dinner theater for the Society for the Study of Black Religion Annual Meeting, Nashville, March 20-23, 2024.
Association of Theological Schools, Biennial Meeting of Presidents and Deans of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, Atlanta, June 18-19, 2024.
Church and popular speaking
Lecturer, The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries Conference, Las Vegas, July 5-8, 2023.
Evening preacher, “Searching for the Soul of Black Preaching,” at the Black Theology and Leadership Institute, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, July 16-21, 2023.
Preacher, the historic Evangelical Lutheran Church of Geneva (English language), July 30, 2023.
Preacher, installation service for elder in full connection, Rev. Annettra Jones, senior pastor at Faith UMC, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Aug. 11, 2023.
Preacher of the week, Lakeside Chautauqua, Ohio, Aug. 27, 2023.
Chapel preacher, Gertrude Hotchkiss Heyn Memorial Chapel, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, Sept. 13, 2023.
Final reflections, Fishing Differently Conference, an entrepreneurial gathering for ministries seeking to impact their communities, Sept. 20-22, 2023.
Dean for seminary students, Christian Unity Gathering for the National Council of Churches, Washington, D.C., Oct. 10-12, 2023.
Instructor, “Sacred Conversations to End Racism,” two 90-minute sessions, for Education for Faithful Action of the National Ministries of the United Church of Christ, online, Nov. 28, 2023.
Workshop leader, Harmonize your Life Wellness Conference, for the Dr. Toni Ministries Gathering, Montego Bay, Jamaica, Jan. 4-8, 2024.
Conversation with the congregation: “The State of Theological Education,” West Berlin Presbyterian Church, Delaware, Ohio, Jan. 21, 2024.
Preacher, Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Columbus, March 3, 2024.
Preacher, North Broadway UMC, Columbus, March 10, 2024.
Bible study teacher, “Our Faith: As Told by Black Women,” Lenten and Women’s History Series, Kenwood United Church of Christ, Chicago, March 27, 2024.
Speaker, “Celebrate the Diversity and Strength of Women: My Story,” Women of Diversity Brunch honoring Women’s History Month, Otterbein University, Delaware, Ohio, March 25, 2024.
Womanist Leadership Conclave, Austin, Texas, April 15-17, 2024.
Preacher, Family Fellowship Church, Columbus, April 21, 2024.
Preacher, the historic West Hunter Baptist Church, Atlanta, April 28, 2024.
Preacher, Mt. Aery Baptist Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut, May 12, 2024.
“Womanist Bible Talk: A Podcast for Womanist Bible Readers and Friends, Episode 8: Isaiah, Metaphors, Children, and Corporeal Punishment,” Conversation regarding my essay in Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse, edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace, June 7, 2024.
Lecturer, “When Trust is All You Have Left,” Multi-Generational Vacation Bible School, Oakley Full Gospel Baptist Church, Columbus, June 17, 2024.
Plenary leader and preacher for the Jarena Lee Preaching Academy of WomanPreach! Held at MTSO, June 23-29, 2024.
Scholar/activist roundtable: “Pride as Protest and Ekklesia (Gathering), Then and Now,” Sponsored by the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice, June 27, 2024.
Other activities
Visited the Ecumenical Institute at Château de Bossey of the World Council of Churches, attached to the University of Geneva with an MTSO D.Min. cohort. Served as one of the professors on the trip, July 27-Aug. 5, 2023.
Co-director on the five-year Enfleshing Witness Preaching Project, a $1.25 million Compelling Preaching Initiative funded by Lilly Endowment Inc., St. Luke Episcopal Church, Atlanta. Awarded in September 2023.
Elected to the University Senate of the United Methodist Church during the 2024 General Conference for the 2025-28 quadrennium, April 23-May 3, 2024.
Appointed to the Advisory Committee for the Faith in Public Life/Faith in Public Life Action National Coalition.
Academic lectures and presentations
“#golaydown: Viral Musicking, Digital Antiphony, and Collaborative Performances of Virtual Spirituals on TikTok,” presentation at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November 2023.
“#RIPBlackTwitter, #twitterhomegoingservice, and Mourning Memes: Twitter’s Digital Apocalypse and Black Twitter’s Irreverent Religious Protest,” presentation at American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, November 2023.
Book panel respondent, Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty by Levi Checketts, Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, April 2024.
Participant, Food, Wealth, and Ecological Well-Being Program, Ecowomanist Collective Workshop, School of Divinity, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, May 2024.
Participant, Digital Ethics and Embodiment Project, Stead Center for Ethics and Values, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, June 2024.
Professional and guild activities
Member, Board of Directors, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, 2021-24.
Founding member, Technology, Ecology, Religion and Art (TERA) Collective, 2021-24.
Church and popular speaking
“Liberation After AI? The Rise of Intelligent Machines and the Future of Social Justice,” Black History Month lecture at Urban Missiology, February 2024.
Other activities
Co-taught virtual digital humanities research project “Religion and/as Big Data: Mothers in the Movement” with Roseta Ross of Spelman College and Claudia Engel of Stanford University, June 3-21, 2024.
Publications
Undoing Conquest: Ancient Israel, the Bible, and the Future of Christianity, Orbis Books, February 2024.
Academic lectures and presentations
“Undoing Conquest,” author talk hosted by Professor Yara González-Justiniano, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Feb. 29, 2024.
“Let's Get Dirty! Archeology and Theology in Dialogue,” Weslyan Theological Conference, March 1, 2024, Nashville.
“Undoing Conquest,” WATERtalk, video interview hosted by Mary Hunt, March 6, 2024.
Professional and guild activities
Publications coordinator, Association of Practical Theology.
Attended AAR/SBL.
Church and popular speaking
Orbis Author One-on-One Interview with Publisher Robert Ellsberg, Feb. 27, 2024.
Hosted three Undoing Conquest webinars, one-hour informational sessions and Q&A for book and course, the Seeker’s Table, Feb. 27, March 21 and April 23, 2024.
Undoing Conquest Book Launch, book talk in conversation with biblical scholar Brandon Simonson of Boston University and Anna Woofenden of St. John’s Episcopal Church, held at St. John’s, Northampton, Massachusetts, April 10, 2024.
Taught Undoing Conquest public theology course, three sessions, the Seeker’s Table, April 29, May 5 and May 11, 2024.
“Undoing the Bible’s Conquest Story with Dr. Kate Common,” One Question with Pastor Adam podcast, May 28, 2024.
Other activities
“So, You Want to Get a Ph.D?” Two-hour-long seminar explaining Ph.D. processes of application and program, taught to students during South Africa cross-cultural immersion trip, January 2024.
Publications
“The United States vs. Hagar and the Right to Choose,” in Encounter Journal, Christian Theological Seminary, 2023.
“True Disciple: Minister Louis Farrakhan’s Eulogy of Dr. Clay Evans and the Emergence of The Son of Abraham Rhetoric,” in The Art of Black Preaching and the Rhetoric of the Black Sermon, forthcoming 2024.
Academic lectures and presentations
“The History and Theology of African American Preaching,” Compelling Preaching Initiative instructor, Christian Theological Seminary, May 2024.
“Hallelujah Anyhow: Preaching Despite the Bones” (sermon), “A Worthy Call” (sermon) and “Preaching Despite the Bones” (lecture), Schooler Preaching Institute, MTSO, February 2024.
Church and popular speaking
Weekly sermons as senior pastor of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Columbus.
Covenant United Church of Christ, Chicago, January 2024.
My father-in-law’s funeral, Memphis, February 2024.
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York, April 2024.
Greater 12th Baptist Church, Columbus, May 2024.
St. Paul Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina, July 2024.
Bates Memorial Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky, July 2024.
Bible Tabernacle Christian Church, York, Pennsylvania, September 2024.
New Calvary Baptist Church, Norfolk, Virginia, October 2024.
Other activities
Traveled to Ghana, February 2024.
Toured the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, February 2024.
Publications
Editor, with Kristine Henriksen Garroway and John W. Martens, Violence Against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible: Between Trauma and Resilience, London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2024.
“Isaiah in Intertextual Perspective,” in Cambridge Companion to Isaiah, edited by Christopher B. Hays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
“E Pluribus Unum: Finding Intertexual Threads That Unite the Book of Isaiah,” in The Unity in the Book of Isaiah edited by Benedetta Rossi, Dominic S. Irudayaraj and Gina Hens-Piazza, London: T&T Clark, 2024.
“Two Brothers, Two Communities, Double Themes: Reading the Jacob-Esau Narrative in Dialogue with the Korean Hungbu-Nolbu Folktale,” in Theology of the Hebrew Bible, Volume 2: Texts, Readers, and Their Worlds edited by Soo Kim Sweeney, David Frankel and Marvin A. Sweeney, Atlanta: SBL Press, 2024.
“‘Seed of Babylon’ (Zeru-Babel), ‘Seed of Cyrus’ (Zera‘-Koreš), or ‘Seed of Holiness’ (Zera‘-Qodeš)?: Readers in Isaiah vis vis-à-vis Readers in Ezra-Nehemiah,” in The Function of the Reader in the Formation and the Reception in the Book of Isaiah, edited by Archibald van Wieringen and Sehoon Jang, Leiden: Brill, 2024.
“Is the Book of Jonah an Inner-Biblical Exegesis on Isaiah 36-39?” in Isaiah and Intertextuality: Isaiah amid Israel’s Scriptures, edited by Wilson de Angelo Cunha and Andrew T. Abernethy, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024.
Academic lectures and presentations
Presider, special joint session with a tribute to Walter Brueggemann, “The Prophetic Imagination: A Tribute and Reassessment,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 2023.
Professional and guild activities
Editor, Hebrew Bible Series, Resources for Biblical Study, SBL Press.
Co-chair, Israelite Prophetic Literature unit at the Society of Biblical Literature.
President, Korean Biblical Colloquium.
Editorial Board, Journal for the Korean Society of the Old Testament Studies.
Wabash Peer Mentoring Cluster (“From Striving to Thriving: Korean American Men at Midcareer”).
Church and popular speaking
Guest preacher at local churches, including Korean Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Marysville First Presbyterian Church and Ostrander Presbyterian Church.
Presenter, Toro Nagashi Interfaith Peace Prayer, Chicago, Aug. 16, 2023.
Other activities
Attended opening day, Parliament of the World’s Religions, Chicago, Aug. 14, 2023.
Co-speaker (with Fulgence Nyengele), “Conference on Trauma and Community Wellbeing,” Thriving in Ministry, MTSO, Oct. 19-20, 2023.
Publications
“United Methodist Doctrine After Disaffiliation: Learning to Teach Our Teachings,” in Methodist Review 16, 2024.
Academic lectures and presentations
Response to The Power of the God Who Can’t: God Always Does Everything God Can Do, by Russ Dean, at Open and Relational Online Conference (Ortline 24), Feb. 23, 2024.
Professional and guild activities
North American co-chair, Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, Aug. 4-11, 2024, Oxford, UK.
Publications
“Attending to Religion in Religiously Competent Health Care,” in Bio Quarterly: A Publication of the Bioethics Network of Ohio 34, No. 1, 2024
“Aging with the Buddha: Observations from a Christian Seminary Professor and Scholar of Buddhism,” four-part blog post series, Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, beginning Sept. 13, 2023.
“When Congregations Share Space, It’s Not All About the Money,” for studyingcongregations.org, July 12, 2024.
Academic lectures and publications
Presenter, Toro Nagashi Interfaith Peace Prayer, Chicago, Aug. 16, 2023.
Keynote speaker, McNamara Workshop in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Loyola University Chicago, April 18, 2024.
Other activities
Attended opening day, Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago, Aug. 14, 2023.
Attended Interfaith Association of Central Ohio’s online forum, “How to Do Interfaith Engagement?” Dec. 13, 2023.
Attended Religions for Peace USA’s webinar “Peace Based on Justice in the Holy Land,” Dec. 21, 2023.
Academic lectures and presentations
“Cultivating Postcolonial Consciousness: Reading John Wesley’s Thoughts Upon Slavery Side by Side with Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth with Eyes on DR Congo, Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, Practical Theology Working Group, Aug. 5-11, 2024.
Professional and guild activities
Society for Pastoral Theology, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Book signing for my book on United Methodism in DR Congo, with the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church General Conference, Charlotte, April 30-May 1, 2024.
Planning meeting for the 15th Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies (virtual).
Church and popular speaking
Preached at Ebenezer United Methodist Church, Columbus, Feb. 11, 2024.
Other activities
Planned and hosted the Thriving in Ministry Retreat, Jan. 25-27, 2024.
CPE Advisory Committee, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Jan. 29, April 29 and Sept. 16, 2024.
Lilly Grant Ecumenical Affinity Group Meetings (virtual) in February, March, April, May and September, 2024.
Alford-Cantlin Fellowship D.Min. Luncheon, West Ohio Conference, Columbus, April 18, 2024.
West Ohio Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Columbus, May 29-31, 2024.
Society for Pastoral Theology, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 5-7, 2024.
Attended the Lilly Grant Ecumenical Affinity Group Retreat, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 25-27, 2024.
Co-led the Thriving in Ministry Spiritual Renewal Retreat (with Paul Kim and Eugene Gibson), MTSO, July 11-12, 2024.
Convener, Practical Theology Working Group, 15th Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, Aug. 4-11, 2024.
Publications
“The Worldwide Nature of The United Methodist Church: A Historical and Missiological Reflection,” in Methodism and American Empire: Reflections on Decolonizing the Church, edited by David W. Scott and Filipe Maia, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2023.
Professional and Guild Activities
Convener, Association of Pan-Wesleyan Missiologists, June 13, 2024.
Church and popular speaking
“A Time of Waiting,” sermon at Amen Methodist Church, Seoul, South Korea, July 16, 2023.
“The Journey of Faith,” sermon at Korean Church of Columbus, Feb. 11, 2024.
“Crucified with Christ,” sermon at Bethel International UMC, Columbus, May 5, 2024.
Other activities
Contributing editor, International Bulletin of Mission Research.
Academic lectures and presentations
“The Process of Addiction Assessment,” Alternative Paths, Medina, Ohio, Sept. 13, 2024.
“The Playfulness of Spirituality: Using Play in Therapy to Enhance Meaning and Mental Health,” All-Ohio Counselors Conference, Oct. 29, 2024.
Professional and guild activities
ACPE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, May 21, 2024.
Other activities
Weekly consultation with the staff and clients of Psychotherapy Care and Counseling Services, Mutare, Zimbabwe.
Publications
“Systemic Benevolence: Notes on the History of Congregational Fundraising in Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist Churches,” harvardsquarelibrary.org, April 2024.
“Enthralling Narratives: The Theological Gothic and the Myth of Disenchantment,” in Narrative Knows No Boundaries, edited by Ann K. Ferrell and Martha C. Sims, Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, fall 2024.
Academic lectures and presentations
“Poetic Necessities: Professions of Faith in Non-Creedal Universalism” National Universalist Convocation, Sept. 21, 2024.
Professional and guild activities
Director, Harvard Square Library (digital library for Unitarian Universalist history).
Advisory Board member, James Luther Adams Foundation.
Advisory Board member, Unitarian Universalist Historical Society.
Editorial Board member, Journal of Unitarian Universalist History.
Church and popular speaking
Preach every Sunday at the North Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Lewis Center, Ohio.
Publications
“On Pauline Indeterminacy,” in Recovering an Undomesticated Apostle: Essays on the Legacy of Paul, edited by Christopher B. Zeichmann and John A. Egger. Studies in Christianity and Judaism. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023.
Review of Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation by Ari Mermelstein, in Review of Biblical Literature, October 2023.
Review of How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others by T.M. Luhrmann, in Biblical Interpretation 32, 2024.
Academic lectures and presentations
“Biography, Theology, and Ethics in Romans 15,” Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Münster, June 27, 2024.
Church and popular speaking
“Paul, Prison, and the Justice of God: Reading the New Testament in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration,” East Shore UMC, Euclid, Ohio, Sept. 30, 2023.
“Contentment and Constraint: Reading Philippians in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration,” First Mennonite Church of Bluffton, Ohio, Jan. 27-28, 2024.
“Justice and the Prison in Ancient Christianity.” Westerville Community United Church of Christ, Feb. 1, 2024.
“Professional Mourners, Grieving Mothers, and the Divine Politics of Lament,” Schooler Institute on Preaching, MTSO, Feb. 28-29, 2024.
Other activities
Visiting research fellow, Religion and Politics Cluster of Excellence, University of Münster, June-July 2024.
Publications
“Distorted Imagination: Land, Food, and Economies,” in Liberating People, Planet, and Religion: Intersections of Ecology, Economics, and Christianity, edited by Terra Rowe and Joerg Rieger, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, forthcoming November 2024.
Academic lectures and presentations
“Climate Change Responses: Food Sovereignty and Animals within Regenerative Agriculture,” Rome and Assisi Spirituality and Sustainability Conference, June 2023.
“Climate Anxiety and Hopeful Vision” Duke University, Social 210: Contemporary Social Problems, guest of Maria Febbo, Sept. 5, 2023.
“Institutional Commitments to Sustainable Practices at MTSO,” Food, Faith, Farms Conference, Interfaith Food Cooperative, Petaluma, California, May 8, 2024.
Professional and guild activities
American Academy of Religion, November 2023.
Church and popular speaking
“Uncomfortable Choices: Climate Justice for Generational Thriving,” Sprague Lecture, North Broadway UMC, Columbus, Sept. 30, 2023.
“Faith and Resilient Farming,” Ohio Farmer’s Union meeting at MTSO, January 2024.
“Living into Resilient Church in Challenging Times,” Faith United UMC, North Canton, Ohio, March 2024.
Other activities
Executive Committee member, Agroecosystems Management Program, Ohio State University, August 2020-present.
Pastoral Influence for a Climate Changed World, retreat for pastors and lay people, planned and led in partnership with Creation Justice Ministries and the Anabaptist Climate Collaborative, Oct. 16-18, 2023.
Lilly Pathways grant leadership, through May 2024.
Board member, Hispanic Scholars Program, member of three-person team writing grants for program development.