These are my academic writings, from Harvard Divinity School, Grinnell College, and Creston High School.
The reader should beware that these papers and projects have not been refereed and do not necessarily reflect the highest academic standards of the schools at which they were written. They may or may not reflect my own highest academic standards, for that matter. Obviously, I considered them good enough to turn in at the time, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I still agree with them (or even that I did at the time), and it certainly doesn't mean I still think they're very good. Caveat lector!
- Harvard Divinity School
- Comparative/World Religions
- Radical Continuity: Non-sacrificial Worship in the Scottish Reformation and at Qumran (23 May 2005)
- Double Ethnography: Ministry as Anthropology of Religion, 4 November 2003
- Pastoral Practices
- Pastoral Care and Counseling Integrative Paper/Final Exam, 17 May 2005
- "Whose Child Is This?": A Presbyterian Service of Worship, 7 January 2005
- Critique and Response: The Spectacle of Worship in a Wired World,7 December 2004
- Prayerful Listening: Change and Conflict in Worship, 30 November 2004
- Reformed and Free Church Chapel Worship, 29 November 2004
- Worship as Encounter with God, 9 November 2004
- Participant/Observation: EarthSpirit Open Samhain Circle, 2 November 2004
- Lectionary-Based Prayers, 31 October 2004, 26 October 2004
- Worship as Eschatology: A Dialogue Between Saliers and Driver, 19 October 2004
- Past Progressive: Verb Tense in a Congregational Worship, 12 October 2004
- Differing Assumptions on Early Christian Worship, 5 October 2004
- Response to Driver, The Magic of Ritual, 28 September 2004
- Scriptural Studies
- Negotiating Families as Plural: Kinship Terms in Numbers 36:1-12, 14 January 2005
- Receiving the Divine Gift: The Study of Scripture, 2 December 2003
- Theology and History
- The Spirit of Human Gifting: God the Receiving in the Divine Gift, 19 May 2004
- To Administer an Open Gift: A Prolegomena to Ministry Studies, 16 January 2004
- Acknowledging History: Looking a Gift Tradition in the Mouth, 16 December 2003
- Responsible Symbolism: Systematic and Practical Theology, 14 October 2003
- Grinnell College
- Creston High School
