Conference Presentations
2023 “A Handmaid’s Tale? The Body of Mary and the Formation of Christian Theology” at Female Corporeality and Religion conference, Leuven, Belgium. 3 June
2022 Respondent, “Review Panel for Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts (eds. Christy Cobb and Eric Vanden Eykel) at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Denver, CO. 21 November
2022 “Assaulting the Virgin: Reassessing Salome’s ‘Examination’ of Mary in the Protevangelium of James” at the Southeast Regional SBL, Virtual. 12 March.
2022 “How a Second-Century Christian Text Hides Sexual Violence” at the Religion and Sexual Abuse Conference, Riverside, CA. 5 March
2021 “The Apocryphal Afterlives of Matthew’s Magi” at the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Virtual. 13 March
2018 Panelist, “The SBL as Male-Dominated Space” at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Denver, CO. 19 November
2018 “Forgiveness or a Flamethrower? The Judgment and Redemption of Salome in the Protevangelium of James at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Denver, CO. 19 November
2017 “Then Suddenly, Everything Resumed Its Course”: The Suspension of Time in the Protevangelium of James Reconsidered” at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Boston, MA.
2016 “Virginity, the Temple Veil, and their Demise: A Hypothetical Reader’s Perspective on Mary’s Work in the Protevangelium of James” at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Atlanta, GA. 20 November
2015 “Spear Wounds and Sleigh Bells: Believing and Seeing in the Gospel of John and The Polar Express” at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Atlanta, GA. 21 November
2015 “You Shall Die on the Mountain? On Moses’ Presence in the Synoptic Transfiguration Narratives” at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Atlanta, GA. 21 November
2015 “Expanding the Apocryphal Corpus: Some ‘Novel’ Suggestions” at the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium, Toronto, Ontario. 25 September
2013 “A Virgin Shall Spin and Bear a Son: Reconsidering Mary’s Work in the Protevangelium of James” at the Annual Meeting of the SBL, Baltimore, MD. 24 November
2013 “Whose Love? An Exegetical Analysis of Bernard Lonergan’s Use of Romans 5:5” at Lonergan on the Edge, Milwaukee, WI. 20 September
2012 “The Virgin, the Moirae, and the Birth of the Messiah:Toward a Christological Understanding of the Protevangelium Jacobi”at the Midwest Regional SBL,Bourbonnais, IL.12 February
2011 “The Wine of Cana and the ὄξος of the Cross: The Hour of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel” at the Upper Midwest Regional SBL, St. Paul, MN. 2 April
2010 Response to Jackson Lashier, “Irenaeus on the Generation of the Logos,” Jewish Roots of Christian Mysticism panel, “Logos Theologies of the Second Century,” Milwaukee, WI. 12 April
2010 “Koheleth, Toil, and the Prodigal Son: Reading Luke’s Parable through the Eyes of the Teacher” at the Upper Midwest Regional SBL, St. Paul, MN. 10 April
2009 “Be Imitators of Me, as I am of Christ: René Girard’s Mimetic Theory in St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians” at the Upper Midwest Regional SBL, St. Paul, MN. 28 March
Other Presentations
2021 Panelist, BRANE Collective Primary Text Lab on Protevangelium of James. 14 December
2021 “The Origins of Christmas” as PUBlic Theology, Martinsville, VA. 8 December
2021 “The Mark of the Beast” at Profs and Pints (virtual). 23 May
2020 “Matthew’s Magi” at PUBlic Theology, Martinsville, VA 9 December
2020 “Jesus, Death, Anger, Doubt, and Holy Week” at PUBlic Theology, Martinsville, VA. 8 April
2019 “Bible Scholars: What are they good for?” at PUBlic Theology at Mountain Valley Brewing Company, Martinsville, VA. 8 May
2018 “Jesus: A Messiah in Our Image?” at PUBlic Theology at Mountain Valley Brewing Company, Martinsville, VA. 14 November
2017 “Rabbi Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Christianity” and “Anti-Semitism in the New Testament,” at Temple Emanuel Adult Education, Roanoke, VA. 7 and 14 November
2016 “Story and Storytelling in Early Christianity,” at Temple Emanuel Adult Education, Roanoke, VA. 1 November
2015 “Tell Your Girlfriend that She Looks Like a Horse, and Other Biblical Dating Advice,” at the Ferrum College “Inquiring Minds” series, Ferrum, VA. 21 October
2015 “Jesus: A Messiah in Our Image?” at the Ferrum College “Inquiring Minds” series, Ferrum, VA. 1 April
2014 “The Rich Man and Lazarus: What Can Historical-Critical Methodology Reveal?” at the Marquette University Scripture Project, Milwaukee, WI. 16 April