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ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Helpers and Donors: Type-casting Moravians in 19th Century Biographies of John Wesley” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, August 2023.

“Imagined Moravians: Print culture, Origin Stories, and Transatlantic Evangelicalism” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, January 2023.

“Digging out the Well: Herrnhut in the Pentecostal Imagination,” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, April 2021.

“”As on the Day of Pentecost”: Moravians, the Holiness Movement, and the Thirteenth of August,” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, October 2016.

“From Heretics to Saints: Moravians in the Evangelical Imagination,” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, October 2012.

“Between Kuyper and Comenius: Could Pietist Virtues be Scholarly Virtues?” Biannual meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, October 2012.

“Pious Prodigals: Sander, Müller, and the Formation of Brethren Identity,” Young Center Conference on Pietist and Anabaptist Intersections in Pennsylvania, June 2012.

“Radical Protestants and the Politics of Empire: Moravian Aspirations in British North America,” Coloquio Internacional: Historia, Protestantismo e Identidad en las Américas, Mexico City, Mexico, October 2011.

“Betwixt and Between: Moravians, Liminality and the Tragic Tale of Jacob Lischy” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music and History, October 2008.

“Winona Lake, Pennsylvania Mennonites, and the Long Arm of Popular Evangelicalism” Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, September 2008.

“Anglo-Moravians and ‘Tennentist’ Propaganda: The Nature of Moravian-New Light Relations in the Delaware Valley, 1741-1748,” Pietism Studies Group in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, January 2008.

“How can this justly be called a catechism?’ Religious Instruction, Confessional Identity and Moravian Itinerants in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies,” Biennial Conference on Moravian History and Music, April 2006.

“The Irregular career of Pennsylvania Minister Jacob Lischy,” Midwest Regional Conference of the American Academy of Religion, April 2005.

“Piety and Ecumenism in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania,” Biannual Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, October 2004.

LECTURES AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS (non-conference)

“The Moravian Church, Billy Sunday, and the Renewal Tradition,” Faculty Scholarship Forum, ��������, Spring 2026.

“When Billy Sunday Comes to Town: Moravians and America’s most Sensational Evangelist,” Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA, November 11, 2025

“Moravians and the Evangelical Question” Walter Vivian Moses Lecture, Moravian Theological Seminary/Institute for Moravian History and World Heritage, October 29, 2025.

“Helpers and Donors: Type-casting Moravians in 19th Century Biographies of John Wesley” Faculty Scholarship Forum, ��������, fall, 2023.

“The Legacy and Spiritual Sentiments of Alexander Mack Jr.” Seventh Brethren World Assembly, Elizabethtown, PA., July 2023.

“Lynching in Kosciusko County, Indiana and its Documentary Challenges” Faculty Scholarship Forum, ��������, fall, 2021.

“From Sexual Deviants to Missionary Saints: How a public relations campaign changed perceptions of 18th century Moravians” Faculty Scholarship Forum, ��������, fall 2015.

“Religious Pacifists and the American Revolution,” Fort Dearborn-Chicago Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, May 2015.

“The Brethren during the American Revolution,” Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church, May 2015.

“True Confessions: Doing Institutional History at the Intersection of Brethrenism and Evangelicalism,” Symposium on Brethren Evangelicalism, Bridgewater College, March 2015.

“The Moravian Diaspora in the Pennsylvania Backcountry,” executive board meeting, Quadrangle Foundation, December 2014.

“Heroes and Heretics: Pietism in the Evangelical Imagination,” Snowden Lecture, Young Center for Pietist and Anabaptist Studies, November 2014.

“Curious Incidents in Pennsylvania’s Religious History,” First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster PA, October 2014.

Respondent for, “Denominational History and Methodology,” Biannual meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, October 2014.

“Historic Religious Roots and the Future of Higher Education: �������� and Theological Seminary,” Invited symposium presenter, Cedarville University, April 2014.

“Community, Family, Individual,” Fifth Brethren World Assembly, Brookville, OH, July 2013.

“Pacifism and Moravians in the Eighteenth Century,” Fort Wayne Seminar in American History, February 2013.

“A Separatist Creed: Grace Seminary and American Fundamentalism,” Heritage Forum, �������� and Seminary, October 2012.

“Pacifism and Moravians in the Eighteenth Century,” Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA, July 2012.

“Pietism in the Evangelical Imagination,” Missionary Church Historical Society meeting, Bethel College, May 2012.

“Anabaptism and Grace Brethren Heritage,” Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church, April 2012.

Invited Respondent for, “Other Voices within Eighteenth-Century Moravian Communities” Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music and History, October 2010.

“What’s Sex and Violence have to do with the Great Awakening?” Faculty Scholarship Forum, ��������, fall 2008.

“Sacred Sex and the Question of Religious Radicalism in Colonial Pennsylvania,” Phi Alpha Theta Induction Meeting, Augustana University, November 2007.

“On the Margins of the Great Awakening: Theological Tensions between the Moravians and the Evangelical Movement,” guest lecture, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, February 2007.

“Lessons in Liminality: Graduate School as Rite of Passage,” Plenary address, Biannual Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History (student conference), September 2006

“The Evangelicalization of American Mennonites,” Religion Graduate Student Organization forum, The University of Iowa, March 2002

POPULAR WRITING

“Remembering revival,” Christian History Magazine 153 (2024).

“How we Talk about the Civil War Matters,” Baptist Standard, February 28, 2022.

“Seek the Way of Peace,” in Christopher Gehrz and Beth Allison Barr, eds., Faith and History: A Devotional (Waco, 1845 Books/Baylor University Press: 2020).

“Before ‘true love waits’ there was Josh McDowell and Petra” Guest Post at The Anxious Bench, January 8, 2019.

“To Celebrate or Not? Memory, Oppression and Luther’s Reformation,” Grace Connect (October 2017).

“Spreading Light in a Dark World: The world wars inspired many Christian relief efforts,” Christian History Magazine 121 (2017).

“Interpreting Our Religious Past: American Evangelicalism and Timothy Dwight,” TEDS Bridge (2000).

Essays in Reference Volumes

“Evangelical Christian Culture and Conspiratorial Tendencies” in Conspiracy Theories: A Reference Handbook, Jeffrey B. Webb, ed. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024).

“Moravians,” in The Encyclopedia of American Religious History: Belief and Society through Time, Gary Scott Smith, ed. (ABC-CLIO, 2020).

“Heresy,” in The Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism, Brenda Brasher and David Levinson, eds. (Berkshire/Routledge, 2001).

Books

Brethren Intersections: History, Identity and Crosscurrents, Jared S. Burkholder, ed. (Brethren Encyclopedia Board, 2020).

Becoming Grace: Seventy-Five Years on the Landscape of Christian Higher Education in America, Jared S. Burkholder and M.M. Norris, eds. (Winona Lake, IN: BMH Books, 2015).

The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism, Jared S. Burkholder and David M. Cramer, eds. (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2012).

Articles and Chapters

“Peter Boehler’s Universalist Letter” in Journal of Moravian History (October, 2023).

“Zebras in the Revolution?: Inspiring Discovery with Digital Moravians in the Classroom,” Journal of Moravian History (October, 2022).

“Unbecoming Heretics: Knowledge, Missionary Stories, and the Legacy of David Cranz in North America” in From Greenland’s Icy Mountains: David Cranz’s 1765 “Historie von Grönland“ and the construction of Knowledge about Greenland, Felicity Jensz and Christina Petterson, eds., (Penn State University Press, 2020).

As on the day of Pentecost: Revivalism, John Greenfield, and the Memory of August 13th, Journal of Moravian History (Winter 2019).

“Moravians Encounter New England’s Radical Evangelicalism,” Journal of Moravian History (Fall 2017).

“True Confessions: Doing Institutional History at the Intersection of Brethrenism and Evangelicalism” Brethren Life and Thought Vol. 61 Supplement (Summer 2016).

“Community, Family, and Individual in Brethren Spirituality” in Brethren Spirituality: How Brethren Conceive of and Practice the Spiritual Life (The Brethren Encyclopedia, 2015).

“Pietist Prodigals and Brethren Identity: Joseph Müller, Sander Mack, and the Moravians,” Brethren Life and Thought (Spring 2013).

“Neither Kriegerisch” nor “Quäkerisch”: Moravians and the Question of Violence in Eighteenth Century Pennsylvania,” Journal of Moravian History 12:2 (December, 2012).

“The Persistent Legacy of ‘Heart Religion’: An Introduction to Pietism,” Reflections: Journal of the Missionary Church Historical Society 13-14 (2011-2012).

“‘This Rends in Pieces all the Boundaries between Virtue and Vice:’ Tennentists, Moravians, and the Antinomian Threat in the Delaware Valley” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography CXXXV:1 (January, 2011).

“From the Atlantic World to the Pennsylvania Back Country: Rediscovering the Enigmatic Moravians” Fides et Historia 41:2 (Summer/Fall 2009).

Panelist for local screenings of Ken Burns’ The American Revolution (Sponsored by Indiana Humanities, WVPE Public Radio, and WNIT PBS Michiana) Elkhart County Historical Society, April 30, 2026. North Webster Community Public Library, July 3, 2026.

Panelist for “The Contemporary Role of Religion in Politics, Parts 1 and 2,” Politically Speaking, WNIT TV PBS Michiana, November 30 and December 7, 2018.

Interviewed and quoted in Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, “Crisis Averted: Christian Colleges Avoid Split over Same-Sex Marriage in Christianity Today (October 26, 2015).

C-SPAN broadcast of “Religious Pacifists and the American Revolution” for Lectures in History series, May 2015

Scholar in Residence, Moravian Theological Seminary/Institute for Moravian History and World Heritage, Fall 2025. Included delivering the annual Walter Vivian Moses Lecture.

Alva J. McClain Award for Faculty Excellence, �������� and Theological Seminary, 2015.��

Snowden Fellowship, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, fall 2014.

Teaching Assistantship, University of Iowa, 2002 – 2007

Graduate Fellowship in Religious Studies, University of Iowa, 2001

Professor T.B. Madsen MA Thesis Award, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2000.

• “Before ‘true love waits’ there was Josh McDowell and Petra” Guest Post at The Anxious Bench, January 8, 2019.
• Panelist for “The Contemporary Role of Religion in Politics, Parts 1 and 2,” Politically Speaking, WNIT TV (Michiana PBS), November 30 and December 7, 2018.
• “To Celebrate or Not? Memory, Oppression and Luther’s Reformation,” Grace Connect��(October 2017).
• “Spreading Light in a Dark World: The world wars inspired many Christian relief efforts,” Christian History Magazine 121 (Spring 2017).
• Interviewed/quoted in Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, “Crisis Averted: Christian Colleges Avoid Split over Same-Sex Marriage in Christianity Today (October 26, 2015).
• C-SPAN broadcast of “Religious Pacifists and the American Revolution” for Lectures in History series, May 2015.

Blog posts referenced in:

• Kristin Kobes du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2020).
• Matthew Avery Sutton and Darren Dochuk, Faith in the New Millennium: The Future of Religion and American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016).

American Religious History, Colonial Religion (Mid-Atlantic), History of the Moravian Church, History of Evangelicalism, History of Anabaptism, History of Pietism

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