“Engaging the Real World for Christ,” Church and Culture Conference, Valley Covenant Church, Eugene, OR, Feb. 11-13, 2005

“A Snapshot of Civic Participation in a Small New England Town,” coauthored with Professor Elizabeth Ossoff ), a paper presented at the Conference on Civic Education in Reno, Nevada, September 29, 2004

“Engaging the Real World for Christ,” Soul University, Soulfest, 2004, Loon Mtn. Resort, NH, July 31, 2004

“Being a Christian in the Face of War,” Presented to College Life at North Park University, March 30, 2003

Resource Person on Civic Education at Regional Meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Lake Placid, New York, Oct. 25-26, 1999

Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America in the 21st Century, a paper presented at the International Conference on Political Science at the State University of Romania in Oradea. May 27, 1999

“It is the Mission of a Wise Person to Put things In Order,” Induction Address, Saint Anselm Chapter of Delta Epsilon Sigma, January 24, 1999

Delegate, “Peace is the Name of God,” 13th International Conference on World Peace, sponsored by the Community of Sant Egidio, Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 1998

Discussant, “A Confederation, Union, and Liberty,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Columbia Falls, MT, 3-9 August 1998

Discussant, “Montesquieu and Liberty,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Houston, TX, March 19-22, 1998

Discussant, “Freedom and the American Sermon,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Indianapolis, IN,
Oct. 23-26, 1997

Discussant, “Fundamental Documents of American Political Liberty,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Steamboat Springs, CO, July 9-13, 1997

Discussant, “Liberty and Piety in Ancient Athens,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Portsmouth, NH,
April 17-20, 1997

“The Puritans, the Congregationalists, and the American Founding,” A lecture given for the Thomas More College Fall Lecture Series, Sept. 27, 1996

“Standing on the Threshold of an Inconceivable Age: Massachusetts Congregationalist Thought at the end of the 18th Century,” A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 29-September 1, 1996

“An Enlightened Mind with a Reformed Conscience: Massachusetts Congregationalist Political Thought: 1760-1776,” a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, March 25, 1995

“Reinventing Paul: From the Geneva Bible to Locke’s Paraphrases on Romans,” a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 1-4, 1994

“Locke, Religion, and the American Founding,” a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2-5, 1993

“The Design of Heaven: Massachusetts Congregationalist Political Thought, 1760-1790,” Ph.D.
Dissertation, 1993, Georgetown University, Awarded distinction by dissertation committee