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Between 1880 and 1930, Protestant women in the United States and Canada developed the office of deaconess as a way to weave acts of Christian mercy into a consecrated lifestyle. In so doing, they worked both within and against American culture, especially on issues such as the ongoing constructions of gender and race.
Guest Lecture for Wesleyan HIST289/RELI263: God and Guns: A History of Faith and Firearms in America
On June 23, 2022, the United States Supreme Court, in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen rendered one of the most significant decisions ever to be issued on the Second Amendment. The impact of the Bruen decision is already being felt in major changes to gun regulations and increased legal challenges to existing gun…
Abstract: My presentation will address religion and armed self-defense in the United States through an examination of the historical emergence of religiously inflected gun cultures.
On Dec. 29, 2019, a man with a gun killed two people during a Sunday morning service at the West Freeway Church of Christ before…
Invited Lecture at the Fifth Conference of the International Löhe Society