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Deaconesses in the Founding Era: Working With and Against American Culture
Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:00 pm3:30 pm

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.  

God, Guns and Mommies
Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 10:00 am11:30 am

Guest Lecture for Wesleyan HIST289/RELI263: God and Guns: A History of Faith and Firearms in America

Pastoral Discourse following the Uvalde School Shooting
Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 9:00 am10:30 am
Originalism, the Supreme Court, Gun Laws and History
Fri, Jan 6, 2023, 10:30 am12:00 pm

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…

Location
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
Women's Concealed Carry of Firearms as Ritual Practice
Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 12:30 pm2:30 pm
Analyzing women’s concealed carrying of firearms as religious ritual reveals a world-making project that idealizes armed personal protection as a learned embodied religious practice. Whether or not they use religious language to describe it, these women promote gun carry as a spiritual practice, one that they see as aligned with evangelical…
Location
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
This House Protected by the Good Lord and a Gun: Remarks on the Recent History of Guns and Religion in the U.S.
Sat, Oct 15, 2022, 9:00 am5:00 pm

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…

Location
Center for the Study of Guns and Society, Wesleyan University
Serving on Bended Knee, Serving on Tiptoe: The History and Future of the Diaconal Movement in the United States
Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 7:30 pm9:00 pm
Location
Wartburg Theological Seminary
Sheepdog Masculinity: Carrying Concealed Handguns in Churches as a Hegemonic Performance of Manhood
Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 4:00 pm6:00 pm
Panelist in Session on "Toxic Masculinities and Religion" sponsored by the Men, Masculinities, and Religion Unit
Location
American Academy of Religion 2020 Annual Meeting
Serving on Bended Knee, Serving on Tiptoe: The History and Future of the Diaconal Movement in the United States
Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 7:30 pm9:00 pm

Invited Lecture at the Fifth Conference of the International Löhe Society

https://www.iloes.net/en/conference-2021/

Location
Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, IA
Sanctified Sisters
Sat, Oct 19, 2019, 10:00 am11:00 am
Location
Brooks Howell Home, 266 Merrimon Ave, Asheville, NC 28801