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Jon Pahl, Ph.D.
Peter Paul and Elizabeth Hagan Professor of History, 2012-
Professor of the History of Christianity in North America, 2005-2012
Associate Professor of American Religious History, 2000-05
Director of MA Programs, 2009-2015
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
7301 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19119-1794
1-610-909-7107 (Cell: Preferred)
1-215-248-6342 (Office)
1-610-627-5876 (Home)
jpahl@ltsp.edu
www.ltsp.edu
Adjunct Professor of Religion
Temple University, 2004-2014
Department of Religion
Anderson Hall
1114 W. Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090
Phone: (215)-204-7973
Visiting Professor of Religion, 2006-2008
Princeton University
Department of Religion
1879 Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-4482
Phone: 609-258-4482
Instructor-Associate Professor of Theology
Valparaiso University, 1988-2000
Valparaiso, IN 46383
Phone: (219)-464-5000
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Jon Pahl is an American religious historian, award-winning teacher, musician, and community activist.
“JP,” as he is known to his students, is committed to ethical and academic integrity, to the empowerment of
all people through critical and collaborative inquiry, and to participation in life-giving congregations,
agencies, and other sustainable enterprises. He served as architect and founding Director of the MAPL
(Master of Arts in Public Leadership) program at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia,
which prepares future leaders for spiritually-engaged social ministries. Dr. Pahl received his BA from
Valparaiso University, MTS from Trinity Lutheran Seminary, and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago
Divinity School, where he studied with noted Lutheran historian Martin E. Marty. Jon has authored
numerous articles and columns in academic and popular publications, and his books include Paradox Lost:
Free Will and Political Liberty in American Culture, 1630-1760 (Johns Hopkins University Press);
Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place, and, most recently, Empire of
Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence (NYU Press). Jon has enjoyed speaking with
audiences from Ankara, Turkey to Anaheim, California, including at Cambridge and Oxford Universities in
England, at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and other colleges and universities in the U.S., and at
venues in Australia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Uganda, and across Europe. He has been
interviewed on ABC, the BBC and other media outlets, and appeared with his son, Justin, in the
documentary film Malls R Us, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Dr. Pahl
is currently working on a book with the title A Coming Religious Peace, and another project entitled
Fethullah Gülen as Peacebuilder: A Life of Hizmet. Jon lives with his wife, Lisa, in Philadelphia’s Mt.
Airy neighborhood, where he enjoys spending time with his extended family, sports, gardening, and sitting
in on the saxophone with jazz, gospel, and rhythm and blues bands. He has played with some of
Philadelphia’s finest jazz musicians.
CURRENT RESEARCH
A Coming Religious Peace
Contrary to the stereotype that attributes only violence to religion, this work lifts up historically-significant
examples of religious peacebuilding in American history. From the anti-slavery activism of Francis Daniel
Pastorius in the 17th
century to the abolitionism of Angelina and Sarah Grimke in the 19th
century, down to
the feminism of early 20th
century filmmaker Lois Weber and civil rights activism of Diane Nash, A
Coming Religious Peace weaves an unexpected and surprising legacy of effective peacebuilding by
religious agents in American history. Building on the work of theorists with global reach such as Elise
Boulding, David Cortright, Leymah Gbowee, John Paul Lederach, and Steven Pinker, Jon Pahl shows how
religious leaders have mobilized potent discourses, practices, communities and institutions to promote a
pragmatic pacifism with deep roots across traditions. This emerging interfaith consensus poses a strong
counter to the so-called "realism" of state-sponsored and market-induced violence, and is likely to prove the
only long-term alternative to the apocalyptically-minded violence of terrorists.
Fethullah Gülen as Peacebuilder: A Life of Hizmet
The Turkish imam M. Fethullah Gülen once wrote that “power depends on truth.” This simple maxim
invokes Gandhi’s notion of satyagraha, or truth-force, and helps explain how Gülen has inspired a global
movement of Muslims dedicated to inter-religious dialogue, scientific education, and direct service—hizmet
in Turkish. How did this modest, soft-spoken, simple-living man from a small village in Northeastern
Turkey come to inspire a global movement on behalf of peace? In the first English-language biography of
Mr. Gülen, Jon Pahl explores the childhood, early career, and rise to influence of this controversial yet
important figure in the history of religions.
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BOOKS PUBLISHED/PROJECTS COMPLETED
Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence (NYU Press, 2010).
Building on and critiquing leading theories of violence and religion from Rene Girard to Regina Schwartz,
this book explores, around constructions of age, race, gender, and the nation, selected episodes of violence
and their religious features in American history.
Malls 'R' Us
Featured role in theatrical-release documentary film on the global spread of shopping malls, produced by
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and directed by Helene Klodawsky. Involvement grew out of
Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces (see below). Opened March 21, 2009.
An American Teacher: Coming of Age and Coming Out, The Memoirs of Loretta Coller
(Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2009). Traces the life, loves, and eventual murder of Loretta
Coller (1931-1994), including her working-class Catholic upbringing in Wisconsin, expulsion from the Air
Force during the McCarthy era for “homosexuality,” and career as a high school educator in Southern
California. Edited with an Introduction and Epilogue.
Who Are the Lutherans? Or, Why Did We Start So Many Social Ministry Organizations?
(Bethlehem, PA: Christmas Press, 2009). Orientation book and DVD Introduction to Lutherans and
global Lutheranism, focused on the history of Lutheran social ministries as institutional expressions of
Lutheran public leadership and advocacy for justice and peace.
Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place
(Portland, OR: Wipf and Stock 2009 [2003]). Part One develops a cultural critique of shopping malls,
Walt Disney World, and the suburban home (domestic sanitation and lawncare) as vestigial sacred places
that point to a “violence of banality.” Part Two weaves a “theology of place” centered around biblical
metaphors like “living waters,” “the true vine,” “one Body,” and “cities of God.”
Youth Ministry in Modern America: 1930-the present.
(Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2000). Traces the rise and significance of four streams of
Christian work with young people--Lutheran, Catholic, Evangelical, and African American, and especially
their vulnerability to violence, in the late twentieth-century.
Hopes and Dreams of All: The International Walther League, and Lutheran Youth in
American Culture, 1893-1993 (Wipf and Stock, 2006 [Chicago: Wheat Ridge, 1993]). This social
history follows the emergence of a German-American youth movement in the late nineteenth-century to its
demise in the cultural conflicts of the 1960s and 70s. Based on archival research, and called by one
reviewer a "model history of an organization in its cultural setting."
Paradox Lost: Free Will and Political Liberty in American Culture, 1630-1760
New Studies in Intellectual History. (Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).
Connects the intellectual debates over free will and predestination in American theology to the formation of
political ideologies and violence in early America.
SELECTED COURSES OFFERED
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(Undergraduate and Graduate) All teaching is competency-based and multiple access, including distributed
learning/intensive/hybrid and traditional face-to-face dialogical pedagogy, following the tenets of Paolo
Freire and bell hooks
Introduction to Public Theology (Annually—LTSP) A foundational course for all LTSP students,
“IPT” engages a diverse student community (by age, race, and gender-identification) in collaborative
learning to gain competencies across disciplines (Scriptural Reasoning, Historical Inquiry, Theology,
Integrative Practice). Students work together in ministerial formation and discernment, toward theological
and moral integrity, and on behalf of global, ecumenical and interfaith engagement for justice and peace.
Religious History and Public Leadership (Every other year, LTSP): Foundational course in MAPL
program, exploring how selected religious leaders (Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) have
engaged their traditions and communities in public action, and applying skills gained through a practical,
collaborative project (2015 leaders=Oprah, Gandhi, Hanh, Sacks, Gbowee, Gülen).
Film and Religions; Topic for 2016—“Do Black Lives Matter in the Media?” (Annually—
LTSP) Tracing a discrete topic each year (coming-of-age, violence, Jesus, sacrifice, peacebuilding, etc),
this course engages the methods of an American cultural historian and historian of religions toward
understanding selected films (and other media) in their contexts. Students gain skills at interpretation and
analysis of media, and at articulating media literacy among communities, congregations, or agencies.
Religions and Violence (Valparaiso, Princeton (2007), Temple (2009), LTSP--every other year) Have
“terrorists” been the only violent believers? This course explores patterns of discourse, practice, and the
production of power in discrete cases of violence and conflict, primarily in American history but with an
eye on global trends. Students apply their learning through engagement with a local community,
congregation. or agency on a particular project that seeks to prevent, mitigate, or reconcile conflict.
Religions and Peacebuilding (Princeton (2008), LTSP—every other year) How have participants in
historic religious traditions contributed to more just, peaceful societies? Theories of peace-building are
tested in relationship to specific historical contexts and cases, and students are invited to practice
peacebuilding through engagement with a particular project in relationship to a community, congregation,
or agency.
Religions in North America (Annually, Valparaiso and LTSP) This course explores the diverse
ecologies and histories of religions in North America, with a focus on local contexts, through study of
primary texts, historical figures and movements, web-pages of various groups, and guest speakers and
visits. Traditions studied include selected communities of Native Americans, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews,
Muslims, and Christians in the U.S.. Competencies gained include familiarity with the discourses,
practices, and social structures of significant groups of religious believers in the U.S., and experience in
relationship-building across traditions.
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CIVIC ENGAGEMENT/SERVICE/ADMINISTRATION
Philadelphia
PhD Director
Jewel Herder: “The Violence of Silence: The Pedophilia Scandal in the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia”
Marva Rice: “Betwixt and Between: Liminality and the Women of the Civil
Rights Movement, 1935-the Present”
Director of MA Programs, LTSP, July 2009--2015
Initiated, designed, and secured Commonwealth Approval and Accreditation for
new MA program in public leadership; oversaw curriculum development,
Articulation Agreements, recruitment, field work, and evaluation of program
efficacy. Handed fiscally healthy and growing program to new Administrator,
July, 2015. Generated $1.2 million in revenue for LTSP, 2009-2015.
Feast of Justice, Board of Directors, 2013- ; Chair, 2014-
Hunger Ministry, NE Philadelphia; $4 million/annual budget
Program Unit Co-Chair, American Academy of Religion--Religions, Social
Conflict, and Peace Group, 2005-2012
Organized scholarly meetings and encouraged emerging scholars
Founding Editor/Book Reviews: The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
Wrote Business Plan, secured publisher—The Johns Hopkins University Press
Editor, Online Scholarly List-serve, H-Peace, January 2007-2011
Lutheran Settlement House, Board of Directors. Fall, 2005- 2011
Graduate Studies Committee, LTSP, Fall, 2005-
Helped develop and initiate PhD program with focus on “public theology”
Reader/Reviewer for NYU Press; Journal of Religion; Cross-Currents; and many others
Library Committee, LTSP, Fall 2002-
Board of Directors, The Lutheran Archives Center, Philadelphia, PA, Fall 2001-
Multicultural Audit Follow-up Committee, Spring 2002. Drafted recommendations
regarding gender equity and ethnicity.
Public Theology Study Committee, Spring 2002-2004. Examining role of “public
theology” in curriculum, research, and pedagogy.
LTSP START (Accreditation): Student Service Committee, Fall 2000-Spring 2002
ELCA New York Metropolitan Synod Candidacy Committee, Fall 2001-2005
Valparaiso, Indiana
Board of Directors, Habitat for Humanity of Valparaiso, Fall 1995-Spring 2000.
Founder and Faculty Advisor, Habitat for Humanity, Valparaiso University
Campus Chapter, Fall 1995-Spring 2000 Built three houses in four years,
Administered “service-learning” program associated with organization
Youth Minister, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Valparaiso, Fall 1997-
Spring 1999. Administered budget and program.
Interim Pastor (Deacon), St. Mark Lutheran Church, Medaryville, IN, 1995-1997
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HONORS AND GRANTS
2015: Soli Course Development Grant
To create/offer course on “Faith, History, and Finance: The Spirituality of
Business and the Business of Spirituality”—January, 2016 (intensive)
2014: The Wabash Center
Summer Faculty Institute on Distributed (Online) Learning: Best Practices
2012: The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
1 semester sabbatical to continue work on “A Coming Religious Peace,” and to
begin “Fethullah Gülen as Peacebuilder: A Life of Hizmet”
2009: The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
1 semester sabbatical to begin work on "A Coming Religious Peace;" continued
administrative work on MAPL during sabbatical
2008: Thrivent Grant ($300K)
To institute MAPL program; first graduates of pilot class, 2010.
2006: Affiliated Fellow, Princeton University, Center for the Study of Religion
--coincided with Fall Semester sabbatical from LTSP, to complete work on
“Empire of Sacrifice" and other projects
2003: Coolidge Fellow, Association for Religion and Intellectual Life
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Sabbatical 1/03-6/03 to begin writing “Empire of Sacrifice"
2001: Association of Theological Schools, “Small Grant”
Led to completion of “Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces”
1999-2000: Lilly Consultation on Childhood and Religion in America
One of twelve scholars nationally.
1998-1999 Valparaiso Project on Faith
Stipend to complete Youth Ministry in Modern America
1997 Louisville Institute Research Grant
To begin research on “Youth Ministry in Modern America"
1996 AAL/Habitat for Humanity Challenge Grant
Funds to build 3 houses in 4 years; written by and administered with students.
1995-1996 Indiana Campus Compact Faculty Fellow Award
One of six scholars in the State honored for integrating service into teaching
Hellenic Laurel Award for Teaching Excellence
1994-1995 Valparaiso University Summer Research Grant
Resulted in “A National Shrine to Scapegoating?”
1992-1993 Wheat Ridge/Walther League Commission
Resulted in Hopes and Dreams of All
1993 Teaching Scholar-in-Residence, The Luther Institute, Washington, DC
1991-1992 Hellenic Laurel Award for Teaching Excellence
1987-1988 Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship
Resulted in Paradox Lost
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ARTICLES, LECTURES, COLUMNS, PAPER PRESENTATIONS, REVIEWS, etc.
2016
Invited Lecture, “Engaged Empathy: The Role of Religions,” Countering Violent Extremism,
Brussels, Belgium, March 18, 2016
Workshop Presentation (with Kristen Opalinski), “The Peacebuilding Garden,” Respect
Graduate School, Bethlehem, PA, February 27, 2016
Invited Lecture, “Why History Isn’t Boring,” LTSP Prospective Students Day, February 6,
2016
Sermon, “The Lord, Our Shepherd: A Homily for Black History Month,” LTSP, February 4,
2016
Sermon, “Wade in the Waters,” Faith Lutheran Church, Appleton, WI, January 10, 2016
Invited Lecture, “Peacebuilding Beyond Empire and ISIS: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Can Work Together,” Islamic Society of the Fox River Valley, Neenah, WI, January 9,
2016
2015
“After Paris: How Religions Promote Peace,” The Hibben Lecture, Penn Charter High School,
Philadelphia, PA, November 30, 2015
Invited Lecture Series, “American Christian Women: Leading the Way for Three Centuries,”
4 Week Series, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, November 29-December 20, 2015
Invited Lecture, “The Forgotten Lutherans: An Economic Reading of Martin Luther’s
Catechisms,
in Long Context,” The Forgotten Luther: Advocate for the Poor, Conference at Lutheran
Church of the Reformation, Washington, DC, November 6, 2015
Invited Lecture, “Economic Inequality and Christian Ethics,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church,
October 25, 2015
Sermon, “Hypocrites” (Matthew 15:1-9), LTSP Chapel, October 7, 2015
Sermon, “One Grace, Many Sisters and Brothers,” St. Paul Lutheran Church, Beachwood, NJ,
October 4, 2015
Speaker, “Men Can (Prevent Family Violence),” Lutheran Settlement House, Love Park,
Philadelphia, October 1, 2015
Research in Turkey: Istanbul, Izmir, Erzurum, Edirne—July 20-August 14, 2015
Invited Keynote, “Fostering Freedom,” Interfaith Iftar Dinner, Philadelphia City Hall, July 3,
2015
Public Workshop, with Abeer Shaheen, “Rawabi: Peacebuilding through Social Enterprise,”
LTSP/Peace Islands Institute/J-Street, May 15, 2015
“Sunrise in Jenin,” The Fountain Magazine, May-June, 2015, online at:
http://blog.fountainmagazine.com/index/detail/sunrise-in-jenin-blog
Invited Lecture, “Beyond ‘Abrahamic Monotheism’ and ‘Dialogue’: Potential New Roles
for Religion in Transforming Conflict in Palestine,” Arab-American University, Jenin, May
6, 2015
Invited Keynote Lecture, “Reducing Poverty through Education: The Hizmet Movement and
A Coming Religious Peace,” First Annual Interfaith Peacebuilding Conference, Accra,
Ghana, April 30, 2015
Invited Keynote Lecture, “Peacebuilding through Education,” Interfaith Dialogue Dinner,
Queens,
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NY, April 23, 2015
“Empire of Sacrifice,” Skype Class Session, Stanford University, Kathryn Gin Lum, April 21,
2015
Invited Lecture, “A Coming Religious Peace,” Villanova University, Peace Islands Institute
Academic Forum: Philadelphia 2020, March 26, 2015
Dialogue Sermon, with Dr. Glen Willis of Won Buddhist Temple, “Birthing, Laughter,
Impermanence: Genesis 20-21,” LTSP Chapel, March 1, 2015
Study Series, “In Vino Veritas: The History, Theology, and Spirituality of Wine,” 5 weeks at
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, and other venues in Philadelphia
Invited Lecture, “How America is Truly Exceptional: Innocent Domination from the Pequots to
Shopping Malls to Ferguson,” Yale Divinity School, February 23, 2015.
Invited Lecture, “Moving Forward in Faith, by Going Backwards in History,” The Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Prospective Student Day, February 7, 2015.
Invited Lecture, “Research Methods in Public Theology,” The Lutheran Theological Seminary
At Philadelphia, PhD Seminar, February 5, 2015.
Invited Participant, “Interfaith Peacebuilding: Best Practices,” Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College, Philadelphia, January 11-2, 2015. One of 25 scholars nationally.
Invited Lecture, “Selma, Ava DuVernay, and ‘the Voice of God,’” Black Community Leaders
Film Viewing and Discussion, January 10, 2015.
2014
Teach-in (Convener, Organizer, Speaker), “Black Lives Matter: Moving from Fear to Flourishing
After Ferguson,” Interfaith Panel Presentations, December 16, 2014
Invited Lecture, “Religions, Violence, and Peacebuilding,” St. Thomas Episcopal Church,
Whitemarsh, PA, December 7, 2014.
With James Wellman, Jr, “Empire of Sacrifice, USA: Violence and the
Sacred in America,” in Surviving our Origins: Rene Girard and Evolution, ed.
Paul Gifford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014):
Invited Lecture, “Facing Finances, or “Marketing” and “Management” are not Four-Letter
Words,” Southeast PA Lutheran Ministerial Association, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church,
Lafayette Hill, PA, September 16, 2014.
Invited Lecture, “Our Daily Bread: Economics, Religion, and Daily Life,” Five Week Series,
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, September 14-October 12, 2014.
Sermon, “Where God Meets Us,” (Matthew 18:20), Reformation Lutheran Church, Philadelphia,
PA, September 7, 2014
“Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities: A Coming Religious Peace,” in
Rene Girard and Creative Reconciliation, ed. Vern Redekop and Thomas Ryba
(Lexington Books, 2014): 117-134.
Invited Lecture, “Pluralism and Religious Peacebuilding,” Gordon College Philadelphia Tour,
June 23, 2014.
Sermon, “Stories of Glory,” (Luke 24:25-26), Reformation Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA,
May 5, 2014.
Invited Lecture, “Religion that Kills, Religion that Saves—and How to Know the Difference,
Or, A Coming Religious Peace,” The Longo Lecture, Pacific Union College, Angwin,
CA, February 27, 2014.
“The Irony of the American Studies Association Boycott,” Religion Dispatches, January 2,
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2014, online at
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/7464/the_irony_of_the_american_studi
es_israel_boycott/
2013
Book Review: “Clarity about Crusaders: Historical, Constructive, and Ethical
Reflections on Religion and Violence in America,” a Review of From Jeremiad to Jihad:
Religion, Violence, & America, ed. John D. Carlson and Jonathan H. Ebel. Foreword by
Martin Marty (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2012), in Politics and
Religion 6(September 2013): 683-686.
Book Review: Muslims and Others in Sacred Space, ed. Margaret Cormack (NY/
London: Oxford University Press), in Contemporary Islam (November 2013), online at:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11562-013-0284-5#page-1
Book Review: “One Way to (Another) Empire,” a Review of Elizabeth A. Clark,
Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-
Century America (Philadelphia and Oxford: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011),
in Augustinian Studies 44(1): 167-170 (2013).
“America’s King of Kings: The King James Bible and American Civil Religion,” in The King
James Version at 400, ed. David G. Burke, et al (Atlanta: SBL, 2013): 413-444
Invited Lecture Series, “Nonviolent Philly: Six Case Studies,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian
Church, December 1, 2013-January 19, 2014
Invited Lecture, “Hizmet from the Heart,” The Peace Islands Institute, “Friendship Dinners” at
Portland, Maine; Boston, MA; Burlington, VT, published online at:
http://ltsp.edu/hizmet-heart
Invited Lecture, “Discovering Hizmet,” Peace Islands Institute, Manchester, NH, October 15
Invited Lecture, “Religious Peacebuilding,” International Visitors Council of Philadelphia,
Belarus Delegation, July 22
Invited Lecture, “From an Empire of Sacrifice to A Coming Religious Peace,” Stanford
University Department of Religion, April 28
Invited Lecture, “A Coming Religious Peace,” Tiburon Presbyterian Church, Tiburon, CA,
April 26
Invited Lecture, “Economic Crises and the Promise of Spiritually-Grounded Social Enterprise:
Building Peace through Sustainable Profits, Consistent with the Prophets,” Beder
University, Tirana, Albania, April 18, 2013
“Ellington Easter Vespers: A Service of Interfaith Readings and Prayers,” LTSP Chapel, April
20
“Apocalypse and Sacrifice in Modern Film: American Exceptionalism
And a Scandinavian Alternative,” in Sacrifice in Modern Thought, ed.
Johannes Zachhuber and Julia Mezaros (Oxford University Press): 214-230.
With TL Hill, “Social Entrepreneurship as Practical Social Justice,” in A Just World:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Social Justice, ed. Heon Kim (Newcastle:
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013): 39-52.
Invited Lecture: “The Potential of Spiritually-Engaged Social Enterprise,” St. Luke’s Lutheran
Church, Cornell University Campus Ministry, Ithaca, NY, April 29
Sermon: “Consider the Dandelions,”(John 13:1-35), St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Cornell
University Campus Ministry, April 29
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Invited Lecture: “A Coming Religious Peace,” St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Cornell University
Campus Ministry, April 28
“The Meaning of the Hizmet Movement,” Peace Islands Institute Friendship and Dialogue
Dinner, Rochester, NY, April 26
Sermon: “Always There,” Installation of Allison Wilcox as Associate in Ministry, April 13
Keynote Lecture: “Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities: A Coming Religious Peace,”
“A Just Peace: Perspective from the World’s Religions,” St. Joseph’s University, March
22, 2013
Sermon: “The False Riches of Resentment,” Reformation Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA,
March 17
Sermon: “Lent: Our Annual Vision Quest”(Luke 4:1-13), Grace Lutheran Church, Royersford,
PA, Feb 20
Invited Lecture Series: “A Coming Religious Peace,” Grace Lutheran Church, Royersford, PA,
Feb 20-March 20
2012
“Sacred Space and a Coming Religious Peace in the Thought of Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet
Movement,” in Making Peace in and With the World: The Gülen Movement and Eco-
Justice, ed. Heon Kim and John Raines (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012):
73-84.
Invited Lecture: “The Art of Living Together: Peacebuilding as Our Common
Calling,” Penn State University, November 28, 2012.
Invited Lecture, “Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities: Toward a Coming
Religious Peace,” International Conference on Hizmet Movement and the Thought of
Fethullah Gülen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 8, 2012.
“Ending the Warfare between Religion and Business: Social Enterprise
and A New Social Gospel Movement,” Inaugural Lecture as Peter Paul and Elizabeth
Hagan Chair in the History of Christianity, November 27, 2012, online at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ygx6J-L3zc
“Beyond Discontent over Civilization: Countering, Compromising with, and Transforming
Empire through Religious Persistence, Policy, Projections of Transcendent Authority, and
Prayer,” Respondent to Session on “Empire in American Religious History,”
The American Academy of Religion, National Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 19,
2012.
Book Review, “Machiavellian Missouri Synod Minions in a Modern Morality Tale: The
Changing Face of Conservatism in America,” online in Religion in American History,
August 5, 2012, at
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2012/08/machiavellian-missouri-synod-minions-in.html
“Roads Not Traveled: 4 Peacemakers in American History,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church,
September 16-October 10, 2012.
Invited Lecture, “A Coming Religious Peace?” Congregation Beth Hatikvah, Summit, NJ,
May, 11, 2012
Invited Lectures, “Shopping Malls and Living Waters” and the “Walt Disney World and the
Light of the World,” Swarthmore Presbyterian Church, April 29, May 6, 2012.
“Match-Maker, Match-Maker, Grant-Me-A-Grant,” [Workshop, with J Eskate and K Vought],
LTSP, April 29, 2012.
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Sermon: “Proverbs for a Seminary Community,” LTSP, April 16, 2012.
Invited Lecture, with T.L. Hill, “Social Entrepreneurship as a Catalyst for Practical Social
Justice:The Case of the Hizmet (Service) Movement,” Holy Family University,
Philadelphia, PA, March 30, 2012.
Invited Lecture, “Cinema Saviors and Pseudo-Christs,” St. Thomas Episcopal Church,
Whitemarsh, PA, April 15, 2012.
Invited Lecture, “Apocalypse and Sacrifice in Modern Film: American Exceptionalism and a
Scandinavian Alternative,” Trinity College, Oxford University, March 10, 2012.
Keynote Lecture, “Sacred Space and Alleviating Poverty in the Hizmet Movement,” Hartford,
CT, March 8, 2012.
“A Coming Religious Peace,” Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA, February 19, 2012.
“When and Why Religions Do Harm,” Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA, February
12, 2012.
Invited Lecture: “Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities: Toward a Coming Religious
Peace,” Seton Hall University, February 3, 2012.
“Ellington Epiphany Vespers,” Resurrection Lutheran Church, Yardley, PA, January 14, 2012,
and The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, February 18, 2012.
Invited Lecture Series: “Our Stories, Muslim Stories, God’s Story,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian
Church, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, January 15, 2011-February 5, 2012
2011
Invited Lecture: “A Coming Religious Peace,” Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, Emmaus, PA,
December 11, 2011.
Invited Lecture: “When and Why Religions Do Harm,” Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, Emmaus,
PA, December 4, 2011.
“America’s ‘King of Kings’: The King James Version of the Bible and the American Civil
Religion,” New Jersey Council of Churches Meeting, New Brunswick, NJ, 10/19/11, and
American Academy of Religion, National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11/19/20.
“What is ‘Sacred Space?’, 4 week lecture series, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, King of
Prussia, PA, 10/9-10/30, 2011
“Living the Questions,” An Introduction to Martin E. Marty, The Lutheran Theological Seminary
at Philadelphia, September 6, 2011
“The Nature of Hizmet,” Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA, August 28, 2011
“The Fountain: Metaphor and Magazine,” The Fountain Magazine, July/August 2011, at
http://www.fountainmagazine.com/Issue/detail/The-Fountain-Metaphor-and-Magazine
“The Güzel but Zor Turkish Language,” in Occasional Religion, July 11, 2011, at
http://www.occasionalreligion.com/2011_07_01_archive.html
Keynote Lecture, “Malls, Muhlenberg, and Mission,” Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod
Assembly, ELCA, Allentown, PA, June 17, 2011.
Video Interview/Lecture, “Beyond Sacrifice: Rethinking Religion and Violence in America, or
How a Pax Americana Might Figure in a Coming Religious Peace,” Rumi Forum
Luncheon, Rumi Forum, Washington, DC, 30 May 2011, at
http://www.rumiforum.org/luncheons/beyond-sacrifice-rethinking-religion-and-violence-
in-america-or-how-a-pax-americana-might-figure-in-a-coming-religious-peace.html
“Extending Sacred Space: Beyond Pledge, Plate and Philanthropy,” Keynote Lecture,
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St. Paul Lutheran Church Visiting Theologian, Glenside, PA, June 13, 2011.
Invited Lecture: “In Guns We Trust,” Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. Conference,
Overcoming our Origins: Rene Girard, Evolution, and Religion, May 28, 2011.
“The Rapture Gig,” Jazz Vespers and Dinner, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Glenside, PA, May 21,
2011.
“Consider the Dandelions,” Sermon, Divinity Lutheran Church, Parma Heights, OH, May 1,
2011.
“Sex and Salvation: A Workshop,” Divinity Lutheran Church, Parma Heights, OH, April 29-30,
2011.
“Extending Sacred Space: Beyond Pledge, Plate and Philanthropy to Social Businesses,” SEPA
Diakonia Workshop, Paoli, PA, April 16, 2011.
Radio Interview: “Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence,” ABC
Sunday Nights with John Cleary, April 12, 2011, at
http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s3194641.htm
“Can Media Be Moral?” Unisel: Universitas Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 4, 2011.
“Malaysia’s Minarets or Designs on Dominion (in Kuala Lumpur),” April 9, 2011, at
http://ltsp.edu/malaysias-minarets-or-designs-dominion
“Surprised by Heaven in Sydney,” April 6, 2011, at http://ltsp.edu/surprised-heaven-sydney
“Melbourne’s Mojo,” April 5, 2011, at http://ltsp.edu/melbournes-mojo
“Media and Values,” Sydney Meyer Asia Center, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia,
April 2, 2011.
“Joy in Jakarta,” April 2, 2011, at http://ltsp.edu/joy-jakarta
“Sacred Space in the Gülen Movement,” Jakarta Negeri University, Jakarta, Indonesia, March
31, 2011.
“Singapore, Sweat, and Shopping Malls,” March 31, 2011, at
http://ltsp.edu/singapore-sweat-and-shopping-malls
“Can Media Be Moral? Religion, Violence and Values in Contemporary Media,” Singapore
Management University, Singapore, March 29, 2011
“From Tomb to Mountaintop to Mosque,” March 28, 2011 at
http://ltsp.edu/tomb-mountaintop-mosque
“Islam and Democracy,” March 26, 2011 at http://ltsp.edu/islam-and-democracy
Invited Lecture: “Sacred Space in the Gülen Movement,” Tirana University, Tirana, Albania,
March 25, 2011.
Invited Lecture Series, “Jesus at/in the Movies,” St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lower Merion,
PA, 3/16-30, 2011.
“A Gnostic Temptation in Orthodox/Catholic/Evangelical American Guise: Jesus in The Last
Temptation of the Christ, The Media Theater, Media, PA, March 12, 2011.
Invited Lecture Series, “Death Denial, Memorials and Memoirs in America,” Bryn Mawr
Presbyterian Church, February 6-20, 2011.
Invited Lecture Series, “Sacred Places in America,” St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Chester
Springs, PA, January 19-Feb 2, 2011.
Invited Lecture, “From Mecca to the Mall of America, with a Stop at the ‘Ground Zero Mosque:
Sacred Space in the United States,” Moravian Academy, January 13, 2011.
Invited Lecture, “American Sacred Space: Malls, Memorials, and a Mosque?” University
Lutheran Church, Cambridge, MA, January 9, 2011.
Respondent, “Alternatives to What? Panel on “New Religious Movements,” American
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Historical Association, Boston, MA, January 6, 2011
“War, Peace, and Violence in American Christianity,” in Christianities in
America, ed. Catherine A. Brekus (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2010).
2010
"Sacred Space in the Hizmet Movement and the Thought of M. Fethullah Gülen," at
The University of Chicago Divinity School, Conference on The Gülen Movement,
November 12, 2010.
“Nature as Sacred Space in the Hizmet Movement and the Thought of M. Fethullah Gülen,” at
Temple University, Conference on Hizmet Movement and Eco-Justice, November 8.
Special Session, Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence, The
Colloquium on Violence and Religion, American Academy of Religion Annual
Meeting, October 30, 2010.
Invited Lectures, “Film, Religion, and Peacebuilding,” 4 Week Series, October 24-November 21,
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.
Invited Lectures, "Possessed by Our Possessions" and "The Economics of Jesus," St. Martin-of-
the-Fields Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA, October 10 and 17, 2010.
Invited Lectures, "Sacred Space? Shopping Malls, Disney World, and the Green Grass of
Home," 3-Week Series, Grace Lutheran Church, Royersford, PA, September 19-
October 3, 2010.
Sermon, "Finding True Freedom that Can't Be Bought," Grace Lutheran Church, Royersford,
PA, September 19, 2010.
"The Art of Living Together," Iftar Dinner Keynote Speech, Lancaster, PA, Red Rose
Foundation, September 4, 2010.
Invited Lecture, "Pluralism in American Religious History," Philadelphia Visitors Forum,
Official State Department Visit from Republic of Tatarstan, Philadelphia, PA, June 16,
2010.
"Blessed Brutalities: The Religious Origins of American Violence," 5 Part DVD
Series for Congregational Study. Produced by preachingpeace.org, 2010.
"Religion and Violence in American History," televised interview regarding Empire of Sacrifice
on Global Faith and Freedom (Hope Channel, TV). Silver Spring, MD, May 24, 2010.
"The Core of Lutheran CORE," commentary in "Religion in American History," May 16, 2010,
online at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2010/05/core-of-lutheran-core.html
"The Core of Lutheran CORE: American Civil Religion and White Male Backlash," in
Journal of Lutheran Ethics, May 2010. Online at:
http://www.elca.org/What-We-Believe/Social-Issues/Journal-of-Lutheran-
Ethics/Issues/May-2010/The-Core-of-Lutheran-CORE-American-Civil-Religion-and-
White-Male-Backlash.aspx. Reprinted in dozens of news outlets/blogs.
"Fragments of Empire: Lessons for Americans in Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence,"
in Public Theology, May 10, 2010. Online at
http://www.pubtheo.com/page.asp?pid=1548
"The Paradox of Religion and Violence, and Why Religions are Not Shit: An Interview with
Jon Pahl," in "Religion in American History," May 5, 2010, online at
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2010/05/core-of-lutheran-core.html
William Lazareth Lecture, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI: "Four American Crises, Two Tea
Parties: The Legacies of William Allen (1701-1780), William Lazareth (1928-2008), and
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The Future of Lutheran Higher Education," April 14, 2010. Online at:
http://www.carthage.edu/lazarethlectures/jon-pahl/
"Malls R Us," (Film Viewing and Discussion), Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Bryn Mawr,
PA, March 18, 2010.
"Faith and Religion," in A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family, Vol. 6. Ed. Joseph
M. Hawes and N. Ray Hiner (NY/Oxford: Berg, 2010): 161-178.
Invited Lecture, "What is Sacred Space? And Why Our Answer Matters," St. John's Lutheran
Church, Phoenixville, PA, March 6, 2010.
Theologian in Residence, "Sex and Salvation," St. Stephen Lutheran Church, Williamsburg,
VA, February 12-13, 2010
Invited Retreat Leader, "Sacred Spaces," Camp Calumet, Lake Osippee, NH, January 27-28,
2010
Invited Lecture, "Two Metaphors and Four Trends from Religious History, for Public
Leadership," Lutheran World Relief Board of Directors Meeting, Baltimore,
Md, January 26, 2010.
Invited Lecture, "Does Peace Stand a Chance? The Hizmet Movement and Religious
Peacebuilding," Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, TX, January 23, 2010
Invited Lecture, "'The Violence Iceberg' and 'A Coming Religious Peace,'" Dialog of
Civilizations 2010, Gülen Institute/The University of Houston, January 22, 2010
Invited Lecture Series, "Sex and Salvation," Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, January 10 -
February 7, 2010.
"Homicide and American Religions," in Religion, Death and Dying: An Anthology, Vol. 2,
Special Issues, ed. Lucy Bregman (Praeger, 2010): 135-159.
2009
Guest Preacher, "The Refiner's Fire," Messiah Lutheran Church, Parlin, NJ, December 6, 2009
"A Muted Call for Sacrifice. A Clear Call for Responsibility," Religion in American History,
December 5, 2009, at
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/12/muted-call-for-sacrifice.html
"Where was God in the Gay Holocaust?" panel presentation with Exhibit from U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, William Way Community Center, Philadelphia, PA, November 16,
2009.
Invited Keynote Speaker, ""Transforming Global Education: The Gülen Movement and a
Coming Religious Peace," University of Kentucky Dialogue Dinner, Lexington, KY,
November 9, 2009.
Invited Lecture, "A Coming Religious Peace," St. John's Lutheran Church, Summit, NJ,
November 15, 2009
Discussant, Film Viewing, "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," [Liberian women as peacebuilders],
American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Montreal, CA, November 8, 2009
Presider, "Religions and Peacemaking: Case Studies," American Academy of Religion, Annual
Meeting, Montreal, CA, November 7, 2009
Presider, Discussant--Film Viewing, "Malls R Us," American Academy of Religion, Annual
Meeting, Montreal, CA, November 6, 2009
Invited Lecture, " Of Autumn Leaves: Or, Reverence for Life with an Attitude of Gratitude:
Prospects for Public Theology in a New Era of Responsibility," LTSP Quodlibet Lecture,
Philadelphia, PA, November 3, 2009
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Guest Preacher, "Reformation Sunday: Of Autumn Leaves"(Revelation 22), Friedens
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Oley, PA, October 25, 2009
"In Guns We Trust," Religion in American History, October 11, 2009, at
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-guns-we-trust.html
Invited Keynote Speaker, ""Transforming Global Education: The Gülen Movement and a
Coming Religious Peace," Drew University Friendship Dinner, Drew University,
Madison, NJ, October 8, 2009.
Invited Lecture, "Malls R Us," or Why Shopping Malls are Sites of Religious Violence,"
Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics, October 5, 2009
Invited Lecture Series, "Sacrifice and Cinema," Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church,
September 20-October 11, 2009.
Invited Lecture, "Transforming Global Education: The Gülen Movement and a Coming
Religious Peace," Philadelphia Dialogue Forum Iftar Dinner, Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA, September 17, 2009.
"Finding Flow [Mark 8:27-38]," Distinguished Preacher Series, Emmanuel Episcopal Church,
Baltimore, MD, September 13, 2009
Workshop Presenter, "Who are the Lutherans?" Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries, Annual
Meeting, Grantville, PA, July 14, 2009.
Respondent, "Youth, Religion, and American History," Panel Discussion, The Society for the
History of Childhood and Youth, National Meeting, The University of California,
Berkeley, July 12, 2009.
Keynote Speaker, "The Challenge for Youth," International Dialogue Dinner, Kampala, Uganda,
June 21, 2009.
"Sacrifice," in The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film, ed. John Lyden (London and
NY: Routledge, 2009): 465-481..
Workshop Presenter, "The Desire to Acquire: Why Shopping Malls are Sites of Religious
Violence," New England Synod Assembly, ELCA, Sturbridge, MA, May 18, 2009.
Workshop Presenter, "Who are the Lutherans?" Lutheran Services in America, National Meeting,
Washington, DC, April 30, 2009.
Keynote Presenter, Malls 'R' Us?, Annual Vaishnava-Christian Dialogue, Washington, DC, April
17-18, 2009.
"Sacrifice in American Cinema," Oxford University Colloquium, Theology Department, Oxford
England, April 4, 2009.
Keynote Speaker, "(Killing/Dying) or Living for a Cause: Youth, Violence, and Dialogue,"
At "Interreligious Friendship Dinner," sponsored by Turkish Cultural Center of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA, March 22, 2009.
"Q and A about Malls R Us," Audience Discussion after U.S. Premiere, Museum of Modern
Art, New York City, March 21, 2009.
"The Religious Violence of 'Defending' Marriage," in Sightings, March 12, 2009, online at
http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/sightings/archive_2009/0312.shtml
"Jammin' with Jeremiah Wright," in Religion in American History, March 12, 2009, online at
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/03/jon-pahl-jams-with-jeremiah-wright.html
"Fierce Grace," Sermon at LTSP Chapel, February 23, 2009.
"The Inaugural Speech: Religion's Role in the New Era of Responsibility," in Religion in
American History, January 20, 2009, at
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/01/inaugural-speech-religions-role-in-new.html
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Invited Lecture Series, "Youth Ministry in Modern America," Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church,
January 18-February 15, 2009.
Respondent, "Christianity and Homosexuality in America, 1950-the present," American Society
Of Church History, Annual Meeting, New York City, January 4, 2009.
2008
"Dying for a Cause: Youth, Violence, and the Gűlen Movement--Beyond
Dialogue and Tolerance," at "Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: New
Perspectives on the Gulen Movement," Georgetown University, November 14-15,
2008, at http://www.gulenconference.us/index.php
"Why Religious Freedom Was (Is) Necessary: Religious Violence in Early America--the Case of
Mary Dyer," Friends Historical Association, Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia,
PA, November 8, 2008.
Respondent, "Taking the Testimony of Genocide: The Work of Fr. Patrick
Desbois," AAR Annual Meeting, Special Session, Sunday, November 2, 2008.
Presider, "Pluralism and Peacemaking," AAR Annual Meeting, Saturday,
November 1, 2008.
"A Century of Harvests," Preacher at Centennial Observation, Bethany Lutheran Church,
Cromwell, CT, October 26, 2008
Moderator and Commentator, "Ultimate Sacrifices: Religion, Violence, and Nation in America,"
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, October 19, 2008.
Moderator, "Lutherans, Gender, and American History," Lutheran Historical Conference Bi-
Annual Meeting, Wagner College, New York, NY, October 13, 2008.
Invited Lecture, "Faith and Presidential Politics, the 2004 Campaign with an Eye on 2008," Holy
Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading, PA, October 12, 2008; November 9, 2009.
Keynote Speaker, "Lutherans, Paradoxes, and Actual Places of Grace," Allegheny Synod
ELCA Bishop's Convocation, September 29-October 1, 2008, Ligonier, PA.
"Rethinking 'Violence,' and Rethinking 'Religion,' in Light of Virginia Tech Shootings and the
History of Childhood and Youth," in Newsletter of the Society for Childhood and Youth,
#12, Summer 2008, at http://www.history.vt.edu/Jones/SHCY/Newsletter12/Pahl.html.
Moderator, Session on "Foundations," Anti-Popery: The Transatlantic Experience, c. 1530-1850,
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, September
19, 2008.
Guest Preacher, "Living Rocks," St. Mark Lutheran Church, Clifton Heights, PA, August 24,
2008.
Guest Preacher, "Walking on Water," Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Lessor, Wisconsin,
August 10, 2008.
Invited Lecture Series: "Religious Freedom as Antidote to Religious Violence," Lutherhostel
Life-long Learning Keynote Lectures, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia,
June 15-18.
Invited Lecture, "The Dignity of Difference (Interfaith Dialogue)," Women of the ELCA,
Montgomery County Chapter, Christ Lutheran Church, Kulpsville, PA, April 20, 2008.
Participant, "Vaishnava-Christian Dialogue: 'Why Dialogue?' Washington DC, April 18-19,
2008.
"Brotherhood and Sisterhood in World Religions," 3 Week Lecture Series, Bryn Mawr
Presbyterian Church, April 6- 20, 2008.
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Invited Lecture, "Shopping Malls, Seminaries, and Holy Scripture," New England Synod ELCA
Assembly Event, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Sturbridge, MA, April 12, 2008
Moderator, "Tough Texts," Jewish-Christian-Muslim Reflections on "Identity and the Other,"
"Gender and Sexuality," and "War and Peace," 3 Week Series, The Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Philadelphia, March 30-April 13, 2008
"Distinct Histories, Shared Ethic, Common Future," Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue,
Women of the ELCA, St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Devon, PA, March 31, 2008.
"What is a Prophet?"Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue, Temple University Muslim
Students Association, March 25, 2008.
"The Lynching of Jeremiah Wright," in"Religion in American History," 3/20/2008, at
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2008/03/jon-pahl-on-jeremiah-wright.html,
Invited Lectures, "Prayer and Sacred Space," 2 week series, Trinity Episcopal Church,
Swarthmore, PA, February 17-24, 2008.
"Tru-Envy,"[On Lawncare], in Criterion: A Publication of the University of Chicago Divinity
School, January 2008: 19-20.
"A Celebration of Brotherhood and Sisterhood," Dialogue Forum Ashura Day Event,
Philadelphia, PA, February 23, 2008.
"The Violence Iceberg and the Coming Religious Peace," Religion and Anti-Violence Summit,
Sponsored by Congressman Joe Sestak, Drexel Hill, PA, February 20, 2008.
Invited Lecture, "Youth, Religion, and the State in Modernity," at Amherst College, Journal of
History of Childhood and Youth Inaugural Lectures, February 9, 2008.
Invited Lectures, "Brotherhood and Sisterhood in the History of Christianity," at Bryn Mawr
Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1/14/2008 - 2/3/2008.
2007
"Holy War, Just War, and the Coming Religious Peace," St. Michael Lutheran Church, Kennett
Square, PA, December 2, 2007.
Invited Lecture, "Violence, Rapture, and Youth Rituals," Interact Theater Company Friday
Forum, Philadelphia, PA, November 30, 2007.
"Rev. Stevie's Vision [on Stevie Wonder]," in Religion in American History, at
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2007/11/rev-stevies-vision-and-were-not-talking.html
"Monster Lazarus[Luke 16:19-31]," Guest Preacher, Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod,
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Delaware Conference Evening Worship,
November 11, 2007.
"God's Joke [Luke 18:9-14]," Guest Preacher, Princeton University Chapel, October 28, 2007.
"Kathedralen des Konsums: Religiösen Symbolik in Enkaufszentren," in Der Überblick
43(September 2007): 9-11.
Kuehner Lecture Series, “Civil Religion, Cultural Religion, and the Reformed Episcopal
Churches,” at St. Paul’s Reformed Episcopal Church, Oreland PA, December 3, 2007.
Invited Lecture: “Are the Fundamentalists Winning?” 3-week series, St. David’s
Episcopal Church, St. David’s PA, October 23-November 6
Invited Lecture, “The Desire to Acquire: Shopping Malls and American Sacred
Space,” St. Peter’s Catholic Church Distinguished Lectureship, Cleveland, OH
Invited Lecture, “Places of Grace,” 4 week series, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn
Mawr, PA, September 30-October 21
Invited Lecture, “The Desire to Acquire: Shopping Malls as Sites of Religious
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Violence,” The College of New Jersey, October 10
Knutson Lectureship, Pacific Lutheran University, “The Desire to Acquire:
Shopping Malls, Religious Violence, and Actual Places of Grace,” September 17, 2007
"An Americanist in Turkey, III: Turkish Family Values," in Religion in American History,
August 28, 2007, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2007/08/turkish-family-values.html
“An Americanist in Turkey, II: Love Jihad?” in Religion in American History, Thursday, August
23, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2007/08/love-jihad.html
“An Americanist in Turkey, I: Competing Fundamentalisms,” in Religion in American History,
August 7, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/search?q=competing+fundamentalisms
Invited Lecture Series, “Religion and Violence in America: From Puritan Boston to Modern
Baghdad,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, 4 week series, 6/3-6/24, 2007.
“The Desire to Acquire: Or, Why Shopping Malls are Sites of Religious Violence,” in The
Marty Center Web-Forum, The University of Chicago Divinity School, May, 2007 at
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/webforum/archive.shtml
Review of A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes, ed. Clare A.
Lees and Gillian R. Overing (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2004), in
Church History 76(September 2007): 614-15.
Presentation, “Spectacles of Sacrifice: The Cinema of Adolescent Abjection, 1936-1996,” at
Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, Linköping, Sweden, June 28, 2007
Invited Lecture, “Malls, Markets, and Lutheran Spirituality,” at Women of the ELCA, Northeast
PA Chapter, Tannersville, PA, June 23, 2007.
Invited Lecture, “Women in American Lutheran History,” at Women of the ELCA, Montgomery
County Chapter, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Melrose Park, PA, April 23, 2007.
Invited Lecture, “Earth-Gift-Spirituality,” Earth-Day Celebration, Swarthmore Sierra Club,
Swarthmore Fun-Fair, Swarthmore, PA, April 22, 2007.
Invited Lecture, “Beyond the Bullet: Youth, Faith, and Violence in America,” at Atonement
Lutheran Church, Wyomissing, PA, March 18, 2007
Invited Lecture, “Does God Wear Clothes?” St. John’s Lutheran Church, Summit, NJ, March
11, 2007.
“Christians and Muslims: Can We Find Common Ground?,” Interfaith Dialogue, Reformation
Lutheran Church, Media, PA, March 4, 2007.
“Are the Fundamentalists Winning?,” 3 week lecture series, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church,
Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania, January 28-Feb 11, 2007.
“Nationalist Religious Broadcasting: The Case of the 2004 U.S. Presidential
Nominating Conventions,” in Political Theology 8(January, 2007): 33-61.
“Founding an Empire of Sacrifice: Innocent Domination and the Quaker Martyrs Of Boston,
1659-1661,” in Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence across Time
And Tradition, ed. James K. Wellman, Jr (Lanham, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007):
97-113.
2006
Guest Preacher/Teacher, “Seeing God,” at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church,
Manasquan, NJ, 12/2-3, 2006.
“America’s Sister [Helen Prejean],” in Journal of Lutheran Ethics (December 2006), at
http://www.elca.org/jle/article.asp?k=679
Column, “Ted Haggard’s Sin,” in Sightings, November 30, 2006, at
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http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2006/1130.shtml
Chair, “Grassroots Peacebuilding: Case Studies from Around the Globe,” National Meeting,
American Academy of Religion, Washington, DC, November 20, 2006.
Column: “Muslims Teach Lesson on Sacrifice,” in Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2006, p.
B2, at http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/opinion/local2/region/15783956.htm
Guest Preacher, “St. Paul’s Lutheran Church 250th
Anniversary Celebration,” Hamburg, PA,
October 29, 2006.
Forthcoming, Review of Sharon D. Welch, After Empire: The Art and Ethos of Enduring Peace,
Currents in Theology and Mission (Winter, 2006)
Invited Lecture Series, “Are the Fundamentalists Winning?” at St. Martin-of-the-Fields
Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA, October 1, 8, 15, 2006.
Invited Lecture, “The Heart of Diakon: Why Lutherans Started Social Ministry Organizations,”
Diakon Board of Directors Meeting, Baltimore, MD, August 18, 2006.
Conference Presentation, “The Coming Religious Peace: A Girardian Perspective on the History
of Religions in the Twentieth-Century,” at The Colloquium on Violence and Religion,
Ottawa, CA, June 1, 2006
Review of Matthias Beier, A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen
Drewermann, in Interpretation 60(2) April, 2006: 226-7
DVD Video, “What’s Behind Left Behind?” Produced by John Kahler for Lutheran Bible
Ministries, Summer 2006.
Invited Lecture, “Young Adult Ministry,” ELCA Council of Executives, Chicago, Illinois, March
21, 2006.
Review of Michael Lerner, The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from
the Religious Right, in Crosscurrents, 56(1) Spring, 2006: 133-137.
Preaching/lecturing, “The True Vine,” Our Savior Lutheran Church, Manhasset, NY (Long
Island), May 14, 2006
Preaching/lecturing, “The Coming Peace,” Zion Lutheran Church, Oldwick, NJ, May 7, 2006.
Review of Kathryn M. Galchutt, The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968: Lutherans and
Race in the Civil Rights Era, in Journal of Religion 86(October, 2006): 686-88.
Preaching/lecturing, “The Color of Grace,” Faith Lutheran Church, Pennsauken, NJ, April 2,
2006
Review of Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits, Changing
Slowly, ed. Andrew Walsh and Mark Silk. Religion by Region Series, in Lutheran
Quarterly, Summer, 2006: 221-223.
Preaching/lecturing, “One Body,” Trinity Lutheran Church, Lehighton, PA, March
26, 2006
Preaching/lecturing, “The Light of the World,” Immanuel Lutheran Church, Old Saybrook, CT,
March 5, 2006
2005
“The Most Acceptable Prejudice [against children and youth; on pedophilia],” in Sightings,
November 10, 2005, at
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2005/1110.shtml
Invited Lecture, “The Desire to Acquire, or, Why Malls are Sites of Religious
Violence,” Purdue University, Department of Sociology/Anthropology; Program in
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American Studies, November 7, 2005.
Invited Workshops, “Our Stories, God’s Story, and Places of Grace,” Indianapolis Center for
Congregations, Consultation on “Sacred Space,” November 5-6, 2005
Invited Lecture “Have You Been Left Behind (By Popular Culture?),” Workshop for Parish
Pastors sponsored by Diakon Social Services, Topton, PA, October 19, 2005.
“Theological Education in a Pluralist Context,” International Visitors Council of Philadelphia,
Visit by Pakistani Religious Leaders, October 6, 2005.
“Why Now? Lutherans Join the Mainline Debate on Homosexuality,” in Journal
of Lutheran Ethics, August, 2005, at http://www.elca.org/scriptlib/dcs/jle/article.asp?
aid=591
“Jesus and The Buddha at Live 8,” in Sightings, July 14, 2005, at
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2005/0714.shtml
“God and Dogs,” in Earth Letter (Summer, 2005): 6-7, 13.
"Coming out of the Church: The Coming of Age of a Lesbian Catholic Schoolgirl,
1931-1949,” at The Society for the History of Children and Youth, Biannual Meeting,
Marquette University, August 7, 2005
Invited Lecture, "The Desire to Acquire: Imaging God at a Shopping Mall," The Colloquium on
Violence and Religion, Annual Meeting, Koblenz, Germany, July 7, 2005.
Invited Lecture, "Congregations, Nonviolence, and Peacemaking," Temple Lutheran Church,
Pennsauken, NJ, April 24, 2005
Invited Lecture, "Youth, Faith, and Violence," at Christ Lutheran Church, Bridgeton, NJ,
April 10, 2005
Invited Lecture, "Consider the Lilies: Sacred Space in America," at The Indianapolis Center
for Congregations, April 7, 2005
Invited Lecture, "Muslims, Christians, Theological Education and Civil Society," International
Visitors Council of Philadelphia, Uzbekistan-U.S. Dialogue Program, March 9, 2005.
"The Slaveholding Religion: Rituals of Bodily Discipline, Inversion, and Other Strategies in
African-American Religions from Jarena Lee to Spike Lee," at Mid-Atlantic Regional
Meeting, American Academy of Religion, March 4, 2005
Invited Lecture, "Youth, Faith, and Violence," at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Collingdale, NJ,
February 21, 2005.
Invited Lecture, "Religion, Terrorism, and Peacemaking," at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Clifton
Heights, PA, February 13, 2005.
Review of Mark Oppenheimer, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: American Religion in the Age of
Counterculture (Yale, 2003), in Lutheran Quarterly (Winter, 2005): 492-4.
Invited Lecture, "Lutherans and Sacred Places," at Zion Lutheran Church, Long Valley, NJ,
February 5-6, 2005
Invited Lecture Series, "Sacred Places," St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor, Pennsylvania,
January 16-30, 2005
Invited Lecture, "Dissing Disney: Corporate Control and Cities of God," at National Gathering,
Lutheran Student Movement, Houston, Texas, January 1.
2004
"Converging Civilizations," in Sightings, December 2, 2004,
at http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2004/1202.shtml
Invited Lecture, "Nationalist Religious Broadcasting: The Case of the 2004 U.S. Presidential
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Nominating Conventions," Ankara, Turkey, November 8, 2004.
"Motivating a Movement," in Sightings, 10/21/04, online at
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2004/1021.shtml
"Driving While Faculty: The Religion of Innocent Domination in America," in CrossCurrents 54
(Summer 2004): 82-96. Online at http://www.crosscurrents.org/Pahl0204.htm
Invited Lecture, “Theological Education and the Coming Religious Peace,” at Opening
Convocation, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, September 7, 2004.
“Why Now? Some Modest Historical Perspective on a Queer Obsession”(Why people of faith in
America are obsessed with issues related to gays and lesbians), Witherspoon Society (Presbyterian
Peace Fellowship) web page, Winter 2004.
Review of Walter Wink, Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way (Philadelphia: Fortress, 2003), in
Currents in Theology and Mission, October 2004: 292
Invited Lecture, “Postmodern Sacred Places,” at ELCA Global Mission Event, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, July 30, 2004.
“Trees and Transcendence,” in Parish Practice Notebook (Summer, 2004): 1-14.
Invited Lecture, “Lutherans and American Historical Trends, “ Lutherhostel, June 21-23, 2004,
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Invited Lecture, “Religion, Nation, and Terrorism,” Northeastern Pennsylvania Ministerial
Association, Topton, PA, June 18, 2004.
Invited Lecture, “Malls, Liturgy, and American Culture,” Sweden/US Interchange, at
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, May 19, 2004
Invited Lecture, “An Empire of Sacrifice: Capital Punishment in America from Mary Dyer to
Dead Man Walking,” The University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 12, 2004
Invited Lecture, “Consider the Lilies: Sacred Space in a Consumerist Culture,” The Center for
Congregations, Indianapolis, IN, May 6, 2004
Invited Lecture, “What’s Behind Left Behind? The Problem of Bible Abuse in America,” Perth
-Amboy, NJ, May 1, 2004
“Tru-Envy? The Suburban Lawn and Consumer Desire” in Sightings, April 13, 2004, at
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2004/0413.shtml
Invited lecture series, “Does God Wear Clothes?” Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA,
March 2004.
Invited Lecture, “Shopping Malls, Disney World, and the American Quest for Sacred Space,”
Lehigh University American Studies Program, Feb 18, 2004
Invited Lecture, “The Coming Religious Peace,” at Central Baptist Church, Wayne, PA, January
18, 2004.
2003
“Of Specks and Logs: Nationalist Bias in Recent Analyses of ‘Religion’ and ‘Violence,’” at
National Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, Georgia, November 23,
2003.
“Spectacles of Sacrifice in a Theater of Terror: The Cinema of Adolescent Abjection in
America, 1936-1996,” at National Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta,
Georgia, November 21, 2003.
“Quaker Martyrs in Boston, 1659-61: An Early Episode of Capital Punishment in America,”
Lecture at Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church, 11/2/03.
“Mickey-Love at the Magic Kingdom,” in Journal of Lutheran Ethics (October, 2003):
http://www.elca.org/scriptlib/dcs/jle/article.asp?aid=138
“Rites and Wrongs of Passage,” Catechumen Retreat, Crossroads Outdoor Ministry, New Jersey
Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church/Episcopal Diocese of Newark, October 11-12,
21
2003.
“Violence from Religious Groups,” in International Handbook of Violence Research, ed.
John Hagan and Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Kluwer Academic, Winter 2003).
“Religious Revivals,” in The Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and
Society, ed. Paula Fass. 3 vols. (NY: Macmillan, October, 2003) II: 710-11. .
“Youth Ministries,” in The Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society,
ed. Paula Fass. 3 vols. (NY: Macmillan, October, 2003). III: 917-20.
“Pilgrimage to the Mall of America,” in Word & World 23(Summer 2003): 263-271.
“Freedom’s Rise: The Constitution Center in Philadelphia,” in Sightings, September 11, 2003, at
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2003/0911.shtml
“Shopping Malls,” in Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions,
Diversity, and Popular Expressions, ed. Gary Laderman and Luis León (NY: ABC-Clio,
2003), Vol. 2: 580-2.
“Home, Suburban,” in Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions,
Diversity, and Popular Expressions, ed. Gary Laderman and Luis León (NY: ABC-Clio, 2003),
Vol. 2: 586-8.
“Spectacles of Sacrifice in a Theater of Terror: The Cinema of Adolescence and Youth Violence
in America,” at Cross Currents Research Colloquium/Coolidge Fellows Program,
Columbia University/Union Theological Seminary, 7/12/03.
Quoted in Kristen Campbell, “Making Worship Space Relevant—and Message Meaningful—to
Children,” in Religious News Service, at
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/1207378.html
“Saying No, Saying Yes: The State, Christian Youth Ministries, and the Adolescent Body in
America, 1930-1999,” at National Meeting, Society for the History of Children and
Youth, June 27, 2003, Baltimore, MD
“The Plowshares Survey, Violence, and Congregations in the U.S.,” presentation at National
Health Ministries Association Meeting, June 19, 2003, Valley Forge, PA, with Lisa A.
Pahl, R.N..
Quoted in Kristin Holmes, “Scholars Debate ‘Open Theism,’” in Worldwide Religious News, at
http://www.wwrn.org/parse.php?idd=7503
“Building Bridges: Violence, Faith, and September 11 in Perspective,” workshop at St. John’s
Lutheran Church, East Windsor, NJ, March 30, 2003.
“Quaker Constancy,” in Sightings, March 6, 2003, at
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2003/0306.shtml
“Re-creating America: Youth Ministry and Social Change, 1930-1999,” in The Encyclopedia of
Informal Education, at http://www.infed.org/christianyouthwork/recreating_america.htm
“Sacred Places,” Two-Week Adult Forum Series, Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA,
March-April, 2003
“Eminem: Hip-hop Hype,” Sightings, January 16, 2003. Available at
http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2003/0116.html
2002
“Jimmy Carter’s Civil Christianity,” Sightings, November 14, 2002. Available at
http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2002/1114.html
“A Reply to Philip Jenkins, “The Next Christianity,” Sightings, September 27,
2002. Available at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2002/0927.html
“This Land is Whose Land?,” First Friday Guest Lectureship, Muhlenberg College, Allentown,
PA, September 13, 2002.
“Weak Religions, Strong Religions, and Violence,” Trinity Lutheran Church, Lansdale, PA,
Guest Speaker Series, May 19, 2002.
22
“Violence, Justice, and the ELCA Social Statements,” Congregational Study Guide, Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, May, 2002. Distributed to churches throughout the
Northeast.
“Violence and Healthcare,” with Lisa A. Pahl. Keynote address at Southeast Pennsylvania Parish
Nurse Association Meeting, March 16, 2002.
“Go Valpo! Go … Crusaders?” in Christian Science Monitor, Monday, March 11, 2002, p. 9,
at http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0311/p09s02-coop.html
“Forum: Teaching the Introductory Course in American Religion,” in Religion and American
Culture 12(Winter 2002): 1-30.
“Religion and Violence in America,” Five-Week Series, Reformation Lutheran Church, Media
PA, Feb-March, 2002
2001
“Saved by Zero?” in Sightings, December 20, 2001. Available at
http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2001/sightings-122001.html
“The Scandal of the Theological Mind: On the Disciplinary Captivity of Theological Schools,”
in Theological Education 37 (2001): v-viii.
“Weak Religion, Strong Religion, and Violence: Christianity, Islam, and September 11 in
Perspective,” at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, December 18, 2001.
“Campground and Kinship Cultures: White Protestant and African American Youth Ministry,
1930-1999,” in American Studies Journal 47(Summer 2001): 51-60
“God’s Clothing,” Two-week Lectureship, Wagner College, “Theological Education with
Youth,” Summer Theological Academy, July, 2001
“Beyond the Bullet: Youth, Faith, and Violence in America,” at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church,
Skippack, PA, June 10, 2001
“Recreating Church and Culture: Lutheran Youth, 1890-1930,” at The Lutheran Historical
Society Annual Meeting, April 28, 2001, Harrisburg, PA.
“Caring for Creation: The ELCA’s Social Statement on the Environment,” at Reformation
Lutheran Church, Media, PA, April 22, 2001.
“No ‘Reefer Madness’ Here: Only the ‘Academic Waking State,’” review of Robert C. Fuller,
Stairways to Heaven: Drugs in American Religious History," H-Net Reviews, March, 2001.
URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11564985221875.
“Beyond the Bullet,” address to Southeast Pennsylvania “Fellowship of Lutheran Youth”
Gathering, Trevose, Pa, February, 2001.
2000
“God’s Clothing: The Limits of Post-Modernity and Living Waters--God as Source,
(Dis)Solution, and Delight,” in Questiones Liturgigue--Studies in Liturgy 81(Winter, 2000): 1-
24. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Press.
“‘That Vexing Question of Dancing’: Youth, Sex, and Rites of Passage in American Religious History,
1930-1999,” at Midwest American Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL, April 17, 2000.
“Recreating America: Youth Ministry in the United States, 1930-1999,” at American Society of Church
History, Chicago, IL, January 6, 2000.
1988-1999 (selected)
Not listed are many reviews, commentaries, or book notes in publications such as The Christian Century,
Church History, Religious Studies Review, and others.
“Spectacles of Sacrifice: The Cinema of Adolescence and Youth Violence in American Culture,”
in Visible Violence: Sichtbare und verschleierte Gewalt im Film (Munster: Lit Verlag,
1998): 169-186.
23
“Sport, Religion, and Violence,” in The Cresset 58(Easter, 1998):188-193.
Review of Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior, by Phil Jackson, and God
in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America, by Robert J. Higgs, in The Cresset 57
(Easter, 1997): 29-30
“Lutheranism in the 1920's: How History Changes when Viewed through the Eyes of Youth,” in
Lutheran Historical Conference Reports, 49(1996): 26-45.
“Accommodation to Violence: The Rise and Demise of the Walther League,” in Currents in
Theology and Mission 23(October, 1996): 336-246.
“Generational Violence: The Sacrifice of Youth in Modern America,” at The Colloquium on
Violence and Religion, Annual Meeting, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, June 29, 1996
Review of American Sacred Space, ed. David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal, in The
Christian Century 114(January 22, 1997): 84-5.
“A National Shrine to Scapegoating?: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC,” in
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 2(Fall, 1995): 165-188.
“Walther League Messenger,” in Popular Religious Magazines of the United States. Ed. P
Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995): 165-188.
“Letter from Washington: Sacrifice and Violence,” in The Cresset 57(May 1994): 29-30.
“Jonathan Edwards and the Aristocracy of Grace,” in Fides et Historia 25(Winter/Spring, 1993):
62-73.
“The Walther League and the Education of Lutherans,” in Lutheran Education 128(March/April
1993): 223-228
“The Antinomian Age in America,” in The Cresset 52(September, 1989): 5-10
“Billy Sunday,” in Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Popular Religion. Ed. Charles H. Lippy
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989): 410-417.
“Sinclair Lewis,” in Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Popular Religion. Ed. Charles H. Lippy
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989): 241-247
“Public Religion,” weekly newspaper column, in Suburban Life, west suburban Chicago daily,
9/1/86-8/1/88..
24
REFERENCES
Rev. Dr. Martin J. Lohrmann Dr. James K. Wellman, Jr.
Assistant Professor of Lutheran Confessions Professor, Chair, Comparative
And Heritage Religion Program, Box 353650
Wartburg Theological Seminary The University of Washington
Dubuque, IA 52003 Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: 215-510-9478 Phone: (206)-543-0339
e-mail: martinlohrmann@hotmail.com e-mail:
jwellman@u.washington.edu
Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible
Brite Divinity School
Fort Worth, TX 76109
Phone: 817-257-7575
e-mail: wil.gafney@tcu.edu
4/19/2016
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  • 1. Jon Pahl, Ph.D. Peter Paul and Elizabeth Hagan Professor of History, 2012- Professor of the History of Christianity in North America, 2005-2012 Associate Professor of American Religious History, 2000-05 Director of MA Programs, 2009-2015 The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia 7301 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19119-1794 1-610-909-7107 (Cell: Preferred) 1-215-248-6342 (Office) 1-610-627-5876 (Home) jpahl@ltsp.edu www.ltsp.edu Adjunct Professor of Religion Temple University, 2004-2014 Department of Religion Anderson Hall 1114 W. Berks Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090 Phone: (215)-204-7973 Visiting Professor of Religion, 2006-2008 Princeton University Department of Religion 1879 Hall Princeton, NJ 08544-4482 Phone: 609-258-4482 Instructor-Associate Professor of Theology Valparaiso University, 1988-2000 Valparaiso, IN 46383 Phone: (219)-464-5000
  • 2. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY Jon Pahl is an American religious historian, award-winning teacher, musician, and community activist. “JP,” as he is known to his students, is committed to ethical and academic integrity, to the empowerment of all people through critical and collaborative inquiry, and to participation in life-giving congregations, agencies, and other sustainable enterprises. He served as architect and founding Director of the MAPL (Master of Arts in Public Leadership) program at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, which prepares future leaders for spiritually-engaged social ministries. Dr. Pahl received his BA from Valparaiso University, MTS from Trinity Lutheran Seminary, and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he studied with noted Lutheran historian Martin E. Marty. Jon has authored numerous articles and columns in academic and popular publications, and his books include Paradox Lost: Free Will and Political Liberty in American Culture, 1630-1760 (Johns Hopkins University Press); Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place, and, most recently, Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence (NYU Press). Jon has enjoyed speaking with audiences from Ankara, Turkey to Anaheim, California, including at Cambridge and Oxford Universities in England, at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and other colleges and universities in the U.S., and at venues in Australia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Uganda, and across Europe. He has been interviewed on ABC, the BBC and other media outlets, and appeared with his son, Justin, in the documentary film Malls R Us, which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Dr. Pahl is currently working on a book with the title A Coming Religious Peace, and another project entitled Fethullah Gülen as Peacebuilder: A Life of Hizmet. Jon lives with his wife, Lisa, in Philadelphia’s Mt. Airy neighborhood, where he enjoys spending time with his extended family, sports, gardening, and sitting in on the saxophone with jazz, gospel, and rhythm and blues bands. He has played with some of Philadelphia’s finest jazz musicians. CURRENT RESEARCH A Coming Religious Peace Contrary to the stereotype that attributes only violence to religion, this work lifts up historically-significant examples of religious peacebuilding in American history. From the anti-slavery activism of Francis Daniel Pastorius in the 17th century to the abolitionism of Angelina and Sarah Grimke in the 19th century, down to the feminism of early 20th century filmmaker Lois Weber and civil rights activism of Diane Nash, A Coming Religious Peace weaves an unexpected and surprising legacy of effective peacebuilding by religious agents in American history. Building on the work of theorists with global reach such as Elise Boulding, David Cortright, Leymah Gbowee, John Paul Lederach, and Steven Pinker, Jon Pahl shows how religious leaders have mobilized potent discourses, practices, communities and institutions to promote a pragmatic pacifism with deep roots across traditions. This emerging interfaith consensus poses a strong counter to the so-called "realism" of state-sponsored and market-induced violence, and is likely to prove the only long-term alternative to the apocalyptically-minded violence of terrorists. Fethullah Gülen as Peacebuilder: A Life of Hizmet The Turkish imam M. Fethullah Gülen once wrote that “power depends on truth.” This simple maxim invokes Gandhi’s notion of satyagraha, or truth-force, and helps explain how Gülen has inspired a global movement of Muslims dedicated to inter-religious dialogue, scientific education, and direct service—hizmet in Turkish. How did this modest, soft-spoken, simple-living man from a small village in Northeastern Turkey come to inspire a global movement on behalf of peace? In the first English-language biography of Mr. Gülen, Jon Pahl explores the childhood, early career, and rise to influence of this controversial yet important figure in the history of religions. 2
  • 3. BOOKS PUBLISHED/PROJECTS COMPLETED Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence (NYU Press, 2010). Building on and critiquing leading theories of violence and religion from Rene Girard to Regina Schwartz, this book explores, around constructions of age, race, gender, and the nation, selected episodes of violence and their religious features in American history. Malls 'R' Us Featured role in theatrical-release documentary film on the global spread of shopping malls, produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and directed by Helene Klodawsky. Involvement grew out of Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces (see below). Opened March 21, 2009. An American Teacher: Coming of Age and Coming Out, The Memoirs of Loretta Coller (Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2009). Traces the life, loves, and eventual murder of Loretta Coller (1931-1994), including her working-class Catholic upbringing in Wisconsin, expulsion from the Air Force during the McCarthy era for “homosexuality,” and career as a high school educator in Southern California. Edited with an Introduction and Epilogue. Who Are the Lutherans? Or, Why Did We Start So Many Social Ministry Organizations? (Bethlehem, PA: Christmas Press, 2009). Orientation book and DVD Introduction to Lutherans and global Lutheranism, focused on the history of Lutheran social ministries as institutional expressions of Lutheran public leadership and advocacy for justice and peace. Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place (Portland, OR: Wipf and Stock 2009 [2003]). Part One develops a cultural critique of shopping malls, Walt Disney World, and the suburban home (domestic sanitation and lawncare) as vestigial sacred places that point to a “violence of banality.” Part Two weaves a “theology of place” centered around biblical metaphors like “living waters,” “the true vine,” “one Body,” and “cities of God.” Youth Ministry in Modern America: 1930-the present. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2000). Traces the rise and significance of four streams of Christian work with young people--Lutheran, Catholic, Evangelical, and African American, and especially their vulnerability to violence, in the late twentieth-century. Hopes and Dreams of All: The International Walther League, and Lutheran Youth in American Culture, 1893-1993 (Wipf and Stock, 2006 [Chicago: Wheat Ridge, 1993]). This social history follows the emergence of a German-American youth movement in the late nineteenth-century to its demise in the cultural conflicts of the 1960s and 70s. Based on archival research, and called by one reviewer a "model history of an organization in its cultural setting." Paradox Lost: Free Will and Political Liberty in American Culture, 1630-1760 New Studies in Intellectual History. (Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992). Connects the intellectual debates over free will and predestination in American theology to the formation of political ideologies and violence in early America. SELECTED COURSES OFFERED 3
  • 4. (Undergraduate and Graduate) All teaching is competency-based and multiple access, including distributed learning/intensive/hybrid and traditional face-to-face dialogical pedagogy, following the tenets of Paolo Freire and bell hooks Introduction to Public Theology (Annually—LTSP) A foundational course for all LTSP students, “IPT” engages a diverse student community (by age, race, and gender-identification) in collaborative learning to gain competencies across disciplines (Scriptural Reasoning, Historical Inquiry, Theology, Integrative Practice). Students work together in ministerial formation and discernment, toward theological and moral integrity, and on behalf of global, ecumenical and interfaith engagement for justice and peace. Religious History and Public Leadership (Every other year, LTSP): Foundational course in MAPL program, exploring how selected religious leaders (Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) have engaged their traditions and communities in public action, and applying skills gained through a practical, collaborative project (2015 leaders=Oprah, Gandhi, Hanh, Sacks, Gbowee, Gülen). Film and Religions; Topic for 2016—“Do Black Lives Matter in the Media?” (Annually— LTSP) Tracing a discrete topic each year (coming-of-age, violence, Jesus, sacrifice, peacebuilding, etc), this course engages the methods of an American cultural historian and historian of religions toward understanding selected films (and other media) in their contexts. Students gain skills at interpretation and analysis of media, and at articulating media literacy among communities, congregations, or agencies. Religions and Violence (Valparaiso, Princeton (2007), Temple (2009), LTSP--every other year) Have “terrorists” been the only violent believers? This course explores patterns of discourse, practice, and the production of power in discrete cases of violence and conflict, primarily in American history but with an eye on global trends. Students apply their learning through engagement with a local community, congregation. or agency on a particular project that seeks to prevent, mitigate, or reconcile conflict. Religions and Peacebuilding (Princeton (2008), LTSP—every other year) How have participants in historic religious traditions contributed to more just, peaceful societies? Theories of peace-building are tested in relationship to specific historical contexts and cases, and students are invited to practice peacebuilding through engagement with a particular project in relationship to a community, congregation, or agency. Religions in North America (Annually, Valparaiso and LTSP) This course explores the diverse ecologies and histories of religions in North America, with a focus on local contexts, through study of primary texts, historical figures and movements, web-pages of various groups, and guest speakers and visits. Traditions studied include selected communities of Native Americans, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the U.S.. Competencies gained include familiarity with the discourses, practices, and social structures of significant groups of religious believers in the U.S., and experience in relationship-building across traditions. 4
  • 5. CIVIC ENGAGEMENT/SERVICE/ADMINISTRATION Philadelphia PhD Director Jewel Herder: “The Violence of Silence: The Pedophilia Scandal in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia” Marva Rice: “Betwixt and Between: Liminality and the Women of the Civil Rights Movement, 1935-the Present” Director of MA Programs, LTSP, July 2009--2015 Initiated, designed, and secured Commonwealth Approval and Accreditation for new MA program in public leadership; oversaw curriculum development, Articulation Agreements, recruitment, field work, and evaluation of program efficacy. Handed fiscally healthy and growing program to new Administrator, July, 2015. Generated $1.2 million in revenue for LTSP, 2009-2015. Feast of Justice, Board of Directors, 2013- ; Chair, 2014- Hunger Ministry, NE Philadelphia; $4 million/annual budget Program Unit Co-Chair, American Academy of Religion--Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Group, 2005-2012 Organized scholarly meetings and encouraged emerging scholars Founding Editor/Book Reviews: The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Wrote Business Plan, secured publisher—The Johns Hopkins University Press Editor, Online Scholarly List-serve, H-Peace, January 2007-2011 Lutheran Settlement House, Board of Directors. Fall, 2005- 2011 Graduate Studies Committee, LTSP, Fall, 2005- Helped develop and initiate PhD program with focus on “public theology” Reader/Reviewer for NYU Press; Journal of Religion; Cross-Currents; and many others Library Committee, LTSP, Fall 2002- Board of Directors, The Lutheran Archives Center, Philadelphia, PA, Fall 2001- Multicultural Audit Follow-up Committee, Spring 2002. Drafted recommendations regarding gender equity and ethnicity. Public Theology Study Committee, Spring 2002-2004. Examining role of “public theology” in curriculum, research, and pedagogy. LTSP START (Accreditation): Student Service Committee, Fall 2000-Spring 2002 ELCA New York Metropolitan Synod Candidacy Committee, Fall 2001-2005 Valparaiso, Indiana Board of Directors, Habitat for Humanity of Valparaiso, Fall 1995-Spring 2000. Founder and Faculty Advisor, Habitat for Humanity, Valparaiso University Campus Chapter, Fall 1995-Spring 2000 Built three houses in four years, Administered “service-learning” program associated with organization Youth Minister, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Valparaiso, Fall 1997- Spring 1999. Administered budget and program. Interim Pastor (Deacon), St. Mark Lutheran Church, Medaryville, IN, 1995-1997 5
  • 6. HONORS AND GRANTS 2015: Soli Course Development Grant To create/offer course on “Faith, History, and Finance: The Spirituality of Business and the Business of Spirituality”—January, 2016 (intensive) 2014: The Wabash Center Summer Faculty Institute on Distributed (Online) Learning: Best Practices 2012: The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia 1 semester sabbatical to continue work on “A Coming Religious Peace,” and to begin “Fethullah Gülen as Peacebuilder: A Life of Hizmet” 2009: The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia 1 semester sabbatical to begin work on "A Coming Religious Peace;" continued administrative work on MAPL during sabbatical 2008: Thrivent Grant ($300K) To institute MAPL program; first graduates of pilot class, 2010. 2006: Affiliated Fellow, Princeton University, Center for the Study of Religion --coincided with Fall Semester sabbatical from LTSP, to complete work on “Empire of Sacrifice" and other projects 2003: Coolidge Fellow, Association for Religion and Intellectual Life The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Sabbatical 1/03-6/03 to begin writing “Empire of Sacrifice" 2001: Association of Theological Schools, “Small Grant” Led to completion of “Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces” 1999-2000: Lilly Consultation on Childhood and Religion in America One of twelve scholars nationally. 1998-1999 Valparaiso Project on Faith Stipend to complete Youth Ministry in Modern America 1997 Louisville Institute Research Grant To begin research on “Youth Ministry in Modern America" 1996 AAL/Habitat for Humanity Challenge Grant Funds to build 3 houses in 4 years; written by and administered with students. 1995-1996 Indiana Campus Compact Faculty Fellow Award One of six scholars in the State honored for integrating service into teaching Hellenic Laurel Award for Teaching Excellence 1994-1995 Valparaiso University Summer Research Grant Resulted in “A National Shrine to Scapegoating?” 1992-1993 Wheat Ridge/Walther League Commission Resulted in Hopes and Dreams of All 1993 Teaching Scholar-in-Residence, The Luther Institute, Washington, DC 1991-1992 Hellenic Laurel Award for Teaching Excellence 1987-1988 Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship Resulted in Paradox Lost 6
  • 7. ARTICLES, LECTURES, COLUMNS, PAPER PRESENTATIONS, REVIEWS, etc. 2016 Invited Lecture, “Engaged Empathy: The Role of Religions,” Countering Violent Extremism, Brussels, Belgium, March 18, 2016 Workshop Presentation (with Kristen Opalinski), “The Peacebuilding Garden,” Respect Graduate School, Bethlehem, PA, February 27, 2016 Invited Lecture, “Why History Isn’t Boring,” LTSP Prospective Students Day, February 6, 2016 Sermon, “The Lord, Our Shepherd: A Homily for Black History Month,” LTSP, February 4, 2016 Sermon, “Wade in the Waters,” Faith Lutheran Church, Appleton, WI, January 10, 2016 Invited Lecture, “Peacebuilding Beyond Empire and ISIS: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Can Work Together,” Islamic Society of the Fox River Valley, Neenah, WI, January 9, 2016 2015 “After Paris: How Religions Promote Peace,” The Hibben Lecture, Penn Charter High School, Philadelphia, PA, November 30, 2015 Invited Lecture Series, “American Christian Women: Leading the Way for Three Centuries,” 4 Week Series, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, November 29-December 20, 2015 Invited Lecture, “The Forgotten Lutherans: An Economic Reading of Martin Luther’s Catechisms, in Long Context,” The Forgotten Luther: Advocate for the Poor, Conference at Lutheran Church of the Reformation, Washington, DC, November 6, 2015 Invited Lecture, “Economic Inequality and Christian Ethics,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, October 25, 2015 Sermon, “Hypocrites” (Matthew 15:1-9), LTSP Chapel, October 7, 2015 Sermon, “One Grace, Many Sisters and Brothers,” St. Paul Lutheran Church, Beachwood, NJ, October 4, 2015 Speaker, “Men Can (Prevent Family Violence),” Lutheran Settlement House, Love Park, Philadelphia, October 1, 2015 Research in Turkey: Istanbul, Izmir, Erzurum, Edirne—July 20-August 14, 2015 Invited Keynote, “Fostering Freedom,” Interfaith Iftar Dinner, Philadelphia City Hall, July 3, 2015 Public Workshop, with Abeer Shaheen, “Rawabi: Peacebuilding through Social Enterprise,” LTSP/Peace Islands Institute/J-Street, May 15, 2015 “Sunrise in Jenin,” The Fountain Magazine, May-June, 2015, online at: http://blog.fountainmagazine.com/index/detail/sunrise-in-jenin-blog Invited Lecture, “Beyond ‘Abrahamic Monotheism’ and ‘Dialogue’: Potential New Roles for Religion in Transforming Conflict in Palestine,” Arab-American University, Jenin, May 6, 2015 Invited Keynote Lecture, “Reducing Poverty through Education: The Hizmet Movement and A Coming Religious Peace,” First Annual Interfaith Peacebuilding Conference, Accra, Ghana, April 30, 2015 Invited Keynote Lecture, “Peacebuilding through Education,” Interfaith Dialogue Dinner, Queens, 7
  • 8. NY, April 23, 2015 “Empire of Sacrifice,” Skype Class Session, Stanford University, Kathryn Gin Lum, April 21, 2015 Invited Lecture, “A Coming Religious Peace,” Villanova University, Peace Islands Institute Academic Forum: Philadelphia 2020, March 26, 2015 Dialogue Sermon, with Dr. Glen Willis of Won Buddhist Temple, “Birthing, Laughter, Impermanence: Genesis 20-21,” LTSP Chapel, March 1, 2015 Study Series, “In Vino Veritas: The History, Theology, and Spirituality of Wine,” 5 weeks at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, and other venues in Philadelphia Invited Lecture, “How America is Truly Exceptional: Innocent Domination from the Pequots to Shopping Malls to Ferguson,” Yale Divinity School, February 23, 2015. Invited Lecture, “Moving Forward in Faith, by Going Backwards in History,” The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Prospective Student Day, February 7, 2015. Invited Lecture, “Research Methods in Public Theology,” The Lutheran Theological Seminary At Philadelphia, PhD Seminar, February 5, 2015. Invited Participant, “Interfaith Peacebuilding: Best Practices,” Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Philadelphia, January 11-2, 2015. One of 25 scholars nationally. Invited Lecture, “Selma, Ava DuVernay, and ‘the Voice of God,’” Black Community Leaders Film Viewing and Discussion, January 10, 2015. 2014 Teach-in (Convener, Organizer, Speaker), “Black Lives Matter: Moving from Fear to Flourishing After Ferguson,” Interfaith Panel Presentations, December 16, 2014 Invited Lecture, “Religions, Violence, and Peacebuilding,” St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Whitemarsh, PA, December 7, 2014. With James Wellman, Jr, “Empire of Sacrifice, USA: Violence and the Sacred in America,” in Surviving our Origins: Rene Girard and Evolution, ed. Paul Gifford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014): Invited Lecture, “Facing Finances, or “Marketing” and “Management” are not Four-Letter Words,” Southeast PA Lutheran Ministerial Association, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Lafayette Hill, PA, September 16, 2014. Invited Lecture, “Our Daily Bread: Economics, Religion, and Daily Life,” Five Week Series, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, September 14-October 12, 2014. Sermon, “Where God Meets Us,” (Matthew 18:20), Reformation Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA, September 7, 2014 “Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities: A Coming Religious Peace,” in Rene Girard and Creative Reconciliation, ed. Vern Redekop and Thomas Ryba (Lexington Books, 2014): 117-134. Invited Lecture, “Pluralism and Religious Peacebuilding,” Gordon College Philadelphia Tour, June 23, 2014. Sermon, “Stories of Glory,” (Luke 24:25-26), Reformation Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA, May 5, 2014. Invited Lecture, “Religion that Kills, Religion that Saves—and How to Know the Difference, Or, A Coming Religious Peace,” The Longo Lecture, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA, February 27, 2014. “The Irony of the American Studies Association Boycott,” Religion Dispatches, January 2, 8
  • 9. 2014, online at http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/7464/the_irony_of_the_american_studi es_israel_boycott/ 2013 Book Review: “Clarity about Crusaders: Historical, Constructive, and Ethical Reflections on Religion and Violence in America,” a Review of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, & America, ed. John D. Carlson and Jonathan H. Ebel. Foreword by Martin Marty (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2012), in Politics and Religion 6(September 2013): 683-686. Book Review: Muslims and Others in Sacred Space, ed. Margaret Cormack (NY/ London: Oxford University Press), in Contemporary Islam (November 2013), online at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11562-013-0284-5#page-1 Book Review: “One Way to (Another) Empire,” a Review of Elizabeth A. Clark, Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth- Century America (Philadelphia and Oxford: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), in Augustinian Studies 44(1): 167-170 (2013). “America’s King of Kings: The King James Bible and American Civil Religion,” in The King James Version at 400, ed. David G. Burke, et al (Atlanta: SBL, 2013): 413-444 Invited Lecture Series, “Nonviolent Philly: Six Case Studies,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, December 1, 2013-January 19, 2014 Invited Lecture, “Hizmet from the Heart,” The Peace Islands Institute, “Friendship Dinners” at Portland, Maine; Boston, MA; Burlington, VT, published online at: http://ltsp.edu/hizmet-heart Invited Lecture, “Discovering Hizmet,” Peace Islands Institute, Manchester, NH, October 15 Invited Lecture, “Religious Peacebuilding,” International Visitors Council of Philadelphia, Belarus Delegation, July 22 Invited Lecture, “From an Empire of Sacrifice to A Coming Religious Peace,” Stanford University Department of Religion, April 28 Invited Lecture, “A Coming Religious Peace,” Tiburon Presbyterian Church, Tiburon, CA, April 26 Invited Lecture, “Economic Crises and the Promise of Spiritually-Grounded Social Enterprise: Building Peace through Sustainable Profits, Consistent with the Prophets,” Beder University, Tirana, Albania, April 18, 2013 “Ellington Easter Vespers: A Service of Interfaith Readings and Prayers,” LTSP Chapel, April 20 “Apocalypse and Sacrifice in Modern Film: American Exceptionalism And a Scandinavian Alternative,” in Sacrifice in Modern Thought, ed. Johannes Zachhuber and Julia Mezaros (Oxford University Press): 214-230. With TL Hill, “Social Entrepreneurship as Practical Social Justice,” in A Just World: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Social Justice, ed. Heon Kim (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013): 39-52. Invited Lecture: “The Potential of Spiritually-Engaged Social Enterprise,” St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Cornell University Campus Ministry, Ithaca, NY, April 29 Sermon: “Consider the Dandelions,”(John 13:1-35), St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Cornell University Campus Ministry, April 29 9
  • 10. Invited Lecture: “A Coming Religious Peace,” St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Cornell University Campus Ministry, April 28 “The Meaning of the Hizmet Movement,” Peace Islands Institute Friendship and Dialogue Dinner, Rochester, NY, April 26 Sermon: “Always There,” Installation of Allison Wilcox as Associate in Ministry, April 13 Keynote Lecture: “Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities: A Coming Religious Peace,” “A Just Peace: Perspective from the World’s Religions,” St. Joseph’s University, March 22, 2013 Sermon: “The False Riches of Resentment,” Reformation Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA, March 17 Sermon: “Lent: Our Annual Vision Quest”(Luke 4:1-13), Grace Lutheran Church, Royersford, PA, Feb 20 Invited Lecture Series: “A Coming Religious Peace,” Grace Lutheran Church, Royersford, PA, Feb 20-March 20 2012 “Sacred Space and a Coming Religious Peace in the Thought of Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet Movement,” in Making Peace in and With the World: The Gülen Movement and Eco- Justice, ed. Heon Kim and John Raines (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012): 73-84. Invited Lecture: “The Art of Living Together: Peacebuilding as Our Common Calling,” Penn State University, November 28, 2012. Invited Lecture, “Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities: Toward a Coming Religious Peace,” International Conference on Hizmet Movement and the Thought of Fethullah Gülen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 8, 2012. “Ending the Warfare between Religion and Business: Social Enterprise and A New Social Gospel Movement,” Inaugural Lecture as Peter Paul and Elizabeth Hagan Chair in the History of Christianity, November 27, 2012, online at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ygx6J-L3zc “Beyond Discontent over Civilization: Countering, Compromising with, and Transforming Empire through Religious Persistence, Policy, Projections of Transcendent Authority, and Prayer,” Respondent to Session on “Empire in American Religious History,” The American Academy of Religion, National Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 19, 2012. Book Review, “Machiavellian Missouri Synod Minions in a Modern Morality Tale: The Changing Face of Conservatism in America,” online in Religion in American History, August 5, 2012, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2012/08/machiavellian-missouri-synod-minions-in.html “Roads Not Traveled: 4 Peacemakers in American History,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, September 16-October 10, 2012. Invited Lecture, “A Coming Religious Peace?” Congregation Beth Hatikvah, Summit, NJ, May, 11, 2012 Invited Lectures, “Shopping Malls and Living Waters” and the “Walt Disney World and the Light of the World,” Swarthmore Presbyterian Church, April 29, May 6, 2012. “Match-Maker, Match-Maker, Grant-Me-A-Grant,” [Workshop, with J Eskate and K Vought], LTSP, April 29, 2012. 10
  • 11. Sermon: “Proverbs for a Seminary Community,” LTSP, April 16, 2012. Invited Lecture, with T.L. Hill, “Social Entrepreneurship as a Catalyst for Practical Social Justice:The Case of the Hizmet (Service) Movement,” Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA, March 30, 2012. Invited Lecture, “Cinema Saviors and Pseudo-Christs,” St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Whitemarsh, PA, April 15, 2012. Invited Lecture, “Apocalypse and Sacrifice in Modern Film: American Exceptionalism and a Scandinavian Alternative,” Trinity College, Oxford University, March 10, 2012. Keynote Lecture, “Sacred Space and Alleviating Poverty in the Hizmet Movement,” Hartford, CT, March 8, 2012. “A Coming Religious Peace,” Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA, February 19, 2012. “When and Why Religions Do Harm,” Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA, February 12, 2012. Invited Lecture: “Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities: Toward a Coming Religious Peace,” Seton Hall University, February 3, 2012. “Ellington Epiphany Vespers,” Resurrection Lutheran Church, Yardley, PA, January 14, 2012, and The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, February 18, 2012. Invited Lecture Series: “Our Stories, Muslim Stories, God’s Story,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, January 15, 2011-February 5, 2012 2011 Invited Lecture: “A Coming Religious Peace,” Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, Emmaus, PA, December 11, 2011. Invited Lecture: “When and Why Religions Do Harm,” Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, Emmaus, PA, December 4, 2011. “America’s ‘King of Kings’: The King James Version of the Bible and the American Civil Religion,” New Jersey Council of Churches Meeting, New Brunswick, NJ, 10/19/11, and American Academy of Religion, National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11/19/20. “What is ‘Sacred Space?’, 4 week lecture series, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, King of Prussia, PA, 10/9-10/30, 2011 “Living the Questions,” An Introduction to Martin E. Marty, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, September 6, 2011 “The Nature of Hizmet,” Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA, August 28, 2011 “The Fountain: Metaphor and Magazine,” The Fountain Magazine, July/August 2011, at http://www.fountainmagazine.com/Issue/detail/The-Fountain-Metaphor-and-Magazine “The Güzel but Zor Turkish Language,” in Occasional Religion, July 11, 2011, at http://www.occasionalreligion.com/2011_07_01_archive.html Keynote Lecture, “Malls, Muhlenberg, and Mission,” Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod Assembly, ELCA, Allentown, PA, June 17, 2011. Video Interview/Lecture, “Beyond Sacrifice: Rethinking Religion and Violence in America, or How a Pax Americana Might Figure in a Coming Religious Peace,” Rumi Forum Luncheon, Rumi Forum, Washington, DC, 30 May 2011, at http://www.rumiforum.org/luncheons/beyond-sacrifice-rethinking-religion-and-violence- in-america-or-how-a-pax-americana-might-figure-in-a-coming-religious-peace.html “Extending Sacred Space: Beyond Pledge, Plate and Philanthropy,” Keynote Lecture, 11
  • 12. St. Paul Lutheran Church Visiting Theologian, Glenside, PA, June 13, 2011. Invited Lecture: “In Guns We Trust,” Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. Conference, Overcoming our Origins: Rene Girard, Evolution, and Religion, May 28, 2011. “The Rapture Gig,” Jazz Vespers and Dinner, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Glenside, PA, May 21, 2011. “Consider the Dandelions,” Sermon, Divinity Lutheran Church, Parma Heights, OH, May 1, 2011. “Sex and Salvation: A Workshop,” Divinity Lutheran Church, Parma Heights, OH, April 29-30, 2011. “Extending Sacred Space: Beyond Pledge, Plate and Philanthropy to Social Businesses,” SEPA Diakonia Workshop, Paoli, PA, April 16, 2011. Radio Interview: “Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence,” ABC Sunday Nights with John Cleary, April 12, 2011, at http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s3194641.htm “Can Media Be Moral?” Unisel: Universitas Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 4, 2011. “Malaysia’s Minarets or Designs on Dominion (in Kuala Lumpur),” April 9, 2011, at http://ltsp.edu/malaysias-minarets-or-designs-dominion “Surprised by Heaven in Sydney,” April 6, 2011, at http://ltsp.edu/surprised-heaven-sydney “Melbourne’s Mojo,” April 5, 2011, at http://ltsp.edu/melbournes-mojo “Media and Values,” Sydney Meyer Asia Center, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia, April 2, 2011. “Joy in Jakarta,” April 2, 2011, at http://ltsp.edu/joy-jakarta “Sacred Space in the Gülen Movement,” Jakarta Negeri University, Jakarta, Indonesia, March 31, 2011. “Singapore, Sweat, and Shopping Malls,” March 31, 2011, at http://ltsp.edu/singapore-sweat-and-shopping-malls “Can Media Be Moral? Religion, Violence and Values in Contemporary Media,” Singapore Management University, Singapore, March 29, 2011 “From Tomb to Mountaintop to Mosque,” March 28, 2011 at http://ltsp.edu/tomb-mountaintop-mosque “Islam and Democracy,” March 26, 2011 at http://ltsp.edu/islam-and-democracy Invited Lecture: “Sacred Space in the Gülen Movement,” Tirana University, Tirana, Albania, March 25, 2011. Invited Lecture Series, “Jesus at/in the Movies,” St. John’s Episcopal Church, Lower Merion, PA, 3/16-30, 2011. “A Gnostic Temptation in Orthodox/Catholic/Evangelical American Guise: Jesus in The Last Temptation of the Christ, The Media Theater, Media, PA, March 12, 2011. Invited Lecture Series, “Death Denial, Memorials and Memoirs in America,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, February 6-20, 2011. Invited Lecture Series, “Sacred Places in America,” St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Chester Springs, PA, January 19-Feb 2, 2011. Invited Lecture, “From Mecca to the Mall of America, with a Stop at the ‘Ground Zero Mosque: Sacred Space in the United States,” Moravian Academy, January 13, 2011. Invited Lecture, “American Sacred Space: Malls, Memorials, and a Mosque?” University Lutheran Church, Cambridge, MA, January 9, 2011. Respondent, “Alternatives to What? Panel on “New Religious Movements,” American 12
  • 13. Historical Association, Boston, MA, January 6, 2011 “War, Peace, and Violence in American Christianity,” in Christianities in America, ed. Catherine A. Brekus (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2010). 2010 "Sacred Space in the Hizmet Movement and the Thought of M. Fethullah Gülen," at The University of Chicago Divinity School, Conference on The Gülen Movement, November 12, 2010. “Nature as Sacred Space in the Hizmet Movement and the Thought of M. Fethullah Gülen,” at Temple University, Conference on Hizmet Movement and Eco-Justice, November 8. Special Session, Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence, The Colloquium on Violence and Religion, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, October 30, 2010. Invited Lectures, “Film, Religion, and Peacebuilding,” 4 Week Series, October 24-November 21, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. Invited Lectures, "Possessed by Our Possessions" and "The Economics of Jesus," St. Martin-of- the-Fields Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA, October 10 and 17, 2010. Invited Lectures, "Sacred Space? Shopping Malls, Disney World, and the Green Grass of Home," 3-Week Series, Grace Lutheran Church, Royersford, PA, September 19- October 3, 2010. Sermon, "Finding True Freedom that Can't Be Bought," Grace Lutheran Church, Royersford, PA, September 19, 2010. "The Art of Living Together," Iftar Dinner Keynote Speech, Lancaster, PA, Red Rose Foundation, September 4, 2010. Invited Lecture, "Pluralism in American Religious History," Philadelphia Visitors Forum, Official State Department Visit from Republic of Tatarstan, Philadelphia, PA, June 16, 2010. "Blessed Brutalities: The Religious Origins of American Violence," 5 Part DVD Series for Congregational Study. Produced by preachingpeace.org, 2010. "Religion and Violence in American History," televised interview regarding Empire of Sacrifice on Global Faith and Freedom (Hope Channel, TV). Silver Spring, MD, May 24, 2010. "The Core of Lutheran CORE," commentary in "Religion in American History," May 16, 2010, online at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2010/05/core-of-lutheran-core.html "The Core of Lutheran CORE: American Civil Religion and White Male Backlash," in Journal of Lutheran Ethics, May 2010. Online at: http://www.elca.org/What-We-Believe/Social-Issues/Journal-of-Lutheran- Ethics/Issues/May-2010/The-Core-of-Lutheran-CORE-American-Civil-Religion-and- White-Male-Backlash.aspx. Reprinted in dozens of news outlets/blogs. "Fragments of Empire: Lessons for Americans in Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence," in Public Theology, May 10, 2010. Online at http://www.pubtheo.com/page.asp?pid=1548 "The Paradox of Religion and Violence, and Why Religions are Not Shit: An Interview with Jon Pahl," in "Religion in American History," May 5, 2010, online at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2010/05/core-of-lutheran-core.html William Lazareth Lecture, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI: "Four American Crises, Two Tea Parties: The Legacies of William Allen (1701-1780), William Lazareth (1928-2008), and 13
  • 14. The Future of Lutheran Higher Education," April 14, 2010. Online at: http://www.carthage.edu/lazarethlectures/jon-pahl/ "Malls R Us," (Film Viewing and Discussion), Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Bryn Mawr, PA, March 18, 2010. "Faith and Religion," in A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family, Vol. 6. Ed. Joseph M. Hawes and N. Ray Hiner (NY/Oxford: Berg, 2010): 161-178. Invited Lecture, "What is Sacred Space? And Why Our Answer Matters," St. John's Lutheran Church, Phoenixville, PA, March 6, 2010. Theologian in Residence, "Sex and Salvation," St. Stephen Lutheran Church, Williamsburg, VA, February 12-13, 2010 Invited Retreat Leader, "Sacred Spaces," Camp Calumet, Lake Osippee, NH, January 27-28, 2010 Invited Lecture, "Two Metaphors and Four Trends from Religious History, for Public Leadership," Lutheran World Relief Board of Directors Meeting, Baltimore, Md, January 26, 2010. Invited Lecture, "Does Peace Stand a Chance? The Hizmet Movement and Religious Peacebuilding," Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, TX, January 23, 2010 Invited Lecture, "'The Violence Iceberg' and 'A Coming Religious Peace,'" Dialog of Civilizations 2010, Gülen Institute/The University of Houston, January 22, 2010 Invited Lecture Series, "Sex and Salvation," Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, January 10 - February 7, 2010. "Homicide and American Religions," in Religion, Death and Dying: An Anthology, Vol. 2, Special Issues, ed. Lucy Bregman (Praeger, 2010): 135-159. 2009 Guest Preacher, "The Refiner's Fire," Messiah Lutheran Church, Parlin, NJ, December 6, 2009 "A Muted Call for Sacrifice. A Clear Call for Responsibility," Religion in American History, December 5, 2009, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/12/muted-call-for-sacrifice.html "Where was God in the Gay Holocaust?" panel presentation with Exhibit from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, William Way Community Center, Philadelphia, PA, November 16, 2009. Invited Keynote Speaker, ""Transforming Global Education: The Gülen Movement and a Coming Religious Peace," University of Kentucky Dialogue Dinner, Lexington, KY, November 9, 2009. Invited Lecture, "A Coming Religious Peace," St. John's Lutheran Church, Summit, NJ, November 15, 2009 Discussant, Film Viewing, "Pray the Devil Back to Hell," [Liberian women as peacebuilders], American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Montreal, CA, November 8, 2009 Presider, "Religions and Peacemaking: Case Studies," American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Montreal, CA, November 7, 2009 Presider, Discussant--Film Viewing, "Malls R Us," American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, Montreal, CA, November 6, 2009 Invited Lecture, " Of Autumn Leaves: Or, Reverence for Life with an Attitude of Gratitude: Prospects for Public Theology in a New Era of Responsibility," LTSP Quodlibet Lecture, Philadelphia, PA, November 3, 2009 14
  • 15. Guest Preacher, "Reformation Sunday: Of Autumn Leaves"(Revelation 22), Friedens Evangelical Lutheran Church, Oley, PA, October 25, 2009 "In Guns We Trust," Religion in American History, October 11, 2009, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-guns-we-trust.html Invited Keynote Speaker, ""Transforming Global Education: The Gülen Movement and a Coming Religious Peace," Drew University Friendship Dinner, Drew University, Madison, NJ, October 8, 2009. Invited Lecture, "Malls R Us," or Why Shopping Malls are Sites of Religious Violence," Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics, October 5, 2009 Invited Lecture Series, "Sacrifice and Cinema," Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, September 20-October 11, 2009. Invited Lecture, "Transforming Global Education: The Gülen Movement and a Coming Religious Peace," Philadelphia Dialogue Forum Iftar Dinner, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, September 17, 2009. "Finding Flow [Mark 8:27-38]," Distinguished Preacher Series, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Baltimore, MD, September 13, 2009 Workshop Presenter, "Who are the Lutherans?" Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries, Annual Meeting, Grantville, PA, July 14, 2009. Respondent, "Youth, Religion, and American History," Panel Discussion, The Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, National Meeting, The University of California, Berkeley, July 12, 2009. Keynote Speaker, "The Challenge for Youth," International Dialogue Dinner, Kampala, Uganda, June 21, 2009. "Sacrifice," in The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film, ed. John Lyden (London and NY: Routledge, 2009): 465-481.. Workshop Presenter, "The Desire to Acquire: Why Shopping Malls are Sites of Religious Violence," New England Synod Assembly, ELCA, Sturbridge, MA, May 18, 2009. Workshop Presenter, "Who are the Lutherans?" Lutheran Services in America, National Meeting, Washington, DC, April 30, 2009. Keynote Presenter, Malls 'R' Us?, Annual Vaishnava-Christian Dialogue, Washington, DC, April 17-18, 2009. "Sacrifice in American Cinema," Oxford University Colloquium, Theology Department, Oxford England, April 4, 2009. Keynote Speaker, "(Killing/Dying) or Living for a Cause: Youth, Violence, and Dialogue," At "Interreligious Friendship Dinner," sponsored by Turkish Cultural Center of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 22, 2009. "Q and A about Malls R Us," Audience Discussion after U.S. Premiere, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, March 21, 2009. "The Religious Violence of 'Defending' Marriage," in Sightings, March 12, 2009, online at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/sightings/archive_2009/0312.shtml "Jammin' with Jeremiah Wright," in Religion in American History, March 12, 2009, online at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/03/jon-pahl-jams-with-jeremiah-wright.html "Fierce Grace," Sermon at LTSP Chapel, February 23, 2009. "The Inaugural Speech: Religion's Role in the New Era of Responsibility," in Religion in American History, January 20, 2009, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2009/01/inaugural-speech-religions-role-in-new.html 15
  • 16. Invited Lecture Series, "Youth Ministry in Modern America," Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, January 18-February 15, 2009. Respondent, "Christianity and Homosexuality in America, 1950-the present," American Society Of Church History, Annual Meeting, New York City, January 4, 2009. 2008 "Dying for a Cause: Youth, Violence, and the Gűlen Movement--Beyond Dialogue and Tolerance," at "Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: New Perspectives on the Gulen Movement," Georgetown University, November 14-15, 2008, at http://www.gulenconference.us/index.php "Why Religious Freedom Was (Is) Necessary: Religious Violence in Early America--the Case of Mary Dyer," Friends Historical Association, Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, PA, November 8, 2008. Respondent, "Taking the Testimony of Genocide: The Work of Fr. Patrick Desbois," AAR Annual Meeting, Special Session, Sunday, November 2, 2008. Presider, "Pluralism and Peacemaking," AAR Annual Meeting, Saturday, November 1, 2008. "A Century of Harvests," Preacher at Centennial Observation, Bethany Lutheran Church, Cromwell, CT, October 26, 2008 Moderator and Commentator, "Ultimate Sacrifices: Religion, Violence, and Nation in America," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, October 19, 2008. Moderator, "Lutherans, Gender, and American History," Lutheran Historical Conference Bi- Annual Meeting, Wagner College, New York, NY, October 13, 2008. Invited Lecture, "Faith and Presidential Politics, the 2004 Campaign with an Eye on 2008," Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading, PA, October 12, 2008; November 9, 2009. Keynote Speaker, "Lutherans, Paradoxes, and Actual Places of Grace," Allegheny Synod ELCA Bishop's Convocation, September 29-October 1, 2008, Ligonier, PA. "Rethinking 'Violence,' and Rethinking 'Religion,' in Light of Virginia Tech Shootings and the History of Childhood and Youth," in Newsletter of the Society for Childhood and Youth, #12, Summer 2008, at http://www.history.vt.edu/Jones/SHCY/Newsletter12/Pahl.html. Moderator, Session on "Foundations," Anti-Popery: The Transatlantic Experience, c. 1530-1850, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, September 19, 2008. Guest Preacher, "Living Rocks," St. Mark Lutheran Church, Clifton Heights, PA, August 24, 2008. Guest Preacher, "Walking on Water," Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Lessor, Wisconsin, August 10, 2008. Invited Lecture Series: "Religious Freedom as Antidote to Religious Violence," Lutherhostel Life-long Learning Keynote Lectures, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, June 15-18. Invited Lecture, "The Dignity of Difference (Interfaith Dialogue)," Women of the ELCA, Montgomery County Chapter, Christ Lutheran Church, Kulpsville, PA, April 20, 2008. Participant, "Vaishnava-Christian Dialogue: 'Why Dialogue?' Washington DC, April 18-19, 2008. "Brotherhood and Sisterhood in World Religions," 3 Week Lecture Series, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, April 6- 20, 2008. 16
  • 17. Invited Lecture, "Shopping Malls, Seminaries, and Holy Scripture," New England Synod ELCA Assembly Event, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Sturbridge, MA, April 12, 2008 Moderator, "Tough Texts," Jewish-Christian-Muslim Reflections on "Identity and the Other," "Gender and Sexuality," and "War and Peace," 3 Week Series, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, March 30-April 13, 2008 "Distinct Histories, Shared Ethic, Common Future," Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue, Women of the ELCA, St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Devon, PA, March 31, 2008. "What is a Prophet?"Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue, Temple University Muslim Students Association, March 25, 2008. "The Lynching of Jeremiah Wright," in"Religion in American History," 3/20/2008, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2008/03/jon-pahl-on-jeremiah-wright.html, Invited Lectures, "Prayer and Sacred Space," 2 week series, Trinity Episcopal Church, Swarthmore, PA, February 17-24, 2008. "Tru-Envy,"[On Lawncare], in Criterion: A Publication of the University of Chicago Divinity School, January 2008: 19-20. "A Celebration of Brotherhood and Sisterhood," Dialogue Forum Ashura Day Event, Philadelphia, PA, February 23, 2008. "The Violence Iceberg and the Coming Religious Peace," Religion and Anti-Violence Summit, Sponsored by Congressman Joe Sestak, Drexel Hill, PA, February 20, 2008. Invited Lecture, "Youth, Religion, and the State in Modernity," at Amherst College, Journal of History of Childhood and Youth Inaugural Lectures, February 9, 2008. Invited Lectures, "Brotherhood and Sisterhood in the History of Christianity," at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1/14/2008 - 2/3/2008. 2007 "Holy War, Just War, and the Coming Religious Peace," St. Michael Lutheran Church, Kennett Square, PA, December 2, 2007. Invited Lecture, "Violence, Rapture, and Youth Rituals," Interact Theater Company Friday Forum, Philadelphia, PA, November 30, 2007. "Rev. Stevie's Vision [on Stevie Wonder]," in Religion in American History, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2007/11/rev-stevies-vision-and-were-not-talking.html "Monster Lazarus[Luke 16:19-31]," Guest Preacher, Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Delaware Conference Evening Worship, November 11, 2007. "God's Joke [Luke 18:9-14]," Guest Preacher, Princeton University Chapel, October 28, 2007. "Kathedralen des Konsums: Religiösen Symbolik in Enkaufszentren," in Der Überblick 43(September 2007): 9-11. Kuehner Lecture Series, “Civil Religion, Cultural Religion, and the Reformed Episcopal Churches,” at St. Paul’s Reformed Episcopal Church, Oreland PA, December 3, 2007. Invited Lecture: “Are the Fundamentalists Winning?” 3-week series, St. David’s Episcopal Church, St. David’s PA, October 23-November 6 Invited Lecture, “The Desire to Acquire: Shopping Malls and American Sacred Space,” St. Peter’s Catholic Church Distinguished Lectureship, Cleveland, OH Invited Lecture, “Places of Grace,” 4 week series, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, PA, September 30-October 21 Invited Lecture, “The Desire to Acquire: Shopping Malls as Sites of Religious 17
  • 18. Violence,” The College of New Jersey, October 10 Knutson Lectureship, Pacific Lutheran University, “The Desire to Acquire: Shopping Malls, Religious Violence, and Actual Places of Grace,” September 17, 2007 "An Americanist in Turkey, III: Turkish Family Values," in Religion in American History, August 28, 2007, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2007/08/turkish-family-values.html “An Americanist in Turkey, II: Love Jihad?” in Religion in American History, Thursday, August 23, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2007/08/love-jihad.html “An Americanist in Turkey, I: Competing Fundamentalisms,” in Religion in American History, August 7, at http://usreligion.blogspot.com/search?q=competing+fundamentalisms Invited Lecture Series, “Religion and Violence in America: From Puritan Boston to Modern Baghdad,” Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, 4 week series, 6/3-6/24, 2007. “The Desire to Acquire: Or, Why Shopping Malls are Sites of Religious Violence,” in The Marty Center Web-Forum, The University of Chicago Divinity School, May, 2007 at http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/webforum/archive.shtml Review of A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes, ed. Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2004), in Church History 76(September 2007): 614-15. Presentation, “Spectacles of Sacrifice: The Cinema of Adolescent Abjection, 1936-1996,” at Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, Linköping, Sweden, June 28, 2007 Invited Lecture, “Malls, Markets, and Lutheran Spirituality,” at Women of the ELCA, Northeast PA Chapter, Tannersville, PA, June 23, 2007. Invited Lecture, “Women in American Lutheran History,” at Women of the ELCA, Montgomery County Chapter, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Melrose Park, PA, April 23, 2007. Invited Lecture, “Earth-Gift-Spirituality,” Earth-Day Celebration, Swarthmore Sierra Club, Swarthmore Fun-Fair, Swarthmore, PA, April 22, 2007. Invited Lecture, “Beyond the Bullet: Youth, Faith, and Violence in America,” at Atonement Lutheran Church, Wyomissing, PA, March 18, 2007 Invited Lecture, “Does God Wear Clothes?” St. John’s Lutheran Church, Summit, NJ, March 11, 2007. “Christians and Muslims: Can We Find Common Ground?,” Interfaith Dialogue, Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA, March 4, 2007. “Are the Fundamentalists Winning?,” 3 week lecture series, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania, January 28-Feb 11, 2007. “Nationalist Religious Broadcasting: The Case of the 2004 U.S. Presidential Nominating Conventions,” in Political Theology 8(January, 2007): 33-61. “Founding an Empire of Sacrifice: Innocent Domination and the Quaker Martyrs Of Boston, 1659-1661,” in Belief and Bloodshed: Religion and Violence across Time And Tradition, ed. James K. Wellman, Jr (Lanham, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007): 97-113. 2006 Guest Preacher/Teacher, “Seeing God,” at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Manasquan, NJ, 12/2-3, 2006. “America’s Sister [Helen Prejean],” in Journal of Lutheran Ethics (December 2006), at http://www.elca.org/jle/article.asp?k=679 Column, “Ted Haggard’s Sin,” in Sightings, November 30, 2006, at 18
  • 19. http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2006/1130.shtml Chair, “Grassroots Peacebuilding: Case Studies from Around the Globe,” National Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Washington, DC, November 20, 2006. Column: “Muslims Teach Lesson on Sacrifice,” in Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2006, p. B2, at http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/opinion/local2/region/15783956.htm Guest Preacher, “St. Paul’s Lutheran Church 250th Anniversary Celebration,” Hamburg, PA, October 29, 2006. Forthcoming, Review of Sharon D. Welch, After Empire: The Art and Ethos of Enduring Peace, Currents in Theology and Mission (Winter, 2006) Invited Lecture Series, “Are the Fundamentalists Winning?” at St. Martin-of-the-Fields Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA, October 1, 8, 15, 2006. Invited Lecture, “The Heart of Diakon: Why Lutherans Started Social Ministry Organizations,” Diakon Board of Directors Meeting, Baltimore, MD, August 18, 2006. Conference Presentation, “The Coming Religious Peace: A Girardian Perspective on the History of Religions in the Twentieth-Century,” at The Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Ottawa, CA, June 1, 2006 Review of Matthias Beier, A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann, in Interpretation 60(2) April, 2006: 226-7 DVD Video, “What’s Behind Left Behind?” Produced by John Kahler for Lutheran Bible Ministries, Summer 2006. Invited Lecture, “Young Adult Ministry,” ELCA Council of Executives, Chicago, Illinois, March 21, 2006. Review of Michael Lerner, The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right, in Crosscurrents, 56(1) Spring, 2006: 133-137. Preaching/lecturing, “The True Vine,” Our Savior Lutheran Church, Manhasset, NY (Long Island), May 14, 2006 Preaching/lecturing, “The Coming Peace,” Zion Lutheran Church, Oldwick, NJ, May 7, 2006. Review of Kathryn M. Galchutt, The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968: Lutherans and Race in the Civil Rights Era, in Journal of Religion 86(October, 2006): 686-88. Preaching/lecturing, “The Color of Grace,” Faith Lutheran Church, Pennsauken, NJ, April 2, 2006 Review of Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits, Changing Slowly, ed. Andrew Walsh and Mark Silk. Religion by Region Series, in Lutheran Quarterly, Summer, 2006: 221-223. Preaching/lecturing, “One Body,” Trinity Lutheran Church, Lehighton, PA, March 26, 2006 Preaching/lecturing, “The Light of the World,” Immanuel Lutheran Church, Old Saybrook, CT, March 5, 2006 2005 “The Most Acceptable Prejudice [against children and youth; on pedophilia],” in Sightings, November 10, 2005, at http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2005/1110.shtml Invited Lecture, “The Desire to Acquire, or, Why Malls are Sites of Religious Violence,” Purdue University, Department of Sociology/Anthropology; Program in 19
  • 20. American Studies, November 7, 2005. Invited Workshops, “Our Stories, God’s Story, and Places of Grace,” Indianapolis Center for Congregations, Consultation on “Sacred Space,” November 5-6, 2005 Invited Lecture “Have You Been Left Behind (By Popular Culture?),” Workshop for Parish Pastors sponsored by Diakon Social Services, Topton, PA, October 19, 2005. “Theological Education in a Pluralist Context,” International Visitors Council of Philadelphia, Visit by Pakistani Religious Leaders, October 6, 2005. “Why Now? Lutherans Join the Mainline Debate on Homosexuality,” in Journal of Lutheran Ethics, August, 2005, at http://www.elca.org/scriptlib/dcs/jle/article.asp? aid=591 “Jesus and The Buddha at Live 8,” in Sightings, July 14, 2005, at http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2005/0714.shtml “God and Dogs,” in Earth Letter (Summer, 2005): 6-7, 13. "Coming out of the Church: The Coming of Age of a Lesbian Catholic Schoolgirl, 1931-1949,” at The Society for the History of Children and Youth, Biannual Meeting, Marquette University, August 7, 2005 Invited Lecture, "The Desire to Acquire: Imaging God at a Shopping Mall," The Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Annual Meeting, Koblenz, Germany, July 7, 2005. Invited Lecture, "Congregations, Nonviolence, and Peacemaking," Temple Lutheran Church, Pennsauken, NJ, April 24, 2005 Invited Lecture, "Youth, Faith, and Violence," at Christ Lutheran Church, Bridgeton, NJ, April 10, 2005 Invited Lecture, "Consider the Lilies: Sacred Space in America," at The Indianapolis Center for Congregations, April 7, 2005 Invited Lecture, "Muslims, Christians, Theological Education and Civil Society," International Visitors Council of Philadelphia, Uzbekistan-U.S. Dialogue Program, March 9, 2005. "The Slaveholding Religion: Rituals of Bodily Discipline, Inversion, and Other Strategies in African-American Religions from Jarena Lee to Spike Lee," at Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, American Academy of Religion, March 4, 2005 Invited Lecture, "Youth, Faith, and Violence," at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Collingdale, NJ, February 21, 2005. Invited Lecture, "Religion, Terrorism, and Peacemaking," at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Clifton Heights, PA, February 13, 2005. Review of Mark Oppenheimer, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture (Yale, 2003), in Lutheran Quarterly (Winter, 2005): 492-4. Invited Lecture, "Lutherans and Sacred Places," at Zion Lutheran Church, Long Valley, NJ, February 5-6, 2005 Invited Lecture Series, "Sacred Places," St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor, Pennsylvania, January 16-30, 2005 Invited Lecture, "Dissing Disney: Corporate Control and Cities of God," at National Gathering, Lutheran Student Movement, Houston, Texas, January 1. 2004 "Converging Civilizations," in Sightings, December 2, 2004, at http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2004/1202.shtml Invited Lecture, "Nationalist Religious Broadcasting: The Case of the 2004 U.S. Presidential 20
  • 21. Nominating Conventions," Ankara, Turkey, November 8, 2004. "Motivating a Movement," in Sightings, 10/21/04, online at http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2004/1021.shtml "Driving While Faculty: The Religion of Innocent Domination in America," in CrossCurrents 54 (Summer 2004): 82-96. Online at http://www.crosscurrents.org/Pahl0204.htm Invited Lecture, “Theological Education and the Coming Religious Peace,” at Opening Convocation, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, September 7, 2004. “Why Now? Some Modest Historical Perspective on a Queer Obsession”(Why people of faith in America are obsessed with issues related to gays and lesbians), Witherspoon Society (Presbyterian Peace Fellowship) web page, Winter 2004. Review of Walter Wink, Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way (Philadelphia: Fortress, 2003), in Currents in Theology and Mission, October 2004: 292 Invited Lecture, “Postmodern Sacred Places,” at ELCA Global Mission Event, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 30, 2004. “Trees and Transcendence,” in Parish Practice Notebook (Summer, 2004): 1-14. Invited Lecture, “Lutherans and American Historical Trends, “ Lutherhostel, June 21-23, 2004, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Invited Lecture, “Religion, Nation, and Terrorism,” Northeastern Pennsylvania Ministerial Association, Topton, PA, June 18, 2004. Invited Lecture, “Malls, Liturgy, and American Culture,” Sweden/US Interchange, at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, May 19, 2004 Invited Lecture, “An Empire of Sacrifice: Capital Punishment in America from Mary Dyer to Dead Man Walking,” The University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 12, 2004 Invited Lecture, “Consider the Lilies: Sacred Space in a Consumerist Culture,” The Center for Congregations, Indianapolis, IN, May 6, 2004 Invited Lecture, “What’s Behind Left Behind? The Problem of Bible Abuse in America,” Perth -Amboy, NJ, May 1, 2004 “Tru-Envy? The Suburban Lawn and Consumer Desire” in Sightings, April 13, 2004, at http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2004/0413.shtml Invited lecture series, “Does God Wear Clothes?” Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA, March 2004. Invited Lecture, “Shopping Malls, Disney World, and the American Quest for Sacred Space,” Lehigh University American Studies Program, Feb 18, 2004 Invited Lecture, “The Coming Religious Peace,” at Central Baptist Church, Wayne, PA, January 18, 2004. 2003 “Of Specks and Logs: Nationalist Bias in Recent Analyses of ‘Religion’ and ‘Violence,’” at National Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, Georgia, November 23, 2003. “Spectacles of Sacrifice in a Theater of Terror: The Cinema of Adolescent Abjection in America, 1936-1996,” at National Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, Georgia, November 21, 2003. “Quaker Martyrs in Boston, 1659-61: An Early Episode of Capital Punishment in America,” Lecture at Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church, 11/2/03. “Mickey-Love at the Magic Kingdom,” in Journal of Lutheran Ethics (October, 2003): http://www.elca.org/scriptlib/dcs/jle/article.asp?aid=138 “Rites and Wrongs of Passage,” Catechumen Retreat, Crossroads Outdoor Ministry, New Jersey Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church/Episcopal Diocese of Newark, October 11-12, 21
  • 22. 2003. “Violence from Religious Groups,” in International Handbook of Violence Research, ed. John Hagan and Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Kluwer Academic, Winter 2003). “Religious Revivals,” in The Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society, ed. Paula Fass. 3 vols. (NY: Macmillan, October, 2003) II: 710-11. . “Youth Ministries,” in The Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society, ed. Paula Fass. 3 vols. (NY: Macmillan, October, 2003). III: 917-20. “Pilgrimage to the Mall of America,” in Word & World 23(Summer 2003): 263-271. “Freedom’s Rise: The Constitution Center in Philadelphia,” in Sightings, September 11, 2003, at http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2003/0911.shtml “Shopping Malls,” in Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expressions, ed. Gary Laderman and Luis León (NY: ABC-Clio, 2003), Vol. 2: 580-2. “Home, Suburban,” in Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expressions, ed. Gary Laderman and Luis León (NY: ABC-Clio, 2003), Vol. 2: 586-8. “Spectacles of Sacrifice in a Theater of Terror: The Cinema of Adolescence and Youth Violence in America,” at Cross Currents Research Colloquium/Coolidge Fellows Program, Columbia University/Union Theological Seminary, 7/12/03. Quoted in Kristen Campbell, “Making Worship Space Relevant—and Message Meaningful—to Children,” in Religious News Service, at http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/1207378.html “Saying No, Saying Yes: The State, Christian Youth Ministries, and the Adolescent Body in America, 1930-1999,” at National Meeting, Society for the History of Children and Youth, June 27, 2003, Baltimore, MD “The Plowshares Survey, Violence, and Congregations in the U.S.,” presentation at National Health Ministries Association Meeting, June 19, 2003, Valley Forge, PA, with Lisa A. Pahl, R.N.. Quoted in Kristin Holmes, “Scholars Debate ‘Open Theism,’” in Worldwide Religious News, at http://www.wwrn.org/parse.php?idd=7503 “Building Bridges: Violence, Faith, and September 11 in Perspective,” workshop at St. John’s Lutheran Church, East Windsor, NJ, March 30, 2003. “Quaker Constancy,” in Sightings, March 6, 2003, at http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2003/0306.shtml “Re-creating America: Youth Ministry and Social Change, 1930-1999,” in The Encyclopedia of Informal Education, at http://www.infed.org/christianyouthwork/recreating_america.htm “Sacred Places,” Two-Week Adult Forum Series, Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA, March-April, 2003 “Eminem: Hip-hop Hype,” Sightings, January 16, 2003. Available at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2003/0116.html 2002 “Jimmy Carter’s Civil Christianity,” Sightings, November 14, 2002. Available at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2002/1114.html “A Reply to Philip Jenkins, “The Next Christianity,” Sightings, September 27, 2002. Available at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2002/0927.html “This Land is Whose Land?,” First Friday Guest Lectureship, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, September 13, 2002. “Weak Religions, Strong Religions, and Violence,” Trinity Lutheran Church, Lansdale, PA, Guest Speaker Series, May 19, 2002. 22
  • 23. “Violence, Justice, and the ELCA Social Statements,” Congregational Study Guide, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, May, 2002. Distributed to churches throughout the Northeast. “Violence and Healthcare,” with Lisa A. Pahl. Keynote address at Southeast Pennsylvania Parish Nurse Association Meeting, March 16, 2002. “Go Valpo! Go … Crusaders?” in Christian Science Monitor, Monday, March 11, 2002, p. 9, at http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0311/p09s02-coop.html “Forum: Teaching the Introductory Course in American Religion,” in Religion and American Culture 12(Winter 2002): 1-30. “Religion and Violence in America,” Five-Week Series, Reformation Lutheran Church, Media PA, Feb-March, 2002 2001 “Saved by Zero?” in Sightings, December 20, 2001. Available at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2001/sightings-122001.html “The Scandal of the Theological Mind: On the Disciplinary Captivity of Theological Schools,” in Theological Education 37 (2001): v-viii. “Weak Religion, Strong Religion, and Violence: Christianity, Islam, and September 11 in Perspective,” at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, December 18, 2001. “Campground and Kinship Cultures: White Protestant and African American Youth Ministry, 1930-1999,” in American Studies Journal 47(Summer 2001): 51-60 “God’s Clothing,” Two-week Lectureship, Wagner College, “Theological Education with Youth,” Summer Theological Academy, July, 2001 “Beyond the Bullet: Youth, Faith, and Violence in America,” at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Skippack, PA, June 10, 2001 “Recreating Church and Culture: Lutheran Youth, 1890-1930,” at The Lutheran Historical Society Annual Meeting, April 28, 2001, Harrisburg, PA. “Caring for Creation: The ELCA’s Social Statement on the Environment,” at Reformation Lutheran Church, Media, PA, April 22, 2001. “No ‘Reefer Madness’ Here: Only the ‘Academic Waking State,’” review of Robert C. Fuller, Stairways to Heaven: Drugs in American Religious History," H-Net Reviews, March, 2001. URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11564985221875. “Beyond the Bullet,” address to Southeast Pennsylvania “Fellowship of Lutheran Youth” Gathering, Trevose, Pa, February, 2001. 2000 “God’s Clothing: The Limits of Post-Modernity and Living Waters--God as Source, (Dis)Solution, and Delight,” in Questiones Liturgigue--Studies in Liturgy 81(Winter, 2000): 1- 24. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Press. “‘That Vexing Question of Dancing’: Youth, Sex, and Rites of Passage in American Religious History, 1930-1999,” at Midwest American Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL, April 17, 2000. “Recreating America: Youth Ministry in the United States, 1930-1999,” at American Society of Church History, Chicago, IL, January 6, 2000. 1988-1999 (selected) Not listed are many reviews, commentaries, or book notes in publications such as The Christian Century, Church History, Religious Studies Review, and others. “Spectacles of Sacrifice: The Cinema of Adolescence and Youth Violence in American Culture,” in Visible Violence: Sichtbare und verschleierte Gewalt im Film (Munster: Lit Verlag, 1998): 169-186. 23
  • 24. “Sport, Religion, and Violence,” in The Cresset 58(Easter, 1998):188-193. Review of Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior, by Phil Jackson, and God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America, by Robert J. Higgs, in The Cresset 57 (Easter, 1997): 29-30 “Lutheranism in the 1920's: How History Changes when Viewed through the Eyes of Youth,” in Lutheran Historical Conference Reports, 49(1996): 26-45. “Accommodation to Violence: The Rise and Demise of the Walther League,” in Currents in Theology and Mission 23(October, 1996): 336-246. “Generational Violence: The Sacrifice of Youth in Modern America,” at The Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Annual Meeting, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, June 29, 1996 Review of American Sacred Space, ed. David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal, in The Christian Century 114(January 22, 1997): 84-5. “A National Shrine to Scapegoating?: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC,” in Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 2(Fall, 1995): 165-188. “Walther League Messenger,” in Popular Religious Magazines of the United States. Ed. P Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995): 165-188. “Letter from Washington: Sacrifice and Violence,” in The Cresset 57(May 1994): 29-30. “Jonathan Edwards and the Aristocracy of Grace,” in Fides et Historia 25(Winter/Spring, 1993): 62-73. “The Walther League and the Education of Lutherans,” in Lutheran Education 128(March/April 1993): 223-228 “The Antinomian Age in America,” in The Cresset 52(September, 1989): 5-10 “Billy Sunday,” in Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Popular Religion. Ed. Charles H. Lippy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989): 410-417. “Sinclair Lewis,” in Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Popular Religion. Ed. Charles H. Lippy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989): 241-247 “Public Religion,” weekly newspaper column, in Suburban Life, west suburban Chicago daily, 9/1/86-8/1/88.. 24
  • 25. REFERENCES Rev. Dr. Martin J. Lohrmann Dr. James K. Wellman, Jr. Assistant Professor of Lutheran Confessions Professor, Chair, Comparative And Heritage Religion Program, Box 353650 Wartburg Theological Seminary The University of Washington Dubuque, IA 52003 Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: 215-510-9478 Phone: (206)-543-0339 e-mail: martinlohrmann@hotmail.com e-mail: jwellman@u.washington.edu Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible Brite Divinity School Fort Worth, TX 76109 Phone: 817-257-7575 e-mail: wil.gafney@tcu.edu 4/19/2016 25