Articles, Sermons, and Book Reviews

New and Improved: Saturday, July 04, 2009 at 06:05:42 PM

Book Review of A Good Camp: Gold Mines of Julian and the Cuyamacas by Leland Fetzer:

This book review is scheduled to be published The Journal of San Diego History.

There Are No Strangers Here:

This Maundy Thursday meditation, based on John 13:1-17, 31b-35, was delivered at Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church, April 9, 2009.  "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.  Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:34-35.

 

Book Review of Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home by Susan Moore:

This book review is published in the The Historian Volume 71, Number 2 (Summer 2009).

Out of Balance:

Cavern tours, a Joan Baez concert, the Confession of 1967, and God's grace are connected in this sermon delivered at the First Presbyterian Church, Rolla, Missouri on March 22, 2009.

 

Turning Feasts into Mourning:

In this sermon I expound on Amos 8:1-12.  It was preached at Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church in Louisville, KY on July 22, 2007.  "Disturbing as it is, we could simply dismiss this scripture as irrelevant to us.  We could, like some of our conservative sisters and brothers in Christ, read these words literally.  Using bumper-sticker theology – “The Bible says it; I believe it; that settles it!” – we could declare this scripture irrelevant to us.  We are not farmers using the Sabbath to contemplate fraudulent grain sales, so we can safely put Amos back on the shelf and turn to more pleasant scriptures. . . ."

A Persistent Call:

A sermon expounding  on 1 Kings 19:1-8 and preached at Patteson Memorial Presbyterian Church, Patteson, KY, June 24, 2007.

Home, The New Classroom: Reflections of an Online Instructor:

In this paper I reflect on the positive and negative factors of online education for students and faculty.  I presented this paper at The Community College Humanities Association, Southern Division Conference in Asheville, North Carolina (October 29-31, 2006).

Labor Unions and Communities of Faith:

I examine the official stand of major faith groups on the issues of organized labor and labor strikes.  This paper was published in PRO News, a state-wide publication of the California Part Time Faculty Association (Spring 2005).

Book Review of An American Family: The Kennans, the First Three Generations by George F. Kennan:

This book review was published in the spring & summer 2002 volume of The Historian.

Book Review of Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies by Elaine G. Breslaw:

This book review was published in the winter 1998 volume of The Historian.

Book Review of Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England by Stephen Innes:

This book review was published in the summer 1996 volume of The Historian.

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