Selected presentations and publications

Public presentations

Living the Spirit of Ubuntu: Responding with Hope to God’s Call to Cherish Creation and One Another

Pendle Hill Monday Night Lecture, August 5, 2024

“An Angel of Merging”

Live presentation to Quaker Leadership Center annual conference, 2023; Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 2024; Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, 2025

Convertirnos en los Cuáqueros que el Mundo Necesita

Plenary, Iglesia Evangelica Union Boliviana Amigos, 2023

Becoming the Quakers the World Needs

Multi-session keynote, Great Plains Yearly Meeting, 2023

Creating Faithful Action in our Changing World

Illinois Yearly Meeting, 2023

Becoming the Quakers the World Needs

Boston University School of Theology Conference The Spiritual Ground of Quaker Witness, 2023

The Conflict is Inherent: A Quaker Theology of Vocational Ministry

Published in Quaker Religious Thought, 2021

“What Comes Next?”

North Carolina Fellowship of Friends, 2020

We Think We’re Separate

Friends Journal, October 2016 (Originally a plenary presentation at Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative)

“Growing the Vitality of the Quaker Community through Philanthropy”

Friends Fiduciary Quaker Fundraisers Gathering 2018, Moderator of Plenary Panel

Servant style leadership within organizations

ESR Quaker Leadership Conference 2014 Panel

“Strategic Planning on a Thin Dime“

ESR Quaker Leadership Conference 2015 workshop

“Quaker Craft: Becoming the Quakers the World Needs“

North Pacific Yearly Meeting 2015

“Growing from Common Roots Toward the Light”

Baltimore Yearly Meeting 2013 Carey Memorial Lecture

“La Mujer Samaritana”

Workshop series, Junta Anual Santidad Amigos Guatemala, Junta Mensual Santa Rosa de Copan, Iglesia Evangelica los Amigos Soyapango, El Salvador, 2013

“Spiritual Hospitality”

Workshop Co-leader, with Darcy Stanley. Redwood Forest Monthly Meeting, 2007

“Convergent Friends: Reclaiming the Power of Primitive Quakerism in a Postmodern World”

Workshop Co-leader, with C. Wess Daniels, Shawna Roberts and David Male, Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas Annual Meeting, 2007

“On Fire! Renewing Quakerism Through a Convergence of Friends”

Interest Group Co-leader, with Martin Kelley and Liz Oppenheimer, FGC Summer Gathering, 2006

“What Is a Spiritual Leading? How Do I Know If I Have One? How Can S.F.M.M. Support Me if I Do?”, “Membership in the Religious Society of Friends,” “Vocal Ministry,” “Marriage in the 21^st Century,” “Blogging as Ministry,” “What Do We Want Children To Get Out Of First Day School?”, “Introduction to Quakerism” series

Adult Religious Education topics at San Francisco Monthly Meeting

Publications

“The Development of Quaker Institutions,” and “Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas,” chapters in The Quaker World, eds.

Daniels, C. Wess & Rhiannon Grant, 2022 Routledge Press

Facing Hard Truths

Friends Journal, April 2020

A Wider Quaker Fellowship

WHYY.org April 2020

The Conflict is Inherent: A Quaker Theology of Vocational Ministry

Paper published in Quaker Religious Thought, 2021, originally presented to Quaker Theology Discussion Group 2020

“The True and Proper Purpose of Quaker Yearly Meetings“

Quaker Religious Thought, 2017, originally presented to Quaker Theology Discussion Group 2017, American Academy of Religion

In Celebration of Bivocational Ministry

Friends Journal, February 2014

“Prologue: Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes?”