2024 Christ Church Westshore, Avon Lake, Ohio. “The Gospel and Human Identity.” An invited plenary address given to the annual Synod meetings of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes (ACNA) (October 25)
2022 Denver, CO. “‘Marvelous Alteration to a Higher Estate’: On Holiness in a Receptionist Sacramentology.” Invited paper to the annual meetings of the Anglican Society of Theologians, connected to the meetings of the SBL/AAR. (November 16)
2019 San Diego, CA. “Confronted by the Light of the Gospel: John Webster’s Theology of Liturgy with Special Attention to the Eucharist.” Invited paper to the Anglican Theology Section of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 21)
2018 St. James Church, Paris, Canada. “On the Practices of Ministry after Secularism,” Invited presentation to Clericus for the Deanery of Brant and the Diocese of Huron, Anglican Church of Canada. (November 6)
2017 Indiana Wesleyan University. The State of the Evangelical Mind. Invited Conference Session Host. (September 21-23)
2017 Providence, Rhode Island. “Figural Reading and the Relationship of Divine and Human Agency” Given as an invited panellist for a Book Review session at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society on Ephraim Radner’s Time and the Word. Eerdmans. (November 15)
2016 Wycliffe College. “John Webster and Doing Theology after Postliberalism.” Invited speaker at memorial event for John Webster at Wycliffe College. (November 2)
2015 Atlanta, Georgia. Invited panellist for a book review session at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. On Scott Swain and Michael Allen’s Reformed Catholicity (Baker Academic, 2015). (November 16)
2013 Toronto, Canada. Invited guest on the Drew Marshall radio show. A roundtable discussion about recent controversies including those surrounding funding for international aid and debates over the existence of hell. (October 19)
2012 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Invited panellist for a book review session on Kevin Hector’s Theology Without Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 2011); Invited moderator, Panel Review Session on Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith (Zondervan, 2010) at the Annual Meetings of the Evangelical Philosophical and Theological Societies. (November 17-18)
2012 Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. “Postsecularism, Politics and Religion: Implications for Canadian Evangelicals,” given at the annual national Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. (May 26)
2012 University of Aberdeen, King’s College. Invited Seminar and Lecture: “Trinitarian Hermeneutical Pressures: Reconsidering the Rule of Faith.” (March 11-12)
2012 St. Andrews University, St. Mary’s College. Invited Lecture: “Divine Rhetoric: On the Practices of Scriptural Hermeneutics.” (March 9)
2012 University of Durham, St. John’s College. Invited Lecture: “On the Character and Virtues of Scriptural Interpretation.” (March 6)
2012 University of Cambridge, Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies. Invited Lecture: “We Have Never Been Secular: Postsecularism and the Politics of Scriptural Hermeneutics.” (March 5)
2012 Wabash College. Invited Lecture: “After Secularism: On the Relationship of Theology to the Public Administration of Religious Practices.” (January 23)
2011 San Francisco, California. Moderator and Chair, Panel Session on Kevin Vanhoozer: Remythologizing Theology. Method and Theology Section, Evangelical Theological Society. (November 18)
2011 Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, Canada. Invited Panellist: Seeing in the Dark: Faith, Film and the Toronto International Film Festival. Sponsored by Trinity College and Imago. (September 14)
2011 Trinity College, Toronto, Canada. Invited Guest Lecturer for the course: Film, Culture and Prophecy. “On the Value and Relationship of Film for Theology.” (September 11)
2011 York University, York, U.K. “On Metaphors and Scripture: Reading Scripture as Divine Rhetoric,” at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Theology. (April 12-14)
2010 Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario. Public Lecture and Faculty Colloquium: “The Waning of Secularism and the Waxing of Hermeneutics.” (December 3)
2010 Atlanta, Georgia. Society of Biblical Literature: “Narrative Christology and the Interpretation of Scripture: The Hermeneutical Gravity of the Lordship of Christ in the Speeches of Acts.” Theology and Christian Scripture Section. (November 23)
2010 Atlanta, Georgia. Moderator, Method and Theology Section: “On Plurality of Truth; Responses to John Franke’s Manifold Witness” at the national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 18)
2009 Ancaster, Ontario. Invited panellist for the national meetings of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada: “Emerging Paradigms in Church and Mission.”
2009 New Orleans, Louisiana. “The Trinitarian Character of Theological Interpretation of Scripture,” at the national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 24)
2009 Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. “The Growth and Influence of Emergent Calvinism.” Public lecture. (October 31)
2008 Providence, Rhode Island. “Reading in the Trinity: Lessons for Hermeneutics from Augustine’s Tractates on the Gospel of John” presented to the national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 21)
2008 Tyndale Seminary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. “Reading in the Trinity: Divine Agency in Augustine’s Hermeneutics with Attention to His Tractates on the Gospel of John.” Paper given at the conference: The Holy Trinity in Holy Scripture. (May 30)
2007 San Diego, California. “Dramatis Personae: The Ecclesial Dimension of Theological Hermeneutics,” at the national annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 16)
2007 Brock University, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, Canada. “Who’s Afraid of Theology? A Conversation with James K.A. Smith on Theology as the Grammar of Religious Particularity”: Invited speaker to a conference sponsored by the Brock University Philosophy Department. (March 23)
2006 Washington D.C. “Rendering Mute the Word: On Deistic Tendencies in Modern Evangelical Hermeneutics.” Invited paper given to the national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 16)
2006 St. Andrews University, Scotland. “Hebrews and the Heavenly Session of Christ: Hermeneutical and Doctrinal Reflections.” A paper presented at The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology; a conference hosted and sponsored by St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews. (July 20)
2005 Redeemer University, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. “The Missional Mandate: The Church in the World.” Public Lecture. (November 1)
2005 Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. “Response to Joseph Mangina: “Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness.” Invited presentation given to a Toronto meeting of the Karl Barth Society. (October 28)
2005 Redeemer University, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. “Postliberal Theology: Its Roots and Contemporary Relevance.” Public Lecture. (April 14)
2004 Bethel Seminary, San Diego, California. Forum on Christian Life and Ethics: War. Invited panel speaker. (March 19)
2003 St. Andrews University. Invited Delegate to Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation: the sixth annual Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar, St. Andrews University, Scotland. Invitation only consultation sponsored by the Scripture and Hermeneutics Project at the University of Gloucestershire, England. (August 28-30)
2002 The Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Faith Behind the Screens: The Role of Beliefs in the World of Film, Invited symposium panel speaker: The Ruth Memorial Series on the Arts & Culture. (May 3-4)
