Speaking

Upcoming events

2013

Fall Semester, "Catechism as Platform: Teaching the Catechism in a Digital Age" co-taught with The Rev. Dr. Martin Lohrmann distance learning course through the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia

October 8th, Website Consultation for Lilly Endowment grantees with Elizabeth Drescher, Ph.D.,at Duke University, Durham, NC

October 26th, "From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: How Social Networks are Changing the Church" for The Center for Pastoral Counseling at Springfield in conjunction with Neumann University, Springfield, PA

2014

January 20-21st,"Head, Hands, Heart and Smartphones: Ministry in a Digitally-Integrated World," Workshop with Elizabeth Drescher, Ph.D., The Center at Bangor Theological Seminary

January 24th, Woodbury Leadership Workshop with Elizabeth Drescher, Ph.D., Andover-Newton Theological School, Newton, MA

January 25th, New England Synod Communications Day with Elizabeth Drescher, Ph.D., Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester, MA

Previous Engagements

May 8-9th, "The Arts of Digital Ministry: Practicing Church Leadership in a Digitally-Integrated World" for the Western Iowa Synod, Storm Lake, IA

April 16th, Presenter at Upper Montgomery Conference of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod, ELCA, Grace Lutheran Church, Royersford, PA

April 20th, "Being Church in the Land Between Religions" workshop with co-author Elizabeth Drescher at Upper Dublin Lutheran Church, Ambler, PA. Register here on Eventbrite.

Keynote Speaker, "Church on the Edge" conference, St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Perkasie, PA (January, 2013)

Presenter, Digital Ministry for Synod Communicators webinar hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (November, 2012)

Co-Presenter on Living in Tension in the Community of Christ for Philadelphia Area Ecumenical Resource Network (PAERN), Huntingdon Valley, PA (November 2012)

Presenter, Webinar on Digital Ministry for the Center for Progressive Renewal (June 2012)

Instructor, Workshops in New Media, Andover Newton Theological School Media Center (Newton, MA, May 2012)

Discussion Panelist and Workshop Presenter at the Massachusetts Council of Churches Annual Meeting, themed Networks of Churches and Social Networks: Christian Unity in the Digital Age (Wellesley, MA, April 2012)

Instructor, Adult Education and Technology in Congregations, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA, March 2012)

Keynote and Discussion Panelist, Rocky Mountain Synod Theological Conference (Fort Collins, CO, January 2012)

Instructor, Workshops in Web and Social Media at Andover Newton Theological School Media Center (Newton, MA, October 2011)

God's Work. Our Tweets. A Social Media Workshop for Pastors (Hartford, CT, March 2011)

Affirming the Ordinary: Thinking Theologically About Social Media and I Get By With a Little Help from My Friends at the New England Synod Annual Rostered Leaders Retreat (Freedom, NH, January 2011)

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: How Social Media is Changing the Church, presented at the Central Massachusetts Conference Lay School of Theology (March 2010) and the New England Synod Assembly (June 2010).