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Presentations
and Lectures to Community Groups
The Annales School of
Historical Research, Guest lecture to Phi Alpha Theta, Penn State University,
March 1987
Welsh Immigration to America,
St. DavidÕs Day Banquet, State College, PA, March 1991
The Strange Case of the
Shavertown Nazi: Klansmen and Nazis in North-Eastern Pennsylvania 1923-1942,
Anthracite League, State College, PA, August 1992
European Security and the
Situation in Yugoslavia, Centre County Navy League, Boalsburg, PA, February
1993
PennsylvaniaÕs Fascists,
State College Rotary Club, October 1994
The Other Gospels, Series presented to
Adult Forum, St. AndrewÕs Episcopal Church, State College, PA, Fall 1995
Fascism in Pennsylvania, Sons
of the Revolution, Washington Day Dinner, State College, PA, February 1996
The Turner Diaries, State
College Lit Club, March 1996
The Druids and Celtic
Paganism, Penn State Silver Circle, March 1996
The Politics of Memory and
the Dorchester Monument, State College Lit Club, May 1996
The Serbs: Why America Got It
Wrong, Relief Banquet, St Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church, Monroeville, PA,
September 1996
Are the Media Anti-Catholic?
Penn State Catholic Faculty-Staff Group, State College, PA, February 1997
Tracing Welsh Ancestors,
Centre County Genealogical Society, State College, PA, March 1997
Militias, State College
Rotary Club, April 1997
Contemporary Scholarship on
the New Testament, Penn State Catholic Faculty-Staff Group, State College, PA,
December 1997
The McCarthy Era at Penn
State, State College Rotary Club, March 1998
Welsh Immigration to the
United States, Welsh Society of Philadelphia, October 1998
The History of the Episcopal Church,
Series presented to Adult Forum, St. AndrewÕs Episcopal Church, State College,
PA, Fall 1998
Understanding the Kosovo War,
Vidovdan Banquet, St Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church, Monroeville, PA, June
27, 1999
Cults and New Religions, Series presented
to Adult Forum, St. AndrewÕs Episcopal Church, State College, PA, Spring 2000
Heretics, Series presented to Adult
Forum, St. AndrewÕs Episcopal Church, State College, PA, Spring 2001
Global Christianity, Series presented to
Adult Forum, St. AndrewÕs Episcopal Church, State College, PA, Fall 2001
The Next Christendom. State College
Assemblies of God, March 2002
The New Global Christianity, United
Methodist Ministerium, Lemont, PA, October 2002
Terrorism in America,
Pennsylvania Military Museum, Boalsburg, PA, January 2003 (this lecture was
also broadcast on local C-NET channel 7)
Terrorism in America,
University Club, State College, PA, February 2003
The Next Christendom, Foxdale
Village, State College, PA, May 2003
Terrorism in America, Barnes
and Noble Bookstore, State College, PA, June 2003
The Next Christendom,
Presbyterian Church, State College, PA, September 2003.
The New Anti-Catholicism,
Barnes and Noble Bookstore, State College, PA, October 2003
The Religious Face of the 21st
Century, Alumni Advisory Board, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State
University, October 2003; also presented to the Development Council, College of
the Liberal Arts, November 2003.
Investigating Terrorism: Can
We Ever Know the Truth? Research Unplugged, Penn State University, November
2003.
The New Anti-Catholicism,
Ancient Order of Hibernians, State College, PA, January 2004.
New Faces of Christianity,
Forum, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, January 2004.
The New Anti-Catholicism, Christian Graduate
Students Organization, Penn State University, January 2004.
The Da Vinci Myth, Penn State Smeal
Executive MBA Program, August 2004
Maritime Terrorism, Advisory
Board, Materials and Manufacturing Advisory Board (M2AB), Applied
Research Laboratory, Penn State, November 2004
The Celtic Church and Celtic Spirituality, Series presented
to Adult Forum, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, State College, PA, Spring 2005
True Lies: Historical Forgeries and
Falsehoods, Phi Alpha Theta banquet, Penn State University, March 2005
Is God Going South? The Rise of Global
Christianity, Geography Department Coffee Hour, Penn State University, March
2005
Reading the Bible in the Global South,
Series presented to Adult Forum, St. AndrewÕs Episcopal Church, State College, PA,
Fall 2005
Pietro della VecchiaÕs The
Sacrifice of JephthahÕs Daughter. Gallery talk at the Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University,
February 2006.
Global Christianity. University Baptist
and Brethren Church, State College, PA, April 2006.
Charles Williams as Writer
and Theologian, Adult Forum, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, State College, PA,
September 2006
Must There Be a
Clash of Civilizations and Religions? Schreyer Honors College, Penn State,
October 2006
The New Faces of
Christianity, Faith and Thought Conference, Calvary Baptist Church, State
College, PA, October 2006
Christianity in Contemporary Europe,
Christian Graduate Students Organization, Penn State University, February 2007
Windows on Mission, Series presented to
Adult Forum, St. AndrewÕs Episcopal Church, State College, PA, March 2007
How European Christianity Came Back From
The Dead, Religious Studies Program Lecture, Penn State University, April 2007
I moderated a panel on Climate
Change/Climate Justice: The Role of Religion, Penn State University, April 2007
Mission and Reconciliation, Series
presented to Adult Forum, St. AndrewÕs Episcopal Church, State College, PA,
October 2007
Global Christianity, Episcopal/Lutheran
Campus Ministry, Penn State University, October 2007
Panelist in Common Ground Lobby Talk on
Islam in Europe, Penn State University and WPSU television, broadcast February
2008
Will Europe become Eurabia? Penn State
X-Club, March 2008
The New Anti-Catholicism, Catholic
Graduate Student Association, Penn State University, March 2008
IcelandÕs Haunted Landscape, Alumni
Institute, Penn State University, June 2008