“Athenagoras’s Way Forward,” presented at Defend ꞌ19, an apologetics conference sponsored by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, January 7-11, 2019.
“The Scientific Adam and Hominids of Faith,” presented at Defend ꞌ19, an apologetics conference sponsored by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, January 7-11, 2019.
With Benjamin H. Arbour, Steven B. Cowan, and James S. Spiegel. Panel Discussion: “Idealism and Christian Philosophy,” Evangelical Philosophical Society, November 15-17, 2016.
With Robert Gagnon and Marcus Johnson. Panel Discussion: “The Church and Its Call to Sexual Holiness,” moderated by Andrew Schmutzer, Evangelical Theological Society, Midwest Region, April 11, 2015.
“The End of Man: Homosexuality and Humanity’s Telos,” presented as a plenary address to the Evangelical Theological Society, Midwest Region, April 10, 2015.
“Scripture, Science and Interpretation: Reading One Divine Book in Light of the Other,” presented as the Moody Theological Lecture, Moody Bible Institute, April 9.
With Garry Deweese, Vern S. Poythress, Paul D. Wegner, Tim L. Anderson, and Denny Burk. Panel Discussion: “Pedagogical Best Practices for the Doctrine of Inerrancy,” moderated by Jason Oakes, Evangelical Theological Society, November 19-21, 2013.
With Benjamin H. Arbour. “The Camel’s Nose: Open Theism and Biblical Interpretation,” presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 17-19, 2010.
With Benjamin H. Arbour. “The Camel’s Nose: Open Theism and Biblical Interpretation,” presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, Southwest Region, March 27-28, 2010.
“For Christ’s Sake: Appropriating and Infiltrating Popular Culture for the Kingdom of God,” presented at Christian Faith and the Arts, a conference sponsored by the Center for Leadership Development, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, February 24, 2006.
“Response to Gene Merrill’s ‘The Old Testament Word: Creator et Redemptor,’ ” presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 16-18, 2005.
“It Just Doesn’t Make Sense: Wrestling with God’s Will in a Tragic World,” presented as a plenary address at the Theological Symposium, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, September 20-21, 2005.
“Religious Language and the Philosophy of Openness,” presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 17-19, 2004.
“Desperately Seeking Bombadil: On Behalf of Ents and Oliphaunts,” presented as the third in a series, entitled Slouching Towards Gondor: Middle Earth and the Kingdom of God, for the Caulkins Lectureship, Western Baptist College, Salem, Oregon, November 8-10, 2004.
“American Idol: Popular Culture and the Kingdom of God,” presented as the second in a series, entitled Slouching Towards Gondor: Middle Earth and the Kingdom of God, for the Caulkins Lectureship, Western Baptist College, Salem, Oregon, November 8-10, 2004.
“What would Frodo do? Philippians 2 and the Ethics of Middle Earth,” presented as the first in a series, entitled Slouching Towards Gondor: Middle Earth and the Kingdom of God, for the Caulkins Lectureship, Western Baptist College, Salem, Oregon, November 8-10, 2004.
“J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings as Christian Apologetic,” presented at Set Forth Your Case, a conference sponsored jointly by the Evangelical Philosophical Society and Johnson Ferry Baptist Church of Marietta, Georgia, November 20-22, 2003.
“A Philosophical Response to Wolfhart Pannenberg on the Early Christian Appropriation of Greek Thought,” presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 14-16, 2001.
“Preparing the Way for a Response to Open Theism,” Presidential Address presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, Southwest Region, March 9-10, 2001.
“Openness and the Love of God,” presented at the Day-Higginbotham Lectures, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, February 8-9, 2001.
“On the Incarnation of a Timeless God,” presented at the biennial meeting of the Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers, September 22-24, 2000.
“Berkeley and the Incarnation,” presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 17-19, 1999.
“On the Incarnation of a Timeless God,” presented to the Evangelical Philosophical Society, November 17-19, 1999.
“Divine Presence and the Incarnation,” presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, Southwest Region, March 26-27, 1999.
“Berkeley and the Divine Nature,” presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 19-21, 1998.
“Virtue and Healthy Ministry,” presented at the Eurasian Symposium 98, February, 1998.
“What Has Certainty To Do With Knowledge? Prolegomena to an Evangelical Response to Post-Modernism,” presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 20-22, 1997.
“God, Time, and Simultaneity,” presented as the annual Philosophy of Religion Lecture for the Department of Philosophy, Dallas Baptist University, November 5, 1996.
“Are There Places God Hasn’t Been?” presented to the Evangelical Theological Society, November 16-18, 1995.
“Euthanasia, Capital Punishment and Mistakes-Are-Fatal Arguments,” presented at The Christian Stake in Dignity and Dying, a conference sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, July 13-15, 1995.
