“Racial Bias in the Academy . . . Still?” Presidential Address at the Southwest Regional Meeting
of the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, Irving, Texas, March 2006.
“The Role of Cush in Isaiah.” Presented at the Evangelical Theological Society National
Meeting, Washington DC, November 2006.
“America’s Best Hope for Racial Harmony: The Next Generation,” and “A Biblical Perspective
on Interracial Marriage.” Presented at Interact 2007: A Conference on Racial Harmony,
Miami, March 2007.
“The Role of Cush in Isaiah 1-39.” Presented at the Southwest Regional Meeting of the Society
of Biblical Literature, Irving, TX, March 2007.
“An Evangelical Approach to OT Narrative Criticism.” Presented at the Evangelical Theological
Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2007.
“The Old Testament Prophetic Theme of Justice and a Narrative Reading of Luke 18:1-19:10.”
Presented at the Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting, Providence, RI,
November 2008; and the Southwest Regional meeting of the Institute for Biblical
Research, Irving, TX, March 2009.
“Central Paradigms for the Gentile Inclusion: An Intertextual Comparison of Jeremiah’s
Ebedmelech and Luke’s Ethiopian Eunuch.” Presented at the Evangelical Theological
Society National Meeting, Atlanta, November 2010.
“Just How Glorious Was Solomon’s Temple? A Narrative and Theological Comparison of
Solomon’s Approach to Building the Temple with Moses’s Approach to Building the
Tabernacle.” Presented at the Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting, San
Francisco, November, 2011.
“The Use of LXX Jeremiah in Luke-Acts.” Presented at the Evangelical Theological Society
National Meeting, Milwaukee, 2012; and at the Society of Biblical Literature National
Meeting, Chicago, 2012.
“The ‘Persecuted Prophet’ and Judgment on Jerusalem: The Role of LXX Jeremiah in the Gospel
of Luke.” Presented at the Southwest Regional meeting of the Institute for Biblical
Research, Irving, Texas, March, 2014.
“The Relational Presence of Yahweh in the Prophets: A Central Theme of Blessing, Judgment,
and Restoration.” Presented at the Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting,
Atlanta, November, 2015.
“The Influence of E. D. Hirsch on Evangelical Biblical Interpretation.” Presented at the
Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November, 2016.
“A Response to Hermeneutics as Apprenticeship, by David Starling.” Presented at the
Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting, Providence, RI, November 2017.
“Narrative Criticism: Our Most Useful (but not the only) Tool in Our Narrative Interpretive
Toolbox.” Presented at the Evangelical Theological Society National Meeting,
Providence, RI, November 2017.
“The Old Testament and the Mission of God.” Presented at the conference Christianity and the
Death of the Old Testament. FBC Branson, MO, October 6-7, 2017.
“1 Samuel 16-31.” Taught at Downline, Conway, AR. November 9, 2017, and November 7,
2019.
“An Inter-textual, Narrative Comparison of Solomon’s Construction of the Temple in 1 Kings 6-