Lectures
Literature
“Locating the Numinous: the centrality of Liminal Landscape in the writings of George MacDonald.”
C.S. Lewis Symposium
University of Iasi, Romania. 2020 (Covid-postponed)
“Childlikeness: MacDonald’s Audacious Challenge to the Academic.”
Invited Lecture, C.S. Lewis Symposium
University of Iaşi, Romania. 2018.
“Facilitating Phantastes.”
Plenary Lecture, C.S. Lewis Symposium
University of Iaşi, Romania. 2016. Re-presented on YouTube, 2021.
“Literary Legacies, Contextual Art: Phantastes’s Key of Cultural Challenge and Arthurian Reform.”
Verge Conference
Trinity Western University, Canada. 2016.
“MacDonald the Maurician Medievalist.”
Keynote Lecture, MacDonald Conference: “MacDonald & the Cambridge Apostles”
Cambridge University, England. 2016.
“Relationality of Reading: MacDonald, Scott, & Maurice.”
Linlathen Conference: How Shall We Then Read?
Beckwith, Canada. 2014.
“Cultivating Apprehension: Beauty in Children’s Literature.”
Keynote, St. Timothy’s Classical Academy Gala
St. Timothy's Classical Academy, Canada. 2014.
“Hobbited: A Mythopoeic Journey.”
Geneva Lecture
Queen's University, Canada. 2013.
“Branches on the Tree of Tales: Understanding Mythopoesis.”
Plenary, Tolkien Conference (with Trevor Hart, David L. Jeffrey, Loren Wilkinson, & Colin Duriez)
University of St. Andrews, Scotland. 2004.
“Images of MacDonald.”
Lecture with images of MacDonald’s world and illustrations of his work
St. Andrews and Aberdeen, Scotland. Also Regent College, Canada.
"George MacDonald & the World of Faerie."
Templeton Honors College
Eastern University, USA.
“If You don’t know George, You don’t Know Jack.”
C.S. Lewis Society of Oxford University
Oxford University, England.
“Mythopoesis & the Inklings.”
Guest Lecture for Literature of the Imagination
Stony Brook School, USA.
“Necessarily Storied: Lord of the Rings & the Shema.”
University of Ottawa, Canada.
“‘Out of the Shadows of Legend’: The Shema & J.R.R. Tolkien.”
Queen’s University, Canada.
“Rooted Deep: Relational Inkings of A Mythopoeic Maker.”
Keynote Lecture, MacDonald Conference: “MacDonald & the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy”
Oxford University, England.
“Speaking Matrilineally: MacDonald’s Celtic Heritage.”
MacDonald Conference: “George MacDonald Among His Contemporaries”
University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Theology
“‘For Men and Women’: the Nineteenth-Century Christian Feminism of George MacDonald.”
Keynote lecture, C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Colloquium
Taylor University, USA. 2020 (Covid-postponed).
“Comfort Ye: George MacDonald on Joy & Sorrow.”
Guest Lecture
Regent College, Canada.
“Concluding with a Beginning: the Storied Grace of Ruth.”
Lenten Talks
Herefordshire, England.
“Emmaus & Shema.”
Holy Trinity
Iaşi, Romania.
“George MacDonald & the Divine Imagination.”
Lecture
Stony Brook School, USA.
“Lewis, Tolkien, and the Storied Gospel.”
Plenary Lecture, C.S. Lewis Symposium
Bucharest Baptist Theological Seminary, Romania.
“MacDonald’s Intertextual Hermeneutic.”
Academic symposium of MacDonald scholars
Aberdeen and St Andrews, Scotland.
“MacDonald’s Response to Biblical and Literary Criticism in Curdie.”
MacDonald Centenary Conference
Baylor University, USA.
“MacDonald’s Use of Isaiah.”
George MacDonald Society Centenary Symposium
London, England.
“‘Out of the Shadows of Legend’: Tolkien, Hobbits, & the Gospel.”
Grace Church of the Roaring Fork Valley, USA.
“Publish or Parish? Turning Academia Upside Down.”
Plenary, Postgraduate Conference: "Transforming the Mind: Turning the World Upside Down" (with Alan Storkey and Bob White)
Derbyshire, England.
“Sacred Story: The Mythopoesis of George MacDonald.”
Plenary for Regent College’s Centenary George MacDonald Conference (with Kerry Dearborn)
Regent College, Canada.
“Shema In the Act: Moab to Emmaus.”
Franktown, Canada.
“The Influence of a Biblical Hermeneutic on MacDonald’s Curdie.”
Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts
University of St. Andrew’s, Scotland.
Ecology
“The Company We Keep: Do You know Your Native Land?”
A Rocha lecture
Hamilton, Ontario; also Ottawa, Ontario.
“The Heartbeat of Earth - A Theological Knowing of Land” (Host & Facilitator)
Other
“Storied Communion: The Novel Educational Methods of Robert Coles, and their Implications.”
Image Journal Conference: “A Narratable World: The Theological Implications of Story”
Seattle Pacific University, USA.
“Upside Down & Inside Out: Questioning the Pursuit of Academic Excellence.”
University of Ottawa, Canada.
“Living with Physical Disabilities.”
Lecture, St Leonard’s School
St Andrews, Scotland.