SELECTED PAPERS & LECTURES

"Teaching For Globalized Consciousness: A Revelation of White Shame," Association of Professors and Researchers of Religious Education, Denver, 2001.

"Poetics of Hospitality," (a poetry reading) American Academy of Religion, Womanist Consultation, Boston, 2000.

"The Aesthetics of Mystery," (keynote speaker) Academy of Worship, Scarritt-Bennett Center, Nashville, Tenn., October 27-30, 1999.

"Nurturing Ecology in a Teaching Church" & "Using Camping Experiences in Christian Education," (workshop leader & panel member) Tipple-Vosburg Lecture Series, Drew Theological Seminary, Fall, 1999.

"Unlikely Teachers From Unlikely Places," (keynote speaker) Fall University, Fort Worth Texas, September 10,11, 12, 1999.

"The Work of the People: The Necessity for a Pedagogy of Worship For Liberative Praxis," (paper as part of a panel) Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1997.

"Cauldrons of Justice for Womanish Hope: A Reading of Poetry," American Academy of Religion, Womanist Consultation, San Francisco, 1997.

"Preaching to the Choir: African-American Knowing Through Sacred Ritual." (paper as part of a panel) Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1996.

"Strengthening The Black Sunday School." (Keynote speaker) Jurisdictional Conference, Houston, Texas, March 1994 & 1995.