Family Camp Director
For over twenty-five summers, I was a camp counselor and Family Camp director at Camp Lincoln / Camp Lake Hubert in Northern Minnesota. The Family Camp at Camp Lake Hubert has been ranked as one of the top ten family camps in America and has been featured on NBC's Today Show.
The family camp is a traditional activity camp offering regular activities, such as: sailing, horseback riding, riflery, trap shooting, archery, high ropes, low ropes, bog hikes, fishing, biking, canoeing, kayaking, wind surfing, paddle boarding, waterfront activities (zip-line, weenie and waterwheel) and lots of crafts -- pottery, tie-dye, candle-making, beading and lanyards, etc..
Special activities and opportunities included: our one-of-a-kind snow tumbler museum, an ever-popular coin hunt, random acts of kindness (aka, pranks), a polar bear swim and sauna club, sunrise painting, pontoon lunches, campfires and s'mores, skit night, county fair & bingo night, late night mellow time in the lodge. More subdued activities included hanging out in the amazing tree house, taking a nap in one of camp's many hammocks, listening to the loons and star gazing on the dock. The Northern Lights arre never too far away!
Book Reviews
‘Inventing the Holy Land: American Protestant Pilgrimage to Palestine, 1865 – 1941’ by Stephanie Stidham Rogers, Palestine Exploration Fund (forthcoming).
‘“Holy, Holier, Holiest”: The Sacred Topography of the Early Medieval Irish Church’ by David Jenkins, History Ireland 19:4 (July / August, 2011), 59.
‘Neighbor: Christian Encounters with “Illegal” Immigration’ by Ben Daniel, Theological Book Review 23.1 (2011), 103-104.
‘Aldersgate and Athens: John Wesley and the Foundations of Christian Belief’ by William J. Abraham, Theological Book Review 23.1 (2011), 108.
'Saving the Holy Sepulchre: How Rival Christians Came Together to Rescue their Holiest Shrine by Raymond Cohen’, Palestine Exploration Fund 142:3 (2010), 230-231.
‘Methodist Present Potential: And Realistic Hopes for the Future’ by Luke Curran and Angela Shier-Jones (eds), Theological Book Review 22.1 (2010), 106.
‘Religion in America: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Beal’, Theological Book Review 21.2 (2009), 116.
‘A Short World History of Christianity by Robert Bruce Mullin’, Theological Book Review 21.1 (2009), 134.
‘Sacred History and Sacred Geography: Spiritual Journeys in Time and Space by David Martin’, Theological Book Review 21.1 (2009), 119.
‘Adomnán and the Holy Places: The Perceptions of an Insular Monk of the Locations of the Biblical Drama by Thomas O’Loughlin’, Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 26 (2008), 137-140.
‘Colmán of Cloyne: A Study by Paul MacCotter’, History Ireland 12:3 (Autumn, 2004), 60.
Papers
'Reassessing Bede's De locis sanctis: New Discoveries in the Christian Topography of Early Islamic Jerusalem' delivered on July 4, 2013 at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, England.
‘Mark Twain and the “Claptrap Sideshows” of the City of Jerusalem’ delivered on December 11, 2010 at The American Humor Studies Association and The Mark Twain Circle of America 2010 Quadrennial Conference, San Diego.
‘Willibald and the Monument of the Miraculous Healing in Post-Byzantine Jerusalem’ delivered on May 15, 2008 at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem.
‘Willibald’s Image of Jerusalem’ delivered on March 23, 2006 at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem.
‘The Mental Map of Willibald of Eichstätt: A Preliminary Investigation’ delivered at England and the Continent (International Society of Anglo-Saxonists2005 Conference), August 2, 2005 in Munich, Germany.
‘The Holy Land Travels of St Willibald: The View from Eichstätt’ delivered at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 5, 20005 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
‘Echoes of the Encaenia Ecclesiae in Adomnán’s De locis sanctis’ delivered at Adomnán of Iona (d. 704): Theologian-Law Maker-Peace Maker, September 25, 2004 in Iona Village Hall, Scotland.
‘Jerome on Pilgrimage: A Critical Investigation of Epistula 108’ delivered at Jerome of Strido: Religion, Culture and Society in Late Antiquity, June 19, 2004 at University of Wales, Cardiff.
Education
Ph.D., University of Wales, UK, 2008 / Theology / Early Medieval Church History
MA, University of Wales, UK, 2002 / MA in Celtic Christianity (Distinction)
M. Div., Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1992
B.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1988 / Major: History, Anthropology; Minor: Psychology
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (1989), Senior Scholar (1988), Mortar Board (1987), Psi Chi (1987)
Fellowships and Scholarships
George A. Barton Fellowship, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
Educational and Cultural Affairs Junior Research Fellow (2005-06), W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
British Overseas Student Research Award
Clan MacBean Foundation Grant
Mortar Board National Fellowship
Brandenburg Graduate Award, United Methodist Church
United Methodist Women’s Division Scholarship
ESTARL Arkansas Eastern Star Scholarship
Duke Divinity School Dean’s Scholarship
University Scholar, Southern Methodist University
C. and C. Fonda Scholarship, Southern Methodist University
Academic Organizations
Palestine Exploration Fund