Ballyhoo - Honors, Awards, Press Notices, and Fun Things
Honors, Awards, Grants
Stodghill Research Professorship (research leave), 2016
Kirk Award for Excellence in Teaching, Centre College, 2004 and 2014
David Hughes Award for teaching excellence, ODK [student leaders], Centre College, 2014
Professor of the Year, Delta Delta Delta sorority, Centre College, 2001 and 2013
Centre Scholar, 2001-03
“What is the Happy Society?” NEH Enduring Questions course development grant, 2011
“Systemic Approaches for Creating More Inclusive Campus Climates through Coursework and Cooperation: A Multi-Campus Collaboration” ACS Mellon Grant, 2011
"Teaching the Reformed Tradition" Workshop, Wabash Center, 2004
“Religious History of Centre College.” Rhodes Consultation, 2000
“Christian Intellectuals.” Louisville Institute, 1999
"Faith and Family Life,” Knight Foundation (Centre College), 1993
Diversity & Liberal Arts Symposium. Kentucky Humanities Council, 1992
"Ironic Protestantism at Home: The Impact of Christian Realism on Family Life." Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism & Am. Culture, 1991
Stodghill Research Professorship (research leave), 2016
Kirk Award for Excellence in Teaching, Centre College, 2004 and 2014
David Hughes Award for teaching excellence, ODK [student leaders], Centre College, 2014
Professor of the Year, Delta Delta Delta sorority, Centre College, 2001 and 2013
Centre Scholar, 2001-03
“What is the Happy Society?” NEH Enduring Questions course development grant, 2011
“Systemic Approaches for Creating More Inclusive Campus Climates through Coursework and Cooperation: A Multi-Campus Collaboration” ACS Mellon Grant, 2011
"Teaching the Reformed Tradition" Workshop, Wabash Center, 2004
“Religious History of Centre College.” Rhodes Consultation, 2000
“Christian Intellectuals.” Louisville Institute, 1999
"Faith and Family Life,” Knight Foundation (Centre College), 1993
Diversity & Liberal Arts Symposium. Kentucky Humanities Council, 1992
"Ironic Protestantism at Home: The Impact of Christian Realism on Family Life." Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism & Am. Culture, 1991
Popular Articles
I wrote some pieces for Kentucky Humanities magazine.
“Creation vs. Evolution.” On the Creation Museum controversy. 2009
"A Kentucky Home." On the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Louisville. 2001
“The Millennium: Theories of the End.” 1998
“The Religion Market.” 1997
I also wrote a somewhat notorious article in Christianity Today in 2002, "The Battle of Lexington and Wilmore."
I wrote some pieces for Kentucky Humanities magazine.
“Creation vs. Evolution.” On the Creation Museum controversy. 2009
"A Kentucky Home." On the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Louisville. 2001
“The Millennium: Theories of the End.” 1998
“The Religion Market.” 1997
I also wrote a somewhat notorious article in Christianity Today in 2002, "The Battle of Lexington and Wilmore."
Rally to Restore Sanity, with Susan Weston
The News
I was interviewed for the Startup Societies Summit on centrism, social experiments, and separatism.
I had my 15 minutes of worldwide fame for my coffeehouse class. An Associated Press story went everywhere; it was in papers in Moscow, Beijing, in Stars and Stripes in Iraq, on MTV.com, and many local newspapers like this one. I was interviewed on the radio in Alberta and Japan. Many students writing coffee papers wrote to me. The class even got into Bryant Simon's Everything But the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks when he generously shared the manuscript with us.
The college made a webcast from the class.
In 2016 - 17 I had a weekly interview on WKYB about happiness and social science research.
I got to give the first "Flameside Chat," an interactive webcast, on happiness.
We organized 60 students, sponsored by Centre Democrats and Centre Republicans, to take a bus to DC for Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity."
We invented an "editorial assistant" internship so my helpful students could help me with the Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity newsletter.
I got to travel in Turkey and Strasbourg with the Brown Fellows.
Each year we donate "Weird Pizza With the Westons" to the United Way Favors Auction.
One of my favorite public lectures is "The World is Getting Better."
My students rose to a fund-raising challenge in a gratifying way.
I sneak Durkheim's "collective effervescence" into student consciousness.
I was interviewed for the Startup Societies Summit on centrism, social experiments, and separatism.
I had my 15 minutes of worldwide fame for my coffeehouse class. An Associated Press story went everywhere; it was in papers in Moscow, Beijing, in Stars and Stripes in Iraq, on MTV.com, and many local newspapers like this one. I was interviewed on the radio in Alberta and Japan. Many students writing coffee papers wrote to me. The class even got into Bryant Simon's Everything But the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks when he generously shared the manuscript with us.
The college made a webcast from the class.
In 2016 - 17 I had a weekly interview on WKYB about happiness and social science research.
I got to give the first "Flameside Chat," an interactive webcast, on happiness.
We organized 60 students, sponsored by Centre Democrats and Centre Republicans, to take a bus to DC for Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity."
We invented an "editorial assistant" internship so my helpful students could help me with the Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity newsletter.
I got to travel in Turkey and Strasbourg with the Brown Fellows.
Each year we donate "Weird Pizza With the Westons" to the United Way Favors Auction.
One of my favorite public lectures is "The World is Getting Better."
My students rose to a fund-raising challenge in a gratifying way.
I sneak Durkheim's "collective effervescence" into student consciousness.