UPCOMING PUBLIC LECTURES

Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue

University of Galway: W Feb. 19, 2025: 11am ET (virtual)

The Trial of Socrates: Fact, Fiction, Reality, and Myth

NJ Judicial College: W Nov. 27, 2024: 9:45AM (virtual)

Humility vs. Clericalism: Juan de Avila and Pope Francis on Spiritual Formation and Reformation

Annual Irish Theological Quarterly guest lecture, St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland,  T 4 March 2025 

RECENT PUBLIC LECTURES

The Young and the Elderly in the Synodal Journey: Vatican City/Rome: June 2022

Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue

Loyola University-Chicago: T Nov. 12, 2024: 7pm CDT

Sacred Heart University, Fairfield CT: W Oct. 23, 2024

University of Illinois--Chicago: Th, April 11, 2024

Humanities North Dakota: webinar:  Feb. 13, 2024

Princeton Public Library: webinar: Jan. 21, 2024

Sarum College, UK: webinar:  December 2023

Brookdale Community College, Lincroft NJ, Nov. 2023 with Rabbi Brooks Susman

Seton Hall University, NJ: Oct. 2023

Montville Twp NJ Public Library: Sept 2023

Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo MI: May  2023

Fulbright New Zealand Alumni seminar: Wellington NZ, Feb. 2021

Humility and Learned Ignorance in the Middle Ages: International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology, Annual Winter Lecture, webinar: 15 February 2024 

OTHER TOPICS offered at universities, public libraries, community groups, centers for lifelong learning...

Ancient Greece 101 Ancient Rome 101 Middle Ages 101 Reformations 101

Crusades 101 Medieval Black Death: Lessons for Today Making Saints

Picking Popes The Middle Ages in the Modern World: A Dangerous Combination?

Medieval England 101

The Library that Healed a City: Christchurch, New Zealand

HIstory and Legend:

Cleopatra Trojan War Inquisition Pope Joan King Arthur Joan of Arc

Socrates' Trial Alexander the Great