Moderator and Presentation of Fabrics of Discourse:  Culture, Ideology, and Religion.  “Rhetoric and the New Testament Section.”  Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 19, 2000.

"A Response to 'Ethnicity, Ethnocentrism, and the Matthean Ethnos' by Dennis Duling," Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Bonn, Germany, August 1, 2003.

"Expanding the Classroom Walls through Information Technology: Religion 348: The New Testament in its Contexts." Cross-Disciplinary Inquiries Into the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Oxford College of Emory University, October 15, 2002.

"Response to 'Why We Need Socio-Rhetorical Commentary and What It Might Look Like,' by Duane F. Watson." Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Durham, England, August 5, 2002.

Presider, "Rhetoric and the New Testament Section."  Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November 19, 2000.

External reviewer for "SCR102-W: Biblical Interpretation," a course conducted by G A van den Heever and S W van Heerden at the University of South Africa.  The review was of the March 2000 tutorial letter.

Presider, "Rhetoric and the New Testament Section."  Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 20, 1998.

"A Response to 'Narrative as Persuasion:  Epideictic Rhetoric and Scribal Amplification in the Stephen Episode in Acts.'"  Presented in the "Rhetoric and the New Testament Section," at the 1996 SBL Annual Meeting in New Orleans, November, 1996.

"A Socio-Narratological Response to Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14." Presented in the "Rhetoric and New Testament Section," at the 1995 SBL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, November 18, 1995.

Drafts of two chapters from What Are They Saying About the Parables? to members of the NEH Summer Seminar: "The Sacred, Secular, and Profane: Bible and Literature in Bakhtinian Perspective." Yale University, June 10 - August 3, 1995.

"Shall We Marry Our Enemies (Part II)?: The Rocky Courtship of Literary and Social-Scientific Criticisms in New Testament Studies." Presented in the "Social Science and New Testament Interpretation Section," at the 1994 SBL Annual Meeting in Chicago, November 22, 1994.

"Emerging Interdisciplinary Trends in New Testament Studies: The Dialogue Between Literary and Social-Scientific Criticisms in New Testament Studies." Berry College, March 28, 1994.

"The Parable of the Good Samaritan."  McKendree College, March 10, 1993.

"Knowledge, Virtue, and Power," Honors Day Convocation, Chowan College, January 21, 1993.

External Examiner: A Response to Merrill A. Kitchen, "The Parable of the Pounds: A Reading of Luke 19.11-28 within the Social and Narrative Framework of the Gospel of Luke." A Master of Theology Thesis presented to The Melbourne College of Divinity, Whitley College, Melbourne, Australia, July 1, 1993.

"Hospitality and Characterization in Luke 11:37-54: A Socio-Narratological Approach." Presented in the "Biblical Criticism and Literary Criticism Section" at the 1992 SBL Annual Meeting in San Francisco, November 22, 1992.

Presider, "Rhetoric and the New Testament Section." Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 23, 1992.

"Righteousness for Everyone Who Believes": A Response to Per Jarle Bekken, "Restoration, Conversion, and Mission: Some Reflections on Paul's Missionary Theology in Romans 10 regarded in its Jewish Context." Trondheim International Symposium on "Recruitment, Conquest, and Conflict in Judaism, Early Christianity and the Greco-Roman World." Trondheim, Norway, August 4, 1992.

Presider, "Rhetoric and the New Testament Section." Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 24, 1991.

Presentation of Host, Guest, Enemy and Friend: Portraits of the Pharisees in Luke and Acts. Presented to the Divinity Faculty, Biblical Studies Division, at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, November 2, 1991.

"The Characters of Luke from a Socio-Narratological Perspective." A paper presented to the Theology Faculty of the University of Loyola in Chicago, March 1, 1990.