Trauma and Pastoral Care, The Department of Practical Theology, University of Pretoria. Pretoria, South Africa, Spring, 2008.
Pastoral Care After War, The Franciscan Seminary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Winter 2002
The Road of Ministry, Wake Forest University, March 2001
A Dream for the Millennium, honoring Solomon Melvin Coles, YDS, 1875, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TS 6/00
Welfare Reform: A Theological Perspective, Council of Church of Greater Bridgeport, CT, March 1998.
Self-Esteem and Spirituality, The Connecticut Mental Health Center, February 1998
Equipping Faith Communities for a Changing World, The Earl Lectures, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA 1997
Faith and Hope: Fashioning a Vision of Community in American Society, Greenhoe Lectures, Louisville Seminary 1996
The Partnership of Ministry and Medicine: Hope in Urban America, Yale Medical School, February 1995
A Ministry of Hope, The Day Missions Associates Lecture, Yale Divinity School Library, October 1994.