2025 Three part series on “Ecological Conversion,” Good Shepherd  Parish, Golden Valley, MN, in July.  

2025 Retreat Presentation. “Creation Waits with Eager Longing,” Thriving in Rural Ministry, October.  

2024  Retreat Presentation. “Another Way of Seeing,” Thriving in Rural Ministry, in October.  

2023 Successful petition for continuing Accreditation for all programs of The Saint Paul Seminary by the Association of Theological Schools. 

2022 Retreat Seminar. Thriving in Rural Ministry. Catholic Rural Life.  

2022 Panel Chair, Theological Perspectives. “Sowing Good Seeds: Christian Perspectives on Agriculture in Higher Education Systems.” Anselm House, University of Minnesota, June.  

2021  Integrative Formation Seminar, The Saint Paul Seminary. November. 

2021 Retreat Seminar. Thriving in Rural Ministry. Catholic Rural Life.  

2020  Retreat Seminar. Thriving in Rural Ministry. Catholic Rural Life. October.  

2020  Retreat Seminar. Thriving in Rural Ministry. Tuscon, AZ. February.  

2020   Hosted a graduate seminar on “Integral Ecology in a Global Context” in Costa Rica. January.  

2019 Retreat Seminar. Thriving in Rural Ministry. Catholic Rural Life. November.  

2019  Paper Presentation. “Dysmorphic Identities.” Conference on Augustine and Contemporary Issues. The Saint Paul Seminary. June.  

2019 Retreat Seminar. Thriving in Rural Ministry. Catholic Rural Life. March.  

2019  Conference Organizer and Host. “Catholic Evaluation of CRISPR Technology.” Murphy Institute, University of St. Thomas.   

2018  Teaching Session/Lecture on Integral Ecology and Natural Law for  

the Minnesota Bishops Conference.  

2018  Co-ordinated “The Spirituality of Eating: Joining Food, Faith, and the Life of the World.” With Norman Wirzba, James Ennis, Jessica Hellman and John Mesko.  

2018   Co-ordinated “All Creatures Great and Small: Discerning a Catholic Protocol for Genetic Modification,” with Nicanor Austriaco, OP, John Berkman, and Jessica Hellman.  

2017  Co-ordinated International Conference on “Rethinking the Resources of the Christian Theological Tradition: retrieval, Renewal, Reunion?” with Paul Gavrilyuk (UST Theology Department), University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN. 

2016 Private Papal Audience with His Holiness, Francis, on the occasion of the reception of The Vocation of the Agricultural Leader, Vatican City. 

2016  Hosted international seminar: “Let Us Sing as We Go: Integral Ecology and Professing Laudato Si’,” including a concert performance by The Rose Ensemble on “Themes of Francis: Laudato Si’”, The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Saint Paul, MN. 

2016  Member/participant in the US Delegation. World Farmers Organization General Assembly, Lusaka, Zambia. 

2015 Member and presenter of US Delegation for Preparatory meetings for World Expo. Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Milan, IT.  

2015 Hosted national conference, “Human and Natural Ecology: Economic, Political, and Cultural Implications,” in collaboration with the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Center for Catholic Studies, The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Saint Paul, MN.  

2015 Interview. “Le ferme familiale est une communatué organicque,” in Famille Chrétienne, February, 2015. 

2015 Hosted: Faculty Colloquia on Laudato Si’, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN. 

2015  Presentation: “Principles and Tasks of Catholic Stewardship,” Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, Washington, D.C., in December.  

2014  Hosted seminar, “The Evolving Theology of Creation,” The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Saint Paul, MN.  

2014 Co-hosted inter-national conference, “Faith, Food and the Environment: The Vocation of the Agricultural Leader,” in collaboration with Catholic Rural Life, Minnesota Farmers Union.  

2013 Successful petition for continuing Accreditation for all programs of The Saint Paul Seminary by the Association of Theological Schools Accreditation Review. 

2013  Presentation. “Green Thomism and the Challenge of GMO’s,” The Saint Paul Seminary and the School of Law of the University of St. Thomas, in May.  

2011 Hosted seminar: “Nature as Norm,” The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Saint Paul, MN. 

2011 Private Papal Audience with His Holiness, Benedict XVI, Vatican City. 

2010 Hosted national seminar, “A Century of Ecumenism,” with Monsignor John A. Radano, on the occasion of the centenary of the 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary Conference, The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Saint Paul, MN. 

2009 Hosted International Conference: “Renewing the Face of the Earth: The Church and the Order of Creation,” at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Saint Paul, MN.  

2008 Hosted national symposium on Paul VI, The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Saint Paul, MN. 

2008 Hosted seminar on “The Legacy of John Paul II: On the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae,” The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Saint Paul, MN.  

2008 Hosted lecture series and seminar, “Remember Paul VI,” with Michael Sherwin, OP, Monsignor James Mulligan, and the Most Reverend Vincenzo Paglia, The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Saint Paul, MN.  

2007 Archbishop John Ireland Library Annual Lecture: “The Church, the Environment, and the Meaning of Man.” The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Saint Paul, MN.