Past Host Communities

Academic Institutions

 

  • Ohio State University (Aquatic Ecology Lab), Columbus, OH
  • Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, Star Island, NH
  • Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, WV
  • The Circle School, Harrisburg, PA
  • Asbury Methodist Village/Keese School of Continuing Education
  • Union Theological Seminary, NYC, NY
  • United Methodist Leadership Days, Hagerstown, MD
  • St. Stephens Episcopal School, Harrisburg, PA
  • Kenyon College’s Brown Family Environmental Center, Gambier, OH
  • Kenyon College: Gund Gallery Theatre, Gambier, OH
  • McMurry University, sponsored by the Physics Department, Abilene, TX

 

Civic Organizations

 

  • Parliament of the World’s Religions
  • Chautauqua Institution (Hall of Philosophy, 2024 & 2025)
  • West York Rotary Club, York, PA
  • A.R.E. Summer Camp, Rural Retreat, VA
  • Association for Research and Enlightenment, Va Beach, VA
  • Scattergood Friends School, West Branch, IA (30th Reunion Great Peace March)
  • Juniata County Public Library, Mifflintown, PA (host: ThreeLeaf Farmden)
  • A.R.E. Camp, Rural Retreat, VA
  • Kellogg Hubbard Public Library, Montpelier, VT
  • Peace Camp 2017, Scattergood Friends School, West Branch, IA
  • Friends of the Institute Of Noetic Sciences, Baltimore, MD
  • PA Interfaith Power and Light, Harrisburg, PA
  • Evolvefest Yoga Festival, Fellowship Farm, Pottstown, PA
  • Susquehanna Ethical Society, Lewisburg, PA
  • Camp Unirondack, Lowville, NY
  • Living Dream Festival, Middleburg, VA
  • Lucid Dream Festival, Camp Ramblewood, MD
  • Lions Club, New Philadelphia, OH
  • Zion Canyon Mesa artists’ retreat, Springdale, UT
 

Webinars, Video Interviews, & TV

 

  • Institute on Religion in an Age of Science monthly webinar
  • Falmouth Community TV’s Poetic License program, July, 2025
  • Creation Spirituality Community’s monthly Global Kinship webinar
  • American Theosophical Society
  • Fireside Creators with Rev. Sheri Pallas
  • Religious Naturalist Association’s Reverence for Reality vidcast
  • Kosmic Vespers (monthly live contemplative webcast)
  • California Interfaith Power and Light
 

Podcasts

 

  • The Leftscape podcast (two episodes)
  • Philip Goldberg’s Spirit Matters podcast
  • Down the Wormhole podcast
  • The Radical Sacred podcast

 

Businesses

 

  • Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA
  • The Yoga Place, Canton, OH
  • Just Plain Yoga, Camp Hill, PA
  • AFK Books & Records, Virginia Beach, VA
  • Shauna Yorty Art Space, Lebanon, PA
  • Yoga Central, Canton, OH
  • Kundalini Yoga Studio, New Cumberland, PA
  • Re:Create Arts Initiative, Lebanon, PA
  • Gossamer Wood Retreat Center, Canandaigua, NY

 

Retirement Communities

 

  • Asbury Methodist Village, Gaithersburg, MD
  • Ohio Living Breckenridge, Willoughby, OH
  • Brookdale Community, North Raleigh, NC
  • Brookdale Edina, Edina, MN
  • Judson Smart Living South Franklin Circle, Chagrin Falls, OH
  • Judson Park Senior Living, Cleveland, OH
  • Ohio Living Rockynol, Akron, OH
  • Atria Holiday Essex House, Lemoyne, PA
  • Ecumenical Retirement Community, Harrisburg, PA
  • Traditions Hershey, Hershey, PA
  • Judson Manor, Cleveland, OH
  • Ohio Living Lake Vista, Cortland, OH
  • Eastern Star Ohio, Mt. Vernon, OH
  • Thirwood Place, Yarmouth, MA
  • Masonic Village, Elizabethtown, PA
  • Glenview at Pelican Bay, Naples, FL
  • Moldaw Inspired Living, Palo Alto, CA
  • Kendal at Oberlin, Oberlin, OH

 

Talks in Private Homes

 

  • Columbus OH
  • Victor NY
  • Frostburg, MD
  • Durham, NC
  • Providence, RI
  • Mount Vernon, OH

 

Interfaith Communities

(UU spaces are interfaith, but listed separately below.)

  • The Parliament of the World’s Religions
  • Chautauqua Institution (2024, 2025), Cultural Ethics Lecture Series; Hall of Philosophy
  • Institute on Religion in an Age of Science
  • Wild Goose Festival (JD curates the Science events since 2022)
  • Association for Research and Enlightenment, Va Beach, VA
  • Abilene Interfaith Council at McMurry University, Abilene, TX
  • Abilene Interfaith Council at Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal, Abilene, TX
  • Sinai and Synapses, a project of the Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, NYC
  • Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum, Los Alamos, NM

 

Faith Communities

 

  • Heights Christian Church, Shaker Heights, OH
  • United Methodist Leadership Conference, Otterbein UMC, Hagerstown, MD
  • Christ Episcopal Church, Shaker Heights, OH
  • Woodford Memorial UMC, Elkins, WV
  • Nativity Episcopal Church of St. Stephen, Newport, PA
  • Foundation of Light, Ithaca, NY
  • Gita Nagari Yoga Farm (Hindu), Port Royal, PA
  • Rockville United Church, Rockville, MD
  • First Christian Church, Uhrichsville, OH
  • Private home for a UCC study group, Harrisburg, PA
  • Penbrook UCC, Harrisburg, PA
  • Fellowship of the Inner Light, Virginia Beach, VA
  • First Congregational Church of Verona, NJ
  • Merging Hearts, Canton, OH
  • Gay Street United Methodist Church, Mt. Vernon, OH
  • Chautauqua Disciples of Christ Denominational House, Chautauqua, NY
  • The Well UMC, Weldon Springs, MO

 

UU Communities

 

  • UU General Assembly 2025, Baltimore, MD
  • Unitarian Fellowship of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
  • Unitarian Church of Harrisburg, Clover Lane campus, Harrisburg, PA
  • Unitarian Church of Harrisburg, Market Street campus, Harrisburg, PA
  • First Parish Unitarian Universalist, Concord, MA (Thoreau’s church!)
  • UU Congregation of Fairfax, Oakton, VA
  • UUs of Grants Pass, OR
  • Main Line Unitarian Church, Devon, PA
  • UU Congregation of York, PA
  • First UU Society of Marietta, OH
  • UU Church of York’s Wellspring Wednesday Program, York, PA
  • UU Church of Hagerstown, MD
  • UU Congregation of Danbury, CT
  • UU Congregation of Queens, NY
  • First Unitarian Church of Rochester, NY (Youth Group)
  • UU Fellowship of Greater Cumberland, MD
  • UU Fellowship of Pottstown, Pottstown, PA
  • UU Fellowship of Decatur, IL
  • Unirondack Camp & Conference Center, Lowville, NY
  • UU Society of Bangor, ME
  • Pathways UU Church, Hurst TX
  • Community UUs of Brighton, MI
  • Fargo-Moorhead Unitarian Universalists, Fargo, ND
  • Unitarian Congregation of West Chester, PA
  • Mount Vernon Unitarian Church, Mount Vernon, VA
  • Unitarian Universalists of Gettysburg, PA
  • Unitarian Church of Charleston, SC
  • UU St. Pete, St. Petersburg, FL
  • Hunterdon UU, Frenchtown, NJ
  • All Souls UU Church of Bellville, OH
  • UU Church of Lancaster, PA
  • First UU Church of Nashville, TN
  • Eliot Chapel, St. Louis, MO
  • First UU Church of Rochester, MN
  • First Universalist Church of Minneapolis, MN
  • UU Church of Minnetonka, MN
  • North American Unitarian Association (online congregation: US, Mex, Can)
  • UU Church of Verdugo Hills, CA
  • Glacier UU Fellowship, Kalispell, MT
  • Headwaters UU Fellowship, Bemidji, MN
  • Mid-Columbia UU Fellowship, Hood River, OR
  • UU Fellowship of Fredonia, NY
  • Georgia Mountains UU Church 
  • UU Fellowship of Falmouth, MA
  • UU Meeting House, Chatham, MA
  • UU Community of Halifax, NS
  • UU Society of the High Desert, Victorville, CA
  • Chalice UU Congregation, Escondido, CA
  • UU Society of Sacramento, CA
  • UU San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
  • Beacon UU, Flagstaff, AZ
  • Los Alamos Unitarian Church, Los Alamos, NM
  • UU Fellowship of Athens, OH
 

Ethical Societies

 
  • Susquehanna Ethical Society, Lewisburg, PA
  • Washington DC Ethical Society

 

Publications

 

  • Children’s book “Before the Beginning—A Child’s First Book of the Great Story”
  • Zygon Journal of Religion and Science (peer reviewed)
  • Wild Onions magazine
  • PA Interfaith Power and Light’s “Daily Sustenance”
  • Creation Justice’s blog
  • Pantheist Vision magazine (multiple)
  • Braver/Wiser weekly inspirational email (multiple)
  •  On The Level, quarterly magazine of the Vestibular Disorders Association
  • Tiny Truths, 140-character stories
  • published in Creative Non-Fiction Magazine

 

Living Dream Festival, 2023

Brookdale Edina, MN, 2025