Recent Publications and Presentations
Publications
2023
2022
Messer, N. (2022). “Disease,” in Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics, ed. William Schweiker et al., Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, vol. 3, 1077–83.
Nguyen, A., Angosta, A., Ke, W., Khong, T., Tran, C. & Kim, M. (2022). Diabetes prevalence, risk factors, and care in Asian American and Pacific Islanders of Texas: Data from the 2015–2019 Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System. The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care, 48 (5), 387-399. https://doi.org/10.1177/26350106221116902
2021
2020
Nguyen A. P. (2020). Risk perception of developing diabetes: A concept analysis. Nursing Forum.
Stahl, D. (2020). Re-Imagining the Healing Service. Theology Today, 77(2): 165-178.
Presentations
2023
Spies, L. A., Nguyen, A. P., Mai., L. A. T., & Carriveau, K. L. (2023, July). Promoting community non-communicable disease health through family support interventions. Podium Presentation at the 2023 International Council of Nurses Congress “Nurses Together: A Force for Global Health”. Montreal, Canada.
2022
Jeffrey, A. (2022). More Relative Goodness. American Catholic Philosophical Association Meeting. November 18. New Orleans, LA.
Jeffrey, A. (2022). Is It Possible to Love (and Empathize with) Your Enemy? Society for Christian Philosophers Midwest Meeting, Colorado Springs, October 28.
Jeffrey, A. (2022). Loving Your Enemy in a Democratic State. MANCEPT workshop, University of Manchester, September 8.
Jeffrey, A. (2022). More Relative Goodness. Pacific APA, Vancouver, April 2022. The Primacy of Hope for Human Flourishing. Brigham Young University, April 9.
Jeffrey, A. (2022, May). Loving Your Enemies. Notre Dame Workshop on Virtue, Love, and Forgiveness, Sedona.
Levin, J. (2022). Disability’s challenge to theology [book panel]. Faculty Roundtable, Baylor Ethics Initiative, Medical Humanities Program, and Department of Religion, Baylor University, Waco, TX, September 29.
Levin, J. (2022). Pikuach Nefesh: The literature on Jewish medical ethics. Bioethics Brownbag, Baylor University, Waco, TX, February 18.
Levin, J. (2022). Religion confronts COVID-19: Ethical issues in the faith community’s response to the pandemic. Presented at Ethics Week, Medical Ethics Discussion Society (MEDS), Baylor University, Waco, TX, March 21.
Messer, N. (2022, February 22). “Cognitive Science and Religious Faith: What (If Anything) Should Christian Theology Learn from the Cognitive Science of Religion?” Invited seminar paper, Faraday Institute, Cambridge.
Messer, N. (2022, February 16). “Members One of Another? Neurotechnologies, Artificial Intelligence, the Imago Dei, and the Body of Christ.” Invited seminar paper, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Exeter.
Nguyen, A. (presenting author), Angosta, A., Ke, W., Tran, C. Khong, T. & Kim, M. (2022, November). Cardiometabolic and mental health in Asian Americans of Texas: A focus on Vietnamese Americans. Podium Presentation at the 2022 Transcultural Nursing Society Conference. Louisville, KY.
Nguyen, A. (presenting author), Killingsworth, E., Tran, J., & Khong, T. (2022, February). Validation of a diabetes risk perception survey for Vietnamese Americans. Podium Presentation at the 2022 Southern Nursing Research Society Conference “Leveraging Health Equity through Nursing Partnerships in Research, Education, and Practice.” New Orleans, LA.
2021
Jeffrey, A. (2021). Growing Up and Acting for Right Reasons. Metaethics Colloquium Series, April 29 (online).
Jeffrey, A. (2021). One Goodness, Many Goodnesses (with Tom Ward). Princeton-Rutgers Philosophy of Religion Colloquium (online), March 12.
Jeffrey, A. (2021).The Goals of Medicine. Medical Humanities lecture, March 11.
Levin, J. (2021). Human flourishing and COVID-19: How spiritual values can help us meet population health challenges. Section Two: Where Did the Care Go?: Shifting Health Culture Toward Equitable Flourishing. From Healing to Flourishing: For Health of People, Places, and Plants. 10th Annual Conference of in VIVO Planetary Health, December 1.
Levin, J. (2021). 1918 vs. 2020: A tale of two pandemics. National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), Henry Downs Chapter, Waco, TX, February 5.
Levin, J. (2021). Issues in researching health outcomes of harm/abuse in NRMs. Identifying, Naming and Treating harm in New Religious Movements [round table]. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), San Antonio, TX, November 22.
Levin, J. (2021). Religion and medicine in the age of COVID-19. Grand Rounds, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, March 25.
Messer, N. (2021, May 5). “Members One of Another? Neurotechnologies, Artificial Intelligence, the Imago Dei, and the Body of Christ.” Invited seminar paper, University of Oxford.
Nguyen, A. (presenting author), Killingsworth, E., Tran, J., Ke, W., Khong, T., & Tran, C. (2021, November). Translation and validation of the Spiritual Perspective Scale- Vietnamese (SPS-V) version. Podium Presentation at the 2021 Emory NHWSN/Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association (AAPINA) Joint International Conference “Post COVID-19: Supporting Our Patients and Workforce Going Forward”. Atlanta, Georgia.
2020
Jeffrey, A. (2020). One Goodness, Many Goodnesses (with Tom Ward). Theistic Ethics Workshop (online), July.
Jeffrey, A. (2020). Practical Wisdom and Social Information Processing Theory, American Catholic Philosophical Association Meeting, New Orleans, November.
Jeffrey, A. (2020). Social Information Processing Theory and Thomistic Moral Psychology (with Krista Mehari). Pre-ACPA Thomistic Psychology Workshop, (online).
Jeffrey, A. (2020). The Divine Friendship Theory of Moral Motivation, Ryerson Philosophy of Religion Workshop (online), December 9.
Lettmore, L., & Levin, J. (2020). Faith, medicine, and ethics in the age of COVID-19 [panel]. Medical Ethics and Humanities Seminar Series, Baylor University, Waco, TX, October 28.
Levin, J. (2020). COVID-19 and the faith community. Christian Pre-Health Fellowship, Baylor University, Waco, TX, October 19.
Levin, J. (2020). Religious dimensions of infectious disease outbreaks: A conversation with Dr. Jeff Levin. 18th Annual David B. Larson Memorial Lecture on Religion and Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, March 12.
Nguyen, A. (presenting author), McEwen, M., Loescher, L. & Brewer, B. (2020, August). Perceived risk of developing diabetes and health-promoting behaviors in Vietnamese Americans with prediabetes. Poster Presentation at the 2020 American Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES) Annual National Conference. Virtual Conference.
Nguyen, A. (presenting author), McEwen, M., Loescher, L., & Brewer, B. (2020, February). A mixed methods approach to investigate risk perception of developing diabetes in Vietnamese Americans with prediabetes. Abstract accepted for Podium Presentation at the 6th Annual WANS International Conference “Knowledge Development in Nursing for Better Health and Life of the People in the World: Sharing the Local Knowledge for Universal Knowledge”. Osaka, Japan. Conference cancelled due to Covid-19; abstract published on WANS website.
Stahl, D. (2020, February). Healing Beethoven? The Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, Waco, TX.
Stahl, D. (2020, November). Telling the Truth of Our Lives: Intersectional Coalition Building. American Academy of Religion.
Stahl, D. (2021, January). Intersections and Methods in Disability Theology. Society for Christian Ethics, virtual.