Living Without Violence. Newton, KS: Faith and Life, 1994. Challenging Racism. Newton, KS: and Life, 1993. Popular Essays: “Gifts Worth Remembering at Graduation, The Missoulian, May 19, 2015. “Why Ferguson Matters to Missoula,” The Missoulian, December 3, 2014. “White Spiritual and Racial Formation: Three Conversions,” The Mennonite, December 2013. “A Scrawny Kind of Love,” Conspire, Vol. 5, No. 4, Fall 2013. “Lament Sung to My Sons,” Conspire, Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 2013. “I am a white man who lives in Montana and teaches black history,” Reflections West, Montana Public Radio Commentary, Year 3, Episode 61, air date December 12, 2012, http://www.reflectionswest.org/episodes/ep61_shearer.php. “Twelve Signs of the Kingdom at a Clumsy Congregation,” The Mennonite, November 2012. “Protest and the Power of Images: From Birmingham in 1963 to Davis in 2011, Those Who Repress Dissent Are Put on Public Display.” The Missoulian, Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 4. “Supper Club, Keith Wilson, and the Twigs of Grace,” The Mennonite, February 2010. Spaces,” The Other Side, March & April 2002. “Angels and a Dork,” With, March/April 2002. “Racism Kicks Back, God Heals The Wounds,” Purpose, November 4, 2001. “An Open Letter to Alex Chadwick of National Public Radio,” The Mennonite, September 25, 2001. “Spitwads: A Re-Telling of Mark 8:22-26,” With, November/December 2001. “Quieted by the Land,” The Mennonite, June 19, 2001.
“Following Fake Latinos,” The Mennonite, May 1, 2001. “Fake Latinos,” The Mennonite, January 9, 2001. “Pearls, Swine and Beloved,” The Mennonite, December 29, 1998. “Wall of History as Ritual and Remembering,” Conciliation Quarterly, Summer 1998. “What’s in a name?” The Mennonite, April 14, 1998. “A Word from God: ‘I will change your name,’” Christian Living, March 1998. “Where on the Damascus Road? Reflections for Urban Peacemaking,” Urban Connections, Fall 1997. “Public Schools: Learning with the Neighbors,” Christian Living, September 1997. “Mennonites and Racism: Much Work to Do,” The Mennonite, January 14, 1997. “Has Change Come?” a Common Place, May 1996. “Categorical Denial: Racism, Identity and the Possibility of Change,” Christian Leader, January 1996. “A Quiz on Racism,” The Mennonite, January 9, 1996. “Everyday Peacemaking,” With, December 1995. “Butter Sandwiches, Rides, and Affirmative Action,” Gospel Herald, October 31, 1995. “Beyond Easy: Building Racial Reconciliation,” The Christian Ministry, May-June, 1995. “Why is it so hard to talk about racism?” Gospel Herald, November 22, 1994. “Stopping the Hate,” With, July-August 1994.
“Waiting for a dream,” Christian Living, April-May 1994. “Racism and a Running Boy,” Builder, January 1993. “A Gift of Grace in Red, White and Blue,” Urban Connections, Fall 1992. “Nobody Should Die: Children's Wishes in the City,” Christian Living, September 1992. “A Clumsy Juggler Finds Grace,” Christian Living, July 1992. “Race Relations: Three Paradigms,” Conciliation Quarterly, Spring 1992. “Christians Must Work Against Subtle Racism,” Mennonite Weekly Review, September 5, 1991. “Ripped Off,” Intercom, January 1991. “A Psalm for the People of New Orleans,” Contact, November 1990. “Avoiding Burnout: Keeping a Vision while Volunteering,” Southern Perspectives, Spring 1990. “Behind the Bars of Racism,” Gospel Herald, April 25, 1989. “In the Presence of My Enemies,” Gospel Herald, August 23, 1988. “Promises Not Fulfilled,” Blueprint for Social Justice, September 1987 (with A. J. Gallese). a Warm Wind Blowing in Chinandega,” Christian Living, August 1986. and Joy,” Gospel Herald, July 8, 1986. “They See with New Eyes,” WMSC Voice, May 1986. “To Sit in Silence,” With, November 1984. Invited Lectures: “Homing In: The Effects of WWI on Black Women and Men,” Mansfield Library, University of Montana, February 26, 2015. “Why Ferguson Matters to Whitworth: The Importance of Black History to Us All,” Whitworth College, February 17, 2015
Presentations: “Striking at the Sacred: The Violence of Prayer, 1961-1966,” North American Religions Section, American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, November 23, 2014 “Welcome to the University of Montana: Introduction to our scholars,” moderator, Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, April 10, 2014 “Devotion Deliverance: Public Prayer As A Civil Rights Strategy,” Activism(s) in the Black Diaspora, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Santo Domingo, DR, October 31, 2013 “Invoking Crisis: Performative Prayer and the Civil Rights Movement,” North American Religions Section, American Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL, November 18, 2012 “An Innocent Exchange: Rural Hosting Programs and Civil Rights, Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Richmond, VA, October 8, 2011 “Prayer, Guns, and Civil Rights: Beyond the Grassroots-Elite Debate over Civil Rights Movement Leadership,” Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation, Seattle, WA, February 6, 2011 “More than Fresh Air: African-American Children’s Influence on Mennonite Religious Practice, 1950–1979,” African-American Religious History Section, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, October 31, 2010 “Whitening Conflicts: White Racial Identity Formation within Mennonite Central Committee, 1960-1985,” A Table of Sharing: Mennonite Central Committee and the Expanding Networks of Mennonite Identity, Akron, PA, June 2010 Chair and respondent to papers: Dr. Sheila H. Gillams (Medgar Evers College, CUNY) “From Crucifixion to Resurrection: The Activist Theology of Anna Arnold Hedgeman”; Dr. Barclay Key (Western Illinois University) “Faith and Race in 1968: Day of Reckoning in a Biracial Church”; Dr. Edward J. Robinson (Abilene Christian University) “Annie C. Tuggle: A Forgotten “Pillar” in African American Churches of Christ,” Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation, Seattle University, March 21, 2009 Demonstrators: African-American Fresh Air Children as Civil Rights
Involvement in ‘Fresh Air’ Rural Visitation Programs, 1949-1971,” Conference on the History of Religion, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, March 2006 “Transformation of databases of documents, images, sound into an integrated body of documentation for work on Mennonite social movements,” Graduate Student Panel: Presentation of Digital Projects, Electronic Resources Forum, Northwestern University, September 2005 “Engagement in the Guise of Separation: How White Mennonites Engaged African Americans from 1940 to 1969,” Mellon Dissertation Forum, Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University, May 2005 “Historians (and Other Scholars) Need Religion,” The Midwestern Region of the American Academy of Religion, DePaul University, Chicago, Ill., April 2004 “Prayers and Puppet Strings – Religious Ritual and Jewish Reconstructionist Responses to Prayer,” Chicago School of Ethnography: Past, Present, Future, Northwestern University, February 2004 Public Workshops and Panels: “The Great White Way,” Administrative Staff, College of Health Professions & Biomedical Sciences, University of Montana, January 21, 2015 “Very White: Race in Montana,” Flathead Reservation Human Rights Coalition, Inc., St. Ignatius, Montana, November 12, 2014 “The Sports Race,” DiverseU, University of Montana, November 5, 2014 “Activism and White Identity,” Student Assault Resource Center volunteers and staff, Missoula, Montana, April 22, 2014 “Movies and the ‘Magic Negro’: Race in Hollywood Films,” Black Student Union, University of Montana, February 19, 2014 “Movies and the ‘Magic Negro’: Race in Hollywood Films,” Miles City Public Library, Miles City, MT, January 21, 2014 “Racism Revealed,” YWCA, Missoula, MT, November 22, 2013 “White Privilege and Health Care,” Curry Health Center, University of