On March 2, the Sacred Roots Initiative got to hear from Glen Comiso alongside Wheaton College, Grace College, Grove City College, and George Fox University. Glen Comiso is the Executive Director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University.

Taylor University's Life Together Covenant calls the university "a covenant community of Christians . . . intentionally joining together for academic progress, personal development, and spiritual growth." This paper presented at the 2025 Intentional Christian Communities Explorer's Gathering argues for a theological understanding of Taylor University's intentional Christian community as a consecrated Christian sodality with a specific second-order commitment, a community rule, symbolic vestiture, leadership structures, and a specific charism for the larger church.

Dr. Andy Draycott considers the theme of holiness within John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

This presentation was given at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in the Patristics and Medieval History section. It describes the inspiration, origins, work, and methodologies for Sacred Roots.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss discussed how to facilitate a Sacred Roots study group at the 2024 Evangel Gathering in Atascadero, California.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss presented how friendship with contemporary peers and friendship with mentors from the past can help pastors flourish in ministry.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss gives a book talk in Taylor University's Zondervan Library about his edition of Aelred of Rievaulx's Spiritual Friendship.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss facilitates a panel discussion around Rev. Dr. Don Davis's book Black and Human: Rediscovering King as a Resource for Black Theology and Ethics. Panelists include Rev. Dr. Kwesi Kamau, Dr. Tommy Carrington, Dr. Daniel Hill, and Nancy Reyes Frazier.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss facilitates a panel discussion around Scripture engagement with Rev. Dr. Don Davis, Dr. Gregory S. MaGee, Dr. May Young, Dr. Phil Collins, Dr. Evan B. Howard, and Rev. Dr. Kwesi Kamau.

Rev. Dr. Don Davis, publisher of the Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics, gives the inaugural Milo A. Rediger lecture at Taylor University.

Rev. Dr. Don Davis, publisher of the Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics, addressed Taylor University during chapel on March 8, 2023.

Dr. Ian Vaillancourt shares his research on the Psalter a the Heritage Faculty Colloquium.

Dr. Michael T. Cooper explores the meaning of "shepherd" among the early church.

Dr. Michael Cooper, contributing editor for First Christian Voices: Practices of the Apostolic Fathers, examines theological education in the second century.

Dr. Evan Howard contributes to discussions of holiness at the 2022 Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting.

Rev. Dr. Greg Peters argues for a retrieval of monastic asceticism for Christians today.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss examines Rev. Dr. Don Davis' theology of the poor across his work. Link to PDF: https://pillars.taylor.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=sr-ets-2021

Dr. Michael Cooper, contributing editor for First Christian Voices: Practices of the Apostolic Fathers, identifies several lessons for church plant movements from the Apostolic Fathers.

Dr. Matt Friedeman discusses John Wesley's A Plain Account of Christian Perfection.

Dr. Michael Cooper identifies the character marks of faithful and fruitful leaders as demonstrated in the lives of the Apostolic Fathers.

Rev. Dr. Don Davis presents at the 2022 Evangel Gathering in Wichita, Kansas.

Rev. Bob Engel at the 2022 Evangel Gathering discusses how God tends to choose unlikely people to carry out God's work in the world.

Several Sacred Roots team members share about additional Sacred Roots resources, like the website, newsletter, and audiobooks, and Sacred Roots evaluation research.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss uses Aelred of Rievaulx's Spiritual Friendship as a case study to illustrate how spiritual classics written hundreds of years ago can still positively impact Christian leaders today.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss demonstrates how Christian spiritual classics can be an effective means for Christian leaders to continue growing in their leadership, spirituality, and friendships.

Dr. Isaac Voss summarizes the framework used to evaluate flourishing among Sacred Roots study group members.

Rev. Dr. Don Davis shares how people are often called to use unimpressive methods to accomplish God's work in the world.

Dr. Isaac Voss uses Sacred Roots' framework for human flourishing to analyze the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on congregational leaders' flourishing.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss discusses how Christian leaders can apprentice themselves to, and thus be discipled by, the likes of Augustine, John Bunyan, or Phoebe Palmer by engaging their writings.

Dr. Robert F. Lay argues the Christian church should pay attention to the Jewish spirituality found in the Apocrypha, particularly since it is a part of its own faith heritage and informs some key New Testament themes.

Dr. Robert Chao Romero and Rev. Marcos Canales discuss how Bartolomé de las Casas' teachings are important for renewing the church today.

Dr. Isaac Voss uses Sacred Roots' framework for human flourishing to evaluate congregations in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Dr. Ian Vaillancourt explores the king's attitude and actions toward the poor across the Psalms. Link to PDF: https://pillars.taylor.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=sr-ets-2021

Dr. Evan Howard examines the eighteenth-century consumer ethics of John Woolman. Link to PDF: https://pillars.taylor.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=sr-ets-2021

Rev. Dr. Greg Peters examines how wealth, poverty, and simplicity may be viewed as means of grace for the Christian. Link to PDF: https://pillars.taylor.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=sr-ets-2021

Dr. Tom Schwanda explores George Whitefield's view of wealth and poverty. Link to PDF: https://pillars.taylor.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=sr-ets-2021

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss and Jayden Wilhelm share about Sacred Roots at Taylor University's Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research Colloquium.

Rev. Bob Engel encourages church planters at the 2021 Evangel Gathering to keep moving forward to multiply. Link to Rev. Engel's book, Mere Missions: https://www.amazon.com/Mere-Missions-Moving-Forward-Multiply/dp/1629324175

Rev. Dr. Kwesi Kamau identifies apprenticeship as a historic Christian method for leadership development at the 2021 Evangel Gathering.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss and Rev. Eric Himelick talk participants of the 2021 Evangel Gathering through how to complete a Sacred Roots Thrive Plan.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss and Rev. Eric Himelick teach congregational leaders at the 2021 Evangel Gathering how to lead a Sacred Roots study group.

Rev. Dr. Don Davis encourages attendees at the 2021 Evangel Gathering to consider apprenticeship as a serious means of leadership development within the church.

Panelists David Dunham, Dr. Denise Flanders, Rev. Dr. Greg Peters, Rev. Dr. Hank Voss, and Dr. May Young share their personal habits for praying the Psalms at Taylor University's Praying the Psalms Conference.

Rev. Dr. Greg Peters discusses praying the Psalms with others at the 2021 Praying the Psalms Conference at Taylor University.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss describes how spiritual classics can connect Christians to their shared heritage at the Praying the Psalms Conference at Taylor University.

Dr. Isaac Voss, Lane Valley, and Makaela Brass analyze two low-income congregations in South Los Angeles using the Sacred Roots framework for human flourishing.

Dr. Robert F. Lay advocates for Protestants to consider the Apocrypha as a Christian spiritual classic.

At the 2020 Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, Rev. Dr. Hank Voss discusses how an evangelical return to the Christian spiritual classics can equip and empower congregation leaders to address pastoral problems they face today.

Rev. Dr. Greg Peters shares lessons he has learned from studying Thomas à Kempis and his book "The Imitation of Christ" at the 2020 Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting. Peters' book "Thomas a Kempis: His Life and Spiritual Theology" (Cascade, 2021) is available on Amazon.

At the 2020 Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, Dr. Robert Chao Romero makes the case that Bartolomé de las Casas' book "A Brief History of the Destruction of the Indies" is a spiritual classic.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss discusses Aelred of Rievaulx's view of Christian friendship.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss encourages young Christian leaders to devote energy to the spiritual discipline of spiritual friendship.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss presented this paper to the Muncie Theology Institute in Muncie, IN on December 7, 2019. Using Aelred of Rievaulx's (d. 1167) book "Spiritual Friendship" as a case study, Voss suggests retrieving the Christian spiritual classics is a way congregational leaders working among the poor can address perennial pastoral problems.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss discusses how contemporary congregational leaders can retrieve Christian spiritual classics to equip and empower the church.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss presents to the Los Angeles Urban Church Association how Christian spiritual classics can strengthen the souls of urban church planters.

Rev. Dr. Hank Voss presented at the Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary Faculty Training about using Christian spiritual classics as a means of continuing education for congregational leaders.