Honors
Sagamore of the Wabash — and the long road before it
Indiana’s highest civilian honor, December 2024. Every verified award, public address, and distinguished appointment we have is listed here — and repeated in the chapter it belongs to.
- 2024Sagamore of the Wabash
- 2021Three Telly Awards
- 2020United Nations address
- 2017Museum of the Bible opens
- 2014Inaugural University Professor
- 1994NEH · Isthmia / Corinth
December 2024
Sagamore of the Wabash
The highest civilian honor of the State of Indiana, conferred by Gov. Eric Holcomb. It sits at the top of a file that already held an NEH award, an inaugural University Professorship, three Tellys, a United Nations address, and a Capitol Hill talk on public intellectuals. The honor is Indiana’s; the work was national.
Awards, addresses, recognitions
- 2024Sagamore of the WabashHighest civilian honor of the State of Indiana, Gov. Eric Holcomb, December 2024
- 2026FOX Nation series ranked #1David: King of Israel — four-part series; historian consultant and on-screen contributor
- 2022Capitol Hill addressSpoke on Public Intellectuals and the Common Good
- 2021National Press Club Vivian AwardService on the membership committee, December 2021
- 2021Three Telly AwardsInexplicable (TBN), 2021
- 2021–22Outstanding Alumni / World ChangerIndiana Wesleyan University
- 2020United Nations address14 February 2020, New York — Plan of Action to Safeguard Religious Sites
- 2018–19Lilly Fellows Book Award finalistThe State of the Evangelical Mind — one of three Lilly finalists in the IVP higher-education series
- 2015–16Writing awardsHoosier State Press Association and Indiana AP media editors
- 2014Inaugural University ProfessorIndiana Wesleyan University (founded 1920)
- 2012World Changing Faculty AwardIndiana Wesleyan University
- 2010Presidential Award of MeritIndiana Wesleyan University
- 2007–08White House OFBCI compassion roundtablesOffice of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
- 2006PBS featureLeading the Way out of Poverty, WIPB / Ball State affiliate
- 2000National Student Advocate AwardHoughton Mifflin + USC National Resource Center
- 1999NACADA merit awardVirtual Advising Link
- 1996British Library presentation on manuscriptsScriptorium years; Van Kampen Collection
- 1994National Endowment for the Humanities AwardArchaeology at Isthmia / Corinth, Greece
- 1993, 1995Professor of the Year (student body)Azusa Pacific University; Alpha Chi Outstanding Faculty, 1994
Boards & distinguished appointments
Current and recent
- Museum of the Bible
- Indiana Wesleyan University
- Lumen Research Institute
- Religion News Service
- Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale
- Christianity Today
- Christian Scholar’s Review
- Sagamore Institute
- Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
- Excelsia College (Australia)
- Waverley Abbey College (UK)
- Africa New Life (Rwanda)
- Changing Destiny (Asia)
- Bible Journey
- National Press Club
- Tyndale House, Cambridge (former honorary research associate)
- Baylor ISR (former senior fellow)