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6251 Pearl
Drive, Manhattan, Montana 59741
Phone: (406) 599-1754
Web Site:
www.brucegourley.com
Email:
mail@brucegourley.com
CURRENT AND RECENT
POSITIONS
Executive Director,
Baptist History & Heritage Society
Online Editor,
Baptists Today
Internet
Strategist/Consultant/Marketer and
Writer
Owner,
Various web sites
including
Yellowstone Net and
Montana History Net
Outdoor/Nature Photographer
EDUCATION
Ph.D., American History,
Auburn University, 2008
Dissertation: Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War
Secondary Emphases: Islamic History, Archival Studies
Primary Advisors:
Kenneth Noe, Wayne Flynt
Master of Divinity, Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, 1992.
Bachelor of Arts, Christianity and
English,
Mercer University, 1988.
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Interim Director.
The Center for Baptist Studies, Mercer University, 2007 to 2009
Associate Director.
The Center for Baptist Studies, Mercer University, 2004 to 2007
Graduate Teaching Assistant. IT Specialist, History Department,
Auburn University
History Department, 2003 to 2004
Instructor, Church History. Yellowstone Baptist College, Billings,
Montana, 1995 to 2002
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
For a more detailed listing of published works, go to
www.brucegourley.com/writings
Books:
Diverging Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War
(Mercer University Press,
2011)
Images of America: Manhattan, Belgrade, Amsterdam and Churchill and
Amsterdam (Montana)
(Arcadia Publishing, 2011)
A Capsule
History of Baptists
(Atlanta, Georgia: Baptist History
and Heritage Society, 2010)
Leading the Way for 200 Years: The Story of the First Baptist Church of
Huntsville, Alabama
(Atlanta, Georgia: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2009)
The
GodMakers: A Legacy of the Southern Baptist Convention?
(Franklin, Tennessee: Providence House Publishers,
1996).
Chapter Contributions:
“Baptist Models of Polity: An Historical Overview,” in Walking Together:
The Struggle of
Baptists with Polity in the 21st Century. Richmond: Center for
Baptist Heritage and Studies,
2005.
“A Brief Survey of Four Centuries of Baptist Mission Quest,” in
On Mission With God: Free and
Faithful Baptists in the Twenty-First Century, Pamela R.
Durso, editor. Atlanta, Ga.: Baptist
History & Heritage Society, 2011.
General Editor:
Baptist History & Heritage Journal, 2011 to present.
Editor:
Baptist Studies Bulletin,
2004 to present
Online Editor:
Baptists Today, 2003 to
present
Editor:
Yellowstone Net Newspaper, 1997 to 2011
Columnist: Baptists
Today, 2003-2004, "The Lighter Side"
Select Papers and Articles: Various, including the
following:
* Daily
articles,
Baptists and the American Civil War:
In Their Own Words Digital
Project, 2011-present
* Monthly articles, “Baptists and the American
Civil War,” Baptists Today,
2011-present
* Monthly articles, "Why?", Baptists Today, 2012-present
* Editorials (Thrice annually),
Baptist History & Heritage Journal,
2010-present
Monthly editorials,
Baptist Studies Bulletin,
2005-present
"A New American God: Eight Decades in the Making,"
Baptist Studies Bulletin, February-
November, 2012
"Tommy
Douglas: Baptist Champion of Freedom," The Whitsitt Journal
(Fall 2009)
"The Significance of Local Baptist Church History: The 200th
Anniversary of the First Baptist
Church of Huntsville, Alabama" -
Baptist History and Heritage Journal (Summer/Fall 2009)
"Celebrating 400 Years of Being
Baptists," A Series published by Baptist History and Heritage
Society (2009)
"The Discipline of Eating"
- VISIONS, Georgia Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (June/July 2009)
"Early English Baptists" -
Baptist History and Heritage Journal (Winter 2009)
"Old Wines in New Wineskins: the First
Amendment and the Internet - Baptist History and
Heritage Journal (Summer-Fall 2008)
"Maybe
It's Time to Dust Off John Leland" - Baptist History &
Heritage Journal (Spring 2008)
"The Christian Index and the American Civil
War" - Visions Journal (2007)
"How Do We Tell the Generations Following of
What Happened?" - Logsdon Window Journal
(2006)
"These Days Are Fraught With Many Blessings:
The World of Julia Stanford" - Visions Journal
(2006)
"The Baptist Light: Free and Fragile"
- Baptist History and Heritage Journal ( Winter 2006)
"Baptist Missions in Recent Decades:
Laity Involvement" - Baptist History & Heritage Journal
(Spring 2006)
"John Leland: Evolving Views of Slavery, 1789-1839" - Baptist
History & Heritage Journal
(Winter 2005) (Winner of
The 2006 Norman W. Cox Award for the
Best Article Published in
Baptist History and Heritage)
"Yellowstone Held Hostage by
Million-Dollar Cheeseburgers" - National Forest Council
(2001)
Monthly articles in the
Baptist Studies Bulletin,
2005 - present
Other articles
published online
Book Reviews: Published in a
variety of periodicals, including:
Journal of Religion
Journal of Church and State
Journal of Appalachian Studies
Baptist Studies Bulletin
Baptist History & Heritage
Baptists
Today
Photographs: Various
photographs published,
including in/by:
Georgia
Conservancy
Our
State Magazine
For
the Love of Dogs
24/7
North Carolina
Bruce's photography is for sale at
Fine Art America
CONFERENCES,
SEMINARS AND OTHER SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Bruce speaks at many events
annually. Representative of his speaking engagements are:
* Baptist history and church history conferences and seminars
* Americans United conferences
* Baptist denominational annual conferences: national,
regional, state, local
* Regional Montana history consultations
* Local church events
* Religion and technology consultations
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES and AWARDS
Member,
American Historical Association
Member,
American Society of Church History
Member.
Baptist History and Heritage Society
Member,
Fellowship of Baptist Historians
Secretary 2009 - present
Member,
Montana Historical Society
Member,
Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society
Board of Directors 2006-present
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Coordinating Council, West
Region, 2009-present
(Previous Member) Georgia Baptist Historical Society
Executive Committee 2006-2008
(Previous Member) Yellowstone Country Regional Tourism Board, Montana
Board of
Directors, 2007
Recipient, Carolyn Blevins Meritorious Service Award, Baptist
History & Heritage Society, 2005
Recipient,
Norman W. Cox Award "For Best Article Published by the Baptist History &
Heritage Society
in 2005" for his article entitled
"John Leland: Evolving Views of Slavery, 1789-1839"
SELECT WEBSITES
OWNED OR MANAGED
BaptistLife.Com –
Discussion forums, news and information for Baptists worldwide
Baptist History and Heritage Society
– A
national organization
Baptist
Women in Ministry –
A national organization
Baptists and the American Civil War
–
Daily digital journal of the Baptist experience during the Civil War
Baptists Today
– The
nation's only autonomous Baptist news journal
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship West
– A
regional organization related to CBF National
Montana History Net –
An introduction to the History of Montana
Wall of Separation
– The
history of church state separation in America
Yellowstone Net
– The leading commercial Yellowstone web site, established in 1997
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