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6251 Pearl Drive, Manhattan, Montana
59741
Phone: (406) 599-1754
Web Site: www.brucegourley.com
Email:
gourley_bt@mercer.edu or
mailbox2006@brucegourley.com
CURRENT POSITIONS
Internet
Strategist/Marketer and
Writer
Owner,
Various web sites including
Yellowstone Net and
Montana History Net
Interim Director,
The Center for Baptist Studies, Mercer University
Editor,
Baptist Studies Bulletin
Online Editor,
Baptists Today
Outdoor/Nature Photographer
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (ABD), American History,
Auburn
University. Degree expected in 2008.
Dissertation: Baptists in
Middle Georgia During the Civil War
Secondary Emphases:
Islamic History, Archival Studies
Primary Advisors:
Ken Noe, Wayne Flynt
Master of Divinity,
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1992.
Bachelor of Arts, Christianity and
English,
Mercer University, 1988.
SELECT WEBSITES OWNED
Yellowstone Net -- The leading non-government
Yellowstone web site, providing Yellowstone National Park
information and reservations since 1997.
Park Reservations -- Providing reservation information for major national
parks in the United States
Montana History -- Chronicling the History of Big Sky Country
Discovering Colorado -- Colorado tourism site
SellHomesHere.Com -- FSBO Real Estate site
Climate Change -- Guide to Global Warming
Bedrooms.Net -- Bedroom Furniture Catalog
BaptistLife.Com -- Discussion Forums, News and Information for
Baptists worldwide
WEBSITES MANAGED
The Center for Baptist Studies -- Mercer University, Macon,
Georgia
Baptists Today -- The nation's only autonomous Baptist news
journal
Baptist History and Heritage Society -- headquartered in Atlanta,
GA
William Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society -- preserving Baptist
history
First Freedoms -- Protecting America's First Amendment
Yellowstone Innovators -- a ministry in Yellowstone National Park
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Interim Director.
The Center for Baptist Studies, Mercer University, 2007 to the present.
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.
MINISTERIAL
EXPERIENCE
Director, Baptist Campus Ministries.
Yellowstone Southern Baptist Association, Billings, Montana, 1993 –
2002.
Campus Minister Intern. Georgia
Baptist Convention,
Shorter College,
Rome, Georgia, 1990 – 1991.
Campus Minister
Intern. Kentucky Baptist Convention, Jefferson Community College, Louisville, Kentucky,
1988-1990, 1991-1992.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
/ EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
For a detailed listing of published works, go to
www.brucegourley.com/writings
Book:
The GodMakers:
A Legacy of the Southern Baptist Convention? (Franklin,
Tennessee: Providence House Publishers, 1996).
Editor:
Baptist Studies Bulletin, 2004 to present.
Online Editor:
Baptists Today,
2003 to present.
Editor:
Yellowstone Net Newspaper, 1996 to present.
Columnist: Baptists
Today, 2003-2004, "The Lighter Side"
Articles: Various,
including the following:
"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 (2006)
"Baptist Missions in Recent Decades: Laity Involvement" - Baptist
History & Heritage Journal (2006)
"John Leland: Evolving Views of Slavery, 1789-1839" - Baptist
History & Heritage Journal (2005)
"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 Church and State
Baptist Studies
Bulletin
Baptists Today
Journal of Appalachian Studies
Photographs: Various
photographs published, including in/by:
Georgia Conservancy (July 2007)
Our State Magazine (June 2007 / July 2007)
For the Love of Dogs (2006)
24/7 North Carolina (2004)
PROFESSIONAL
/ PUBLIC SERVICE AFFILIATIONS
Montana Historical Society
Baptist History and Heritage Society
Council of
Advisors
Fellowship of Baptist Historians
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society
Board of
Directors 2006-2008
Georgia Baptist Historical Society
Executive
Committee 2006-2008
American Society of Church History
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