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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.
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 detailed listing of published works, go to
www.brucegourley.com/writings
Books:
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).
Upcoming Books: Diverging
Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War
(Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2011)
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 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)
Tommy
Douglas: Baptist Champion of Freedom," The
Whitsitt Journal (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 (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) (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 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 2007 - present
Fellowship of Baptist Historians
Secretary 2009 - present
Council of Advisors 2007 - present
Yellowstone Country Regional Tourism Board, Montana
Board of
Directors, 2007
Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society
Board of Directors 2006-present
Georgia Baptist Historical Society
Executive Committee 2006-2008
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Coordinating Council, West
Region, 2009-present
SELECT WEBSITES
MANAGED
The Center for Baptist Studies
formerly of 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
SELECT WEBSITES
OWNED
Yellowstone Net
The leading commercial Yellowstone web site, providing Yellowstone
National Park information and reservations assistance since
1997.
Park Reservations
Providing information and reservations assistance for U.S. national parks.
Montana History
Chronicling the history of Big Sky Country.
Discovering Colorado
A Colorado tourism site.
SellHomesHere.Com
A For Sale By Owner real estate site.
Climate Change An
online guide to Climate Change.
Bedrooms.Net A
bedroom furniture catalog site.
BaptistLife.Com
Discussion forums, news and information for Baptists worldwide.
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.
REFERENCES
Dr. Pamela Durso, Executive
Director, Baptist Women in Ministry, Atlanta, GA, 31141-1294. Telephone:
(404) 642-0078, E-mail:
pamdurso@gmail.com
Dr. Kenneth Noe, Draughon
Professor of Southern History, Department of History, Auburn University,
AL,
36849-5207. Telephone: (334) 844-6626, E-mail:
noekenn@auburn.edu
Dr. Wayne Flynt, Professor Emeritus, Department of
History, Auburn University, AL, 36849-5207.
E-mail:
flyntjw@gmail.com
Dr. David Carter, Associate Professor of History,
Department of History, Auburn University, AL, 36849
5207. Telephone: (334)844-6859. Email:
cartedc@auburn.edu
Dr. Walter Shurden, Retired, Callaway Professor of
Christianity and Chair of the Roberts Department of
Christianity, Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207. Email:
shurden_wb@mercer.edu
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