Dr. Donald Wallenfang, OCDS

Professor of Theology and Philosophy
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313-883-8542
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Education: 
B.M. (Trumpet Performance), Western Michigan University, 2001
M.T.S., St. Norbert College, 2006
Ph.D. (Constructive Theology), Loyola University Chicago, 2011
Bio / Information: 

Dr. Wallenfang, OCDS, Emmanuel Mary of the Cross, is a Secular Discalced Carmelite and Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. He received his M.T.S. from St Norbert College and his Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago.

Wallenfang specializes in Catholic theology and philosophy, Carmelite spirituality, phenomenology and metaphysics. His research concentrates on the work of Edith Stein, Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Luc Marion, the Carmelite saints, and the New Evangelization. He teaches courses in philosophy, theology, lay ecclesial ministry, evangelization, and Catholic spirituality. His articles have appeared in Philosophy and Theology, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, The International Journal of Religion in Spirituality and Society, Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, and Pacifica, as well as in other book compilations.

He is the author of iGod: A Hidden and Fragmentary Autobiography (Cascade, 2021), Emmanuel: Levinas and Variations on God with Us (Cascade, 2021), Shoeless: Carmelite Spirituality in a Disquieted World (Wipf & Stock, 2021), Metaphysics: A Basic Introduction in a Christian Key (Cascade, 2019), Phenomenology: A Basic Introduction in the Light of Jesus Christ (Cascade, 2019), Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist: An Étude in Phenomenology (Cascade, 2017), and Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein (Cascade, 2017). Wallenfang is co-editor with John C. Cavadini for the book series, Global Perspectives on the New Evangelization (Pickwick), the first three volumes of which are entitled Pope Francis and the Event of Encounter (2018), Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue (2019), and Gift to the Church and World: Fifty Years of Joseph Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity (2021). He is a member of Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas and the North American Levinas Society.

Before entering the world of academia, Wallenfang served in full-time Catholic youth ministry for nine years.

Awards: 

Faculty Scholar Award, Walsh University (May 2019)

Awarded tenure by the Board of Directors of Walsh University, April 22, 2017

Faculty Scholar Award, Walsh University (May 2016)

Inducted into Theta Alpha Kappa National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology (April 2016)

Walsh University Outstanding Teacher of the Year Nominee (March 2016)

2015 Excellence in Education Outstanding Professor, Ohio Magazine (December 2015)

Presidential Appointment to Walsh Journey of Faith Group (November 2015)

Presidential Appointment to Walsh Legacy Group IV (December 2011)

Finalist for the International Award for Excellence, Religion in Society (December 2011)

Religion and Spirituality in Society Conference Graduate Scholar Award (February 2011)

Publications: 
MONOGRAPHS

iGod: A Hidden and Fragmentary Autobiography (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021)

Emmanuel: Levinas and Variations on God with Us (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021)

Metaphysics: A Basic Introduction in a Christian Key (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019)

Phenomenology: A Basic Introduction in the Light of Jesus Christ (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019) 

  • Reviewed by Colby Dickinson, The Heythrop Journal 62:1 (2020), 164-66.

Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist: An Étude in Phenomenology, with a Foreword by Jean-Luc Marion (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017) 

Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein, with a Foreword by John C. Cavadini (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017)

  • Reviewed by Christof Betschart, OCD, Teresianum 69 (2018/1), 271–74.
  • Reviewed by Patrick Madigan, The Heythrop Journal 29:2 (2018), 343.
  • Reviewed by Sang-il Kim, Reading Religion, Sept 2017: http://readingreligion.org/books/human-and-divine-being.
  • Reviewed by David Muthukumar S., The Evangelical Review of Theology and Politics 5 (2017), BR25–28.

Trilectic of Testimony: A Phenomenological Construal of the Eucharist as Manifestation-Proclamation-Attestation (Ann Arbor, MI: Proquest, 2012) ISBN: 978-1249055211
 

CO-AUTHORED BOOKS

Donald Wallenfang and Megan Wallenfang, Shoeless: Carmelite Spirituality in a Disquieted World (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2021)
 

EDITED BOOKS

John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang, eds., Global Perspectives on the New Evangelization, Vol. 3: Gift to the Church and World: Fifty Years of Joseph Ratzinger’s Introduction to Christianity (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2021)

John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang, eds., Global Perspectives on the New Evangelization, Vol. 2: Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2019)

  • Reviewed by Annemarie C. Mayer, Horizons, 48:1 (June 2021), 204–206.

John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang, eds., Global Perspectives on the New Evangelization, Vol. 1: Pope Francis and the Event of Encounter (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018)

  • Reviewed by Claudia Giampietro, Reading Religion, Sept 2018: http://readingreligion.org/books/pope-francis-and-event-encounter
BOOK CHAPTERS

“Nein und doch: Ratzinger’s Philosophy of Renunciation in an Augustinian Key” in Global Perspectives on the New Evangelization, Vol. 3: Ratzinger’s Renewal of Catholic Theology, ed. John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2021), 143-67

“Dialectical Truth between Augustine and Pelagius: Levinas and the Challenge of Responsibility to Superabundant Grace” in Global Perspectives on the New Evangelization, Vol. 2: Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue, ed. John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2019), 122-39

“Introduction” in Global Perspectives on the New Evangelization, Vol. 2: Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue, ed. John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2019), xv-xl

“Pope Francis and His Phenomenology of Encuentro” in Global Perspectives on the New Evangelization, Vol. 1: Pope Francis and the Event of Encounter, ed. John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018), 57-71

“Introduction” in Global Perspectives on the New Evangelization, Vol. 1: Pope Francis and the Event of Encounter, ed. John C. Cavadini and Donald Wallenfang (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018), xv-xxv

“Virtual Counterfeit of the Infinite: Emmanuel Levinas and the Temptation of Temptation” in The Html of Cruciform Love: Toward a Theology of the Internet , ed. Eric Lewellen and John Frederick (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2019), 132-150

“From Albert Einstein to Edith Stein: Understanding the Resurrection of the Body Vis-à-vis Natural Science” in Death and Anti-Death, Volume 13: Sixty Years after Albert Einstein (1879-1955), ed. Charles Tandy (Ann Arbor, MI: Ria University Press, 2016), 209-244

“Soul Power: Edith Stein’s Meta-Phenomenological Construction of the Human Soul” in Edith Stein: Women, Social-Political Philosophy, Metaphysics and Public History: New Approaches and Applications, ed. Antonio Calcagno (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2015), 167-180

“Geisteswissenschaft: Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Sketch of the Essence of Spirit” in Intersubjectivity, Humanity, Being: Edith Stein’s Phenomenology and Christian Philosophy, Mette Lebech and John Haydn Gurmin, eds. (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2015), 499-524

“Aperture of Absence: Jean-Luc Marion on the God Who ‘Is Not’” in Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher, eds., Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities (New York: Springer, 2013), 861-873
 

ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS

“Casey the Evangelist,” Mosaic (Winter 2020), 4-5

“Levinas and Marion on Law and Freedom: Toward a New Dialectical Theology of Justice,” Pacifica, 29:1 (2017), 71–98

“Face Off for Interreligious Dialogue: A Theology of Childhood in Jean-Luc Marion versus a Theology of Adulthood in Emmanuel Levinas,” Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, 50:2 (2015), 106–16

“The Heart of the Matter: Edith Stein on the Substance of the Soul,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 17:3 (2014), 118-142

“Awaken, O Spirit: The Vocation of Becoming in the Work of Edith Stein,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 15:4 (2012), 57-74

“Figures and Forms of Ultimacy: Manifestation and Proclamation as Paradigms of the Sacred,” The International Journal of Religion in Spirituality and Society, 1:3 (2011), 109-114

“Sacramental Givenness: The Notion of Givenness and its Import for Interpreting the Phenomenality of the Eucharist,” Philosophy and Theology, 22:1-2 (2011), 131-154

“Private Parts and Personalism: Questions on Human Sexual Union,” DePaul University, “Gender and Sexuality: A One-Day Interdisciplinary Symposium,” DePaul University Humanities Center (Jan2010), 35-52
 

Speaking Engagements: 
SEMINARS, WEBINARS, AND RETREATS

Seminar on Phenomenology and the New Evangelization, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, December 8–10, 2021

Webinar on Open Q&A with Dr. Wallenfang, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, December 2, 2021

Webinar on Phenomenology: Ethics and the New Evangelization, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, November 24, 2021

Seminar on Masculine Leadership, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, November 17–19, 2021

Webinar on Phenomenology: Interpretation and Paradox, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, November 11, 2021

Webinar on Phenomenology: The Natural Attitude and Givenness, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, November 4, 2021

Webinar on Methods of Biblical Interpretation, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, October 28, 2021

Seminar on Biblical Interpretation, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, October 20–22, 2021

Webinar on Genres of Scripture, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, October 14, 2021

Webinar on Interpreting Scripture in the Tradition of the Church, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, October 7, 2021

Seminar on Prayer in the Johannine, Dominican, and Carmelite Traditions, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, September 29–October 1, 2021

Webinar on Prayer in the Carmelite Tradition, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, September 23, 2021

Webinar on Prayer in the Dominican Tradition, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, September 16, 2021

Webiner on Prayer in the Johannine Tradition, Saint John Institute, Denver, CO, September 9, 2021
 

ACADEMIC PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Response to Dr. John Cavadini’s Presentation: “A New Style of Apologetics for the New Evangelization,” Enter Through the Narrow Gate Symposium: The Urgency of the New Evangelization in the Third Millennium, Westin Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, MI, October 11-12, 2019

Nein und doch: Ratzinger’s Philosophy of Renunciation in an Augustinian Key, Invited Paper, “Ratzinger’s Introduction to Christianity at 50” Conference, McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, November 4-6, 2018

Mystical Hermeneutics of Mount Carmel: Marion and Merleau-Ponty toward a Theology of Childhood, “Psychology and the Other” Conference, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, October 13-15, 2017

Maternity as Material Responsibility: Vulnerability’s Concomitance with le premier venu, The North American Levinas Society, “Levinas, the Material, and Ethics,” Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, July 24-27, 2017

Crucifixus hominum: Toward a Dialectical Anthropology through Levinas and Stein, The International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein International Conference, Portland University, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2017

Book Presentation and Display on Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein, The International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein International Conference, Portland University, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2017

From Phenomenology to Mount Carmel: Contemplative Influences on Stein’s Philosophy of Education, The Edith Stein Project Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend IN, February 10-11, 2017

Pope Francis and His Phenomenology of Encuentro, Symposium on Pope Francis’s Vision of the Renewal of the Church, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH, November 10-12, 2016

From Albert Einstein to Edith Stein: Understanding the Resurrection of the Body Vis-à-vis Natural Science, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Annual Convention, Washington, DC, September 23-25, 2016

Edith Stein’s Science of the Cross as Icon of Erotic Freedom, The Edith Stein Project Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, February 5-6, 2016

Stein and Levinas in Dialogue: Toward a New Dialectical Theology of the Human Person, International Edith Stein Conference, “Edith Stein’s Challenge to Contemporary Anthropology,” Sponsored by University of Vienna, Pontifical Institute of Benedict XVI, Heiligenkreuz (EUPHRat), IASPES, ESGÖ, KHG, Catholic Academy of Vienna, and ESGD, Vienna, Austria, October 23-25, 2015

Et tu, Brute?: Levinas’s Rejection of Marion’s ‘Analytic’ Phenomenology of Givenness, The North American Levinas Society, “Emmanuel Levinas across the Generations and Continents,” Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, July 27-30, 2015

Marion and Mysticism: From Givenness to Contemplation, “Breached Horizons: The Work of Jean-Luc Marion,” featuring Jean-Luc Marion as keynote speaker, King’s University College, London, Ontario, March 27-29, 2015

Levinas and Marion on Law and Freedom: Toward a New Dialectical Theology of Justice, The North American Levinas Society Conference, “Law in Proximity: Levinas in the Spaces of Justice,” Salisbury University, Ocean City, MD, May 18-21, 2014

Virtual Counterfeit of the Infinite: Emmanuel Levinas and the Temptation of Temptation, Ecclesia and Ethics II Conference, “Gospel Community and Virtual Existence,” Online Conference Sponsored by the University of St. Andrews, College Gate, Scotland, March 8, 2014

Face Off for Interreligious Dialogue: A Theology of Childhood in Jean-Luc Marion versus a Theology of Adulthood in Emmanuel Levinas, The North American Levinas Society Conference, “Emmanuel Levinas and Interreligious Dialogue,” Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, July 28-31, 2013

Soul Power: Edith Stein’s Meta-Phenomenological Construction of the Human Soul, The International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein International Conference, “Edith Stein: Women, Social-Political Philosophy, Metaphysics and Public History: New Approaches and Applications,” King’s University College, London, Ontario, June 12-14, 2013

Being Interpreted: Paul Ricoeur’s Critique of a Phenomenology of Manifestation, Society for Ricoeur Studies International Conference, Hyatt Regency at Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA October 22-23, 2011

For Welfare or for Woe?: Imagination and the Magic Power of Absence, Society for Ricoeur Studies International Conference, Hyatt Regency at Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA, October 22-23, 2011

Avatars of Alterity: Levinas’s Challenge to a Phenomenology of Manifestation, North America Levinas Society Annual Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, May 1-3, 2011

Figures and Forms of Ultimacy: Manifestation and Proclamation as Paradigms of the Sacred International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Chicago, IL, February 15-17, 2011

Awaken, O Spirit: The Vocation of Becoming in the Work of Edith Stein, The Edith Stein Project Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, February 11-12, 2011

Aperture of Absence: Jean-Luc Marion on the God Who “Is Not,” Book Preview Conference: Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher, eds., Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities (New York: Springer, 2011), American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 29, 2010

Poetic Existence: Pain and Trauma in the Thought of Heidegger and Levinas, Trauma Conference, “New Approaches to Trauma: Bridging Theory and Practice,” Arizona State University, New College, Phoenix, AZ, October 7-9, 2010

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Achievement of David Tracy, The Lonergan Society at Marquette University, “Lonergan on the Edge” Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, September 17-19, 2010

Imaginative Construals in the Work of Edith Stein: A Rendezvous for Evolutionary Theory and the Catholic Faith, Chronicle of Faith Conference: “Celebrating the Legacy of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition,” Immaculata University, Immaculata, PA, April 30-May 1, 2010

Body Language and the Integral Dimensions of Human Personhood, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Theological Student Conference: “Sex, Sexuality, and Gender,” Evanston, IL, April 30, 2010

Attestation Manifest: An Exploration of the Phenomenological Tonalities of Human Personhood, Zygon Center for Religion and Science, 2010 Student Symposium on Science and Spirituality, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, IL, April 16, 2010

Our Mother Who Art in Earth: Refashioning Nomenclature and Predication of Divinity, Women and Leadership Archives Lecture Series, The Gannon Center for Women an Leadership, Chicago, IL, April 14, 2010

Divine Motherhood?: Exploring Predications of Divinity, Interdisciplinary Research Symposium for Graduate Students and Alumni, Loyola University Chicago, IL, April 10, 2010

Embodied Yearning: A Phenomenological Consideration of Human Sexuality, American Academy of Religion, 2010 Midwest Regional Meeting, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, March 26-27, 2010

Thrownness and Solitude: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Poetics of Pain, The Graduate Center – City University of New York Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, “The Poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation,” New York, NY, February 25-26, 2010

Give Me Love Or Give Me Death: A Phenomenological Hermeneutic of Human Sexuality, Midwest Region of the Society of Biblical Literature Student Religious Studies Conference, Valparaiso, IN, February 12, 2010

Givenness and Responsibility: A Phenomenological Hermeneutic of the Human Person, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa 2nd International Symposium: “The Person,” Nairobi, Kenya, February 2-4, 2010

Private Parts and Personalism: Questions on Human Sexual Union, Symposium on Gender and Sexuality, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, January 28, 2010

The Givenness of Human Personhood: The Notion of Givenness and Its Bearing on (Theological) Anthropology, The Value of Human Life Conference, Institute of Bioethics, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH, October 23-25, 2009

Listen to Me: On the Intersection between the Soteriological Form of Johann Baptist Metz and Catholic Youth Ministry, Concilium Symposium: “The North-South Dialogue,” Chicago, IL, June 12, 2009

The Taboos of “Otherness”: A Study of the Ritual Purity Codes Surrounding Childbirth an Menstruation in the Book of Leviticus, American Academy of Religion, Midwest Regional Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 4, 2009

The Taboos of “Otherness”: A Study of the Ritual Purity Codes Surrounding Childbirth and Menstruation in the Book of Leviticus, Women and Leadership Archives Lecture Series, The Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, Chicago, IL, January 22, 2009
 

ACADEMIC PANEL PRESENTATIONS

Who Am I? Sexual Identity and Judeo-Christian Anthropology, Break-out Session at the “Love, Sex, Family and Culture: Fifty Years After Humanae vitae” Conference, sponsored by the Diocese of Youngstown, St. Christine Catholic Church, Youngstown, OH, November 11, 2018

Who Am I? Sexual Identity and Judeo-Christian Anthropology, Break-out Session a the “Love, Sex, Family and Culture: Fifty Years After Humanae vitae” Conference, sponsored by the Diocese of Youngstown, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Mogadore, OH, April 22, 2018

Jewish and Catholic Approaches to Dialogue, Live Dialogue with Rabbi Jon Adland of Temple Israel, Canton, OH, Philosophy/Theology Symposium, Walsh University, March 18-20, 2016

Jesuit and Carmelite Spirituality: Human Nature and the Interior Life, Philosophy/Theology Symposium, Walsh University, March 11, 2015, with Rev. Jayme Stayer, SJ

Being United to God as to One Unknown: Meditations with Nicetas Stethatos, Thomas Aquinas, and John of the Cross // “The ‘Evening Knowledge of God’: Poetics and Phenomenology in St. John of the Cross,” Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA, October 18-20, 2013

Using Media to Develop and Enhance College Students’ Reading Skills, 3T: Teaching, Techniques & Technology Conference, Clermont College / University of Cincinnati, April 28, 2012

Immigration: Myths and Realities, Walsh University, Justice for Immigrants Event, February 9, 2012

Unacknowledged Pioneers of Comparative Theology, Comparative Theology Group, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 30 – November 1, 2010

INVITED POPULAR LECTURES, INTERVIEWS, AND EVENTS

Living Shoeless, Secular Discalced Carmelites Retreat, Loyola Retreat Center, Akron, OH, May 13–15, 2022

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross and the Soul’s Deliverance, Saint Joseph Protector Secular Discalced Carmelite Community Day of Reflection, Saint Hubert Catholic Church, Harrison Charter Township, MI, March 27, 2022

Catholic Morality Today, Ss. John and Paul Catholic Church, Washington, MI, February 15, 2022

Grace Perfects Nature, Ss. John and Paul Catholic Church, Washington, MI, February 13, 2022

Contemplative Prayer in a Post-Pandemic World, Blue Water Vicariate Catechist Retreat, Holy Family Catholic Church, Memphis, MI, November 6, 2021

Online Mini-Course: “Shoeless: Carmelite Spirituality in a Disquieted World,” Hosted by Sacred Heart Major Seminary, November 29–December 20, 2020

Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy, Catechist Formation Course, Co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of Detroit and Sacred Heart Major Seminary, April 12, 2021

Into the Heart of Love, Facebook Live Interview with Patricia Cooney-Hathaway of Sacred Heart Major Seminary and Avery Burrowes of Ottawa, Canada, March 29, 2021

Where Did the Wonder Go?, Facebook Live Interview with Avery Burrowes of Ottawa, Canada, February 3, 2021

Racism, Solidarity and Pandemic, Facebook Live Interview with Avery Burrowes of Ottawa, Canada, December 7, 2020

Tota Pulchra Es: Saint Bernadette of Soubirous, Our Lady of Lourdes, and the Immaculate Conception, Online Course: “Getting to Know the Blessed Virgin Mary,” Hosted by Sacred Heart Major Seminary, November 29–December 20, 2020

Gathering Up the Fragments: Pastoral Ministry in a Postmodern World, Lay Ecclesial Ministry Speaker Series, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, November 5, 2020

Pope Francis’s Call to Missionary Discipleship: Introducing Evangelii gaudium, Online Course: “Theological Foundations of the New Evangelization,” Hosted by Sacred Hear Major Seminary, July 6–August 9, 2020

Contemplative Liturgy in a Missionary Style, Liturgical Ministers’ Morning of Reflection, St. Isidore Catholic Church, March 7, 2020

What Is Encounter? Insights from Pope Francis, Online Course: “Encountering Christ,” Hosted by Sacred Heart Major Seminary, March 2–April 20, 2020

Wallenfang Welcomed to Sacred Heart Family, interviewed by Katherine Tibai, Mosaic Magazine (Winter 2020), 20-21

Edith Stein’s “On the Problem of Empathy,” with Donald Wallenfang, OCDS, PhD, Part 2, The Curious Catholic Podcast, January 22, 2020:
http://curiouscatholicpodcast.buzzsprout.com/641164/2550331-edith-stein-s-on-the-problem-of- empathy-part-2-with-donald-wallenfang-ph-d-ocds-ep-3

Edith Stein’s “On the Problem of Empathy,” with Donald Wallenfang, OCDS, PhD, Part 1 The Curious Catholic Podcast, January 12, 2020:
http://curiouscatholicpodcast.buzzsprout.com/641164/2468516-edith-stein-s-on-the-problem-of-empathy-with-donald-wallenfang-ph-d-ocds-ep-2

Foundations of Evangelization, Part 2: Jesus the Metaphysician, “Broken and Blessed” Ministry Day, Diocese of Youngstown, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Louisville, OH, October 19, 2019

Foundations of Evangelization, Part 1: Jesus the Phenomenologist, “Broken and Blessed” Ministry Day, Diocese of Youngstown, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Louisville, OH, October 19, 2019

Called and Chosen: The Concept of Vocation in the Work of Edith Stein, Secular Discalced Carmelites Meeting, St. Sebastian Catholic Church, Akron, OH, August 11, 2019

Embodied Mercy: Eucharist, Penance, Purgatory and Indulgences, Apologetics Conference, St. Peter Catholic Church, Canton, OH, July 31, 2019

Living with Heroic Virtue, Saint Gabriel Media Ministries Retreat, St. Paul Catholic Church, North Canton, OH, July 16, 2019

Cor inquietum: Saint Augustine and Jean-Luc Marion on the New Evangelization, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, MI, June 28, 2019

Persons and Pentecost: The Concept of Spirit according to Edith Stein, Secular Discalced Carmelites Meeting, St. Sebastian Catholic Church, Akron, OH, June 9, 2019

Unpredictable Apparition: Saint Bernadette Soubirous and Our Lady of Lourdes, President’s Pilgrimage Preparatory Meeting, Walsh University, North Canton, OH, April 12, 2019

Self on Exodus: The Concept of the Soul according to Edith Stein, Secular Discalced Carmelites Meeting, St. Sebastian Catholic Church, Akron, OH, April 7, 2019

Contemplative Learning: Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Education, Benedicta Leadership Institute for Women, Walsh University, North Canton, OH, March 21, 2019

Shoeless: From Quarterback to Carmelite, Agape Latte Event, Walsh University, North Canton, OH, March 19, 2019

Redimentes holocaustum: An Introduction to the Life of Saint Edith Stein, Secular Discalced Carmelites Meeting, St. Sebastian Catholic Church, Akron, OH, February 10, 2019

From Mountain to Valley: Advent Adoration in a Missionary Mode, Little Flower Catholic Church, Canton, OH, November 28, 2018

Leaven and Light: The Call to Holiness in Pope Francis’s Gaudete et exsultate, Ashland University Newman Center, Ashland, OH, November 12, 2018

Love Mystical and Mundane: Humanae vitae into the 21st Century, Keynote Address at the “Love, Sex, Family and Culture: Fifty Years After Humanae vitae” Conference, sponsored by the Diocese of Youngstown, St. Christine Catholic Church, Youngstown, OH, November 11, 2018

Saint Paul VI and Humanae vitae in Context, Campus Ministry Club Event, Walsh University, North Canton, OH, October 22, 2018

Saint John Paul II and His Legacy of Love, Keynote Address at the “10th Annual Building a Culture of Life Youth Retreat,” St. Stephen Catholic Church, West Salem, OH, October 20, 2018

Theology of the Body as the Crimson Thread of Divine Revelation, Keynote Address at the “10th Annual Building a Culture of Life Youth Retreat,” St. Stephen Catholic Church, West Salem, OH, October 20, 2018

Love Mystical and Mundane: Humanae vitae into the 21st Century, Lifelong Learning  Academy, Walsh University, September 12, 2018

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Humanae vitae, Little Flower Catholic Church, Canton, OH, July 25, 2018

Facing the Uncanny Face of the Other: What Phenomenology Has to Do with the New Evangelization, Ministry Leadership Retreat, Walsh University, North Canton, OH, July 17, 2018

Love Mystical and Mundane: Humanae vitae into the 21st Century, Keynote Address at the “Love, Sex, Family and Culture: Fifty Years After Humanae vitae” Conference, sponsored by the Diocese of Youngstown, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Mogadore, OH, April 22, 2018

Gone Fishing: Catholicism and the New Evangelization Today, Little Flower Catholic Church, Canton, OH, April 18, 2018

Phenomenology of Childhood: An Opening, Keynote Address II at “Holy Reversal: What the Mystics Reveal about Kinder Theology” Catechist Retreat, Walsh University, North Canton, OH, March 10, 2018

Kinder Theology: Baptism and the Contemplative Genius of the Child, Keynote Address I at “Holy Reversal: What the Mystics Reveal about Kinder Theology” Catechist Retreat, Walsh University, North Canton, OH, March 9, 2018

God Questions, Campus Ministry Outreach Event, Walsh University, North Canton, OH, February 6, 2018

Purple Inn: Mary and the Advent Soul, Little Flower Catholic Church, Canton, OH, November 29, 2017

Phenomenology of the Protestant Reformation, Lifelong Learning Academy, Walsh University, September 27, 2017

Target Practice, Elevate Youth Ministries, Little Flower Catholic Church, Canton, OH, June 4, 2017

Salt of the Earth: Practicing the Art of Accompaniment, Ite Project Service Day, Wadsworth, OH, May 19, 2017

Elizabeth of the Trinity and the Cross, Meeting of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites, Akron-Cleveland Community of the Holy Family, May 7, 2017

Called and Chosen: The Meaning of Personal Vocation, Confirmation Retreat, Little Flower Catholic Church, Canton, OH, April 29, 2017

Edith Stein: The Nun of Auschwitz, Lifelong Learning Academy, Walsh University, April 19, 2017

The Faithful Mark Holy Week, interview with Amy L. Knapp from The Independent News Agency, April 9, 2017, http://www.indeonline.com/news/20170409/faithful-mark-holy-week

Cross-cultural Encounters through Interreligious Dialogue, Lifelong Learning Academy, Walsh University, April 5, 2017

Trumped by Mercy: A Hillary-ous Divine Conspiracy, Ashland University Newman Center, Ashland, OH, November 14, 2016

Pigsty: Living as Servant-Stewards in a Land of Swine, Ite Project Retreat: “Communio,” Cuyahoga Valley National Park, October 22, 2016

Surrounded by a Cloud of Witnesses: Living in Communion with the Angels and Saints, Ite Project Retreat: “Communio,” Cuyahoga Valley National Park, October 22, 2016

What Was I Made For? Discerning God’s Will and Staying the Course, Crux Meeting, Walsh University, October 13, 2016

Elizabeth of the Trinity and Her Apostolate of Contemplation, Order of Secular Discalced Carmelites Retreat, Loyola Retreat House, Clinton, OH, June 4, 2016

To Lead with Love, Elpis Lecture Series, Video Project on Servant Leadership, Co-produced with Walsh student, John Michael Bernal, Walsh University, May 19, 2016

From Sexual Masquerade to Sexual Masterpiece: Theology of the Body Unveiled, St. Barbara Catholic Church (Massillon), Young Adults Meeting, Canton, OH, March 6, 2016

Fitbits and Biebs’s Take on Religion: Staying Spiritually Fit in a Twinkie World, Theology on Tap Meeting, Walsh University, January 27, 2016

Pills and Potions: Nicki Minaj and Natural Family Planning, Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, Akron, OH, January 24, 2016

You Are Beloved, Ignite Meeting, Walsh University, January 19, 2016

I Found Myself a Cheerleader: Blessed Theotókos and the Feminine Genius, Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, Akron, OH, December 20, 2015

Good Blood: From Taylor Swift to Selfless Gift, Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, Akron, OH, October 25, 2015

Poetic Anatomy of the Eucharist: Marriage and Flesh, Lifelong Learning Academy, Walsh University, November 9, 2015

The Eucharist and Erotic Personhood, Lifelong Learning Academy, Walsh University, September 29, 2015

Yearning for God: Divine Love at the Risk of the Body, Crux Meeting, Walsh University, February 25, 2015

St. John of the Cross and the Two Dark Nights, Catholics United for the Faith, Walsh University, November 8, 2014

Death and Beyond as Understood by the Philosophers and Scientists, “Variations on Dante’s Inferno,” Lifelong Learning Academy, Walsh University, October 22, 2014

St. John of the Cross and the Dark Night of the Soul, St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, Canton, OH, April 21, 2014

What Is Scientology?, Radio interview with WAKR, 1590 AM Akron, “The Ray Horner Show,” April 8, 2014, 8:40-9:00 AM

The Two Will Become One Flesh, RCIA Meeting, St. Anthony Catholic Church, Canton, OH, February 11, 2014

Marriage and Family Life, Lifelong Learning Academy, Walsh University, October 21, 2013

An Introduction to Sacramental Theology, Lifelong Learning Academy, Walsh University, September 30, 2013

Mary and Carmelite Spirituality, Lifelong Learning Academy, Walsh University, September 25, 2013

Radical Discipleship: The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, Catholics United for the Faith, Walsh University, April 13, 2013

Empty Me: A Life Narrative, Camp Christopher, Akron, OH, Blaze Retreat, March 15, 2013

Matrimony and Family Life, RCIA Meeting, St. Anthony Catholic Church, Canton, OH, March 11, 2013

Chambers of Love: The Eucharist and Carmelite Spirituality, St. Barbara Catholic Church, Massillon, OH, January 29, 2013

Culture, Church, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Walsh University, November 14, 2012

Evangelization and Ministry in the Roman Catholic Church, Walsh University, October 25, 2012

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross: Where Faith and Reason Meet, Catholics United for the Faith, Walsh University, May 12, 2012

Why Gaudium?, Faculty May Days Meeting, Walsh University, North Canton, OH, May 10, 2012