Welcome to my academic portfolio.  Click on the image below to view a short introductory video.

A new, dual-credit e-learning course exclusively for Lutheran High School students launches August 30th.  The course, designed and taught by Dr. Jim Burkee, allows Lutheran High School students to earn college credit while fulfilling high school requirements.

View a welcome by Rev. Dr. Patrick Ferry, President of CUW

and a sample lecture, by Dr. John Horgan

My new book, Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod: A Conflict that Changed American Christianity will be available this coming Spring, 2011 by Fortress Press.  A recent review calls it “the definitive scholarly study” of this era in the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod.