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As noted in the last issue of Intersections, Lilly contemporary religious leadership. Five other Endowment, Inc. has made a $10.5 million competitive grant programs seek to support grant to Louisville Presbyterian Seminary to significant research and writing projects by support the grantmaking and convening work both scholar/educators and scholar/pastors. of the Louisville Institute through 2006. The We hope that these research projects will grant will enable the Louisville Institute to identify and focus on compelling, important, open three of our competitive grant programs and fresh issues significant for churches and Welcome from to both academic and pastoral leaders, American Christians. Further, we expect the the Director beginning with the 2005-2006 academic year. projects to contribute in some way to the The Summer Stipend, Christian Faith and revitalization of the churches and American Welcome to the fourth issue of Life, and Religious Institutions programs will religious life. We hope that the inclusion of Intersections! Winter was busy at the now be open to pastoral leaders. The pastoral leaders in these programs will both Louisville Institute, with three Dissertation Fellowship and First Book Grant foster more such proposals and encourage major consultations and numerous Program for Minority Scholars will continue creative collaborations between academic and grant selection committees. This to focus on academics. In addition, the pastoral leaders on these topics. We want to issue of Intersections features an Christian Faith and Life and Religious support serious research that is authentically informative interview with Institutions grant programs now permit engaged with North American Christianity. University professor and Institute variable grant periods, from three months to board member, Nancy Ammerman. Our General Grant program has always been nine months in length. As our grant programs expand, open widely to academics, pastors, many of the application deadlines It is important to note, however, that the congregations, and other groups, and that have changed also. Finally, we’ve purpose of all of our competitive openness will continue. included a complete list of the grantmaking programs remains the same. Additional, more detailed information about 2003 SGPL grantees. We hope The Sabbatical Grant for Pastoral Leaders the various grant programs of the Louisville you enjoy this issue of Intersections. Program provides pastors and other religious Institute is contained in an updated brochure Jim Lewis leaders with six to twelve weeks for time apart available from our office after May 1 or on for vocational renewal and reflection on their our web site. life, ministry, and issues related to

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TABLE OF CONTENTS AN INTERVIEW WITH What we have just Louisville Institute Grant Programs NANCY AMMERMAN been talking about – Expands...... 1 the expansion of the An Interview With Nancy Ammerman is currently Professor work to eventually Nancy Ammerman...... 2 of Sociology of Religion at Boston include all of SGPL Program Grows...... 3 University, with appointments in the School American Grant Application Deadlines...... 3 of Theology and the Department of Christianity, and the 2003 SGPL Grantees...... 4 Sociology. From 1984-95, she taught the gradual expansion of InSites into American Religion .... 6 Sociology of Religion at the Candler our conversation CF&L Consultation ..... 6 School of Theology at Emory University, and partners in terms of disciplines in theology Alum News ...... 8 from 1995-2003, she was a member of the and biblical studies and pastoral practice. Winter Seminar Consultation ...... 8 Hartford Seminary faculty. She first became a Then the effort to bring the leaders and Correction ...... 10 member of the Board of the Louisville practitioners together. The focus of what we Grant-Related Publications ...... 11 Institute in January 1993 and has served in are doing has gotten much clearer – bringing Feedback ...... 11 that capacity (with one 30-month break) since together those who study and those who lead that time. Her term on the Board concludes the institutions — even as the scope has at the end of May 2004. expanded dramatically.

Question: When and how did you join Our expansion to include multiple disciplines the Board of the Louisville Institute? and multireligious expressions was really just As I recall, when you and Dorothy Bass met catching up with where the academy was. But with me, one of the things you had in mind our insistence that as academics it is possible was that the Board needed someone other to be faithful to our religious traditions – that than a historian, and someone not from LPTS, is more at the cutting edge. The difference but also someone sensitive to the evangelical that has made is something we see in our protestant experience. The Board was Dissertation Fellowship proposals this year, as beginning to get a fair number of proposals in the applicants clearly express their own faith the social sciences and wanted something of commitments. Who would have dreamed 10 an expert eye. In some ways I was the first years ago that literature, economics, move in expanding the base of the Board, and anthropology and other departments come to I was the first “non-founding” member of the us with proposals? And what they do is not Board. far-fetched; these changes are both subversive and evangelistic. Question: How would you characterize

the most important points in the The emphasis on pastoral ministry at the development of Institute during your Louisville Institute reflects a larger cultural time on the Board? Continued, page 3 2 Continued from page 2 trend, one that invites leaders in many areas to SGPL PROGRAM Changing be reflective about their professional practice. CONTINUES TO GROW Application I’m not sure we have it quite right yet, but the Deadlines Institute is to be praised for undertaking the The 2003 Sabbatical Grant for Pastoral Please note that many of our grant formidable task of figuring out how to Leaders (SGPL) competition was a application deadlines have encourage and describe the sort of wisdom resounding success. 352 completed changed. For 2004-2005, the that comes out of the pastoral life. applications were received, a 12% increase application deadlines for Louisville over 2002. Thanks to the generosity of the Question: What is your hope for the Institute grant programs are as Institute board, a record 50 grants were future of the Louisville Institute? follows: awarded. While the vast majority of grantees I hope that the Louisville Institute will were parish clergy, college chaplains, women continue to be the kind of place where people Sabbatical Grants for religious, judicatory and para-church who want to find things out about American Pastoral Leaders executives were also among those selected. religion can find information, conversation September 15 See a complete list of grantees on pages 4-5. partners — and money for research! Summer Stipend Question: How does scholarship From February 16-18, 48 of the 50 grantees October 15 contribute to the well-being of American gathered in Louisville for the annual SGPL religion? consultation. Featured speakers at the Christian Faith and Life Sometimes people from the outside can see consultation were former SGPL grantee Heidi November 15 things that those on the inside miss, the “fish Neumark (Breathing Space), St. John’s in the water” phenomenon. By taking that Collegeville professor Kathleen Cahalan Religious Institutions step back we are able to see patterns and (Projects That Matter) and Wake Forest December 1 habits that are so fully a part of people’s every University Divinity School Dean Bill Leonard day lives they can’t imagine how things could (Baptist Ways). Dissertation Fellowship be different. The sociological imagination is January 15 to help people see the patterns of their lives as Thanks to funding increases in the 2004-06 they are, not as people trapped in their grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., the First Book Grant Program for history, but to see themselves as agents Institute will award 60 SGPL grants in 2004, Minority Scholars capable of rewriting that history. When I for sabbaticals taken between March 1, 2005 February 15 describe back to the mainline their habits of and August 31, 2006. Applications will be being church, I hope it expands their mailed, and available for download from the imagination. When they say for example, web site, by May 1, and will be due by “You can’t ask people to come to church September 15. more than once a week”- they need to know that they are simply wrong – people will

Continued, page 10 BACK TO TOC 3 Rev. Dr. Robert John Andrews Dr. Paul W. Chappell Working Crystallizing Our Ministry Vision for 2005-2015 ABBATICAL RANT FOR Grove Presbyterian Church Lancaster Baptist Church 2003 S G Danville, PA Lancaster, CA Rev. Kenneth J Gray Rev. Ronald M Bagley Rev. Gabrielle Fackre Chavez All That Holy Jazz The Shape of Ministry to Post Community Visions St. Stephen’s Anglican Church Modern Generations Christ the Healer UCC Summerland, BC Canada St. Bonaventure Church Portland, OR West Seneca, NY Fr. Charles D Hall Rev. Dr. Medardo Teddy Chuquimia Faith and Science Reconciled in the Experience Ms. Gisele Bauche The Challenge of Building a Bilingual Multiethnic of Chaos Integrating Theology and Art Church St. Patrick Parish Lacombe Province of Canada Faith Bilingual Presbyterian Church Portland, MI Saskatoon, SK Canada Stockton, CA Dr. William Griffin Henderson, Jr. Chaplain William S Blackerby Rev. Kermit Culver Pastoral Recovery Mentoring Young Adults in the Renew - Retreat - Retool = Thriving Beyond the First Baptist Church Episcopal Church Mid-Point in Ministry St. Simons Island, GA 31522 The Episcopal Church in the First United Methodist Church Diocese of Alabama Bismark, ND Dr. D. Gary Hogue Birmingham, AL Christian Ethics in a Global Age of Terror Rev. Scott Dalgarno First Congregational Church, UCC Rev. Douglas W. Boquist Exploring a Call Within the Call to Write Traverse City, MI Rhythms of Renewal First Presbyterian Church New Hope Community Church Ashland, OR Rev. H. Sharon Howell Boardman, OH An Immersion to Heal the Wounded Heart Dr. Allan Figueroa Deck First United Methodist Dr. LaTaunya M Bynum Latino Religion and Spirituality: A Mature Synthesis Lawrence, KS Revitalization: From Inertia to Loyola Institute for Spirituality Invigorative - How Congregations Orange, CA Rev. Dr. Alvan Nathaniel Johnson, Jr. Find New Renewed Life Flesh on the Bones Broad Street Christian Church Sr. Rose Mary Dougherty Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Columbus, OH Discernment: A Theoretical and Experiential Bloomfield, CT Exploration Rev. Tim Canniff-Kuhn Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation Rev. Dr. Nancy Hayes Kilgore Rev. Mary Canniff-Kuhn Silver Spring, MD Lifting the Spirits: Reflections on Healing Time and Place Apart: African and West Central Behavioral Health American Outdoor Ministry Rev. Gregory P Dzwonczyk Plainfield, NH Partnership Recovering the Holiness of Time Lutheridge+Lutherock Ministries King of Kings Lutheran Church Rev. Michael Kinman Arden, NC Middletown, NJ The Gospel and a Globalized World: Connecting Local Ministry to the World Arena Rev. John F. Caplin Rev. David K. Farley Episcopal Diocese of Missouri Rejuvenation of Passion - A Journey Hanging with Jesus on the Edge of Babylon: Saint Louis, MO in Holistic Self-Leadership God’s Preferential Option for the Poor and Its Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada Implications for Pastoral Ministry Dr. Edward J. Laarman Langley, BC Echo Park United Methodist Church Sacred Storytelling: Stories and the Christian Story , CA Covenant Christian Reformed Church Rev. Linwood H Chamberlain, Jr. Appleton, WI Learning by Role Reversal Rev. Renee U. Garrett First Lutheran Church Telling the Stories of Jesus - Communicating Jesus’ Lorain, OH Message Through Contemporary Stories All Souls Congregational Church Bangor, ME BACK TO TOC 4 Intersections Volume 2, Number 1 Spring 2004

Rev. Dr. Gloria J. Tate ASTORAL EADER RANTEES Journaling the Journey P L G Presbyterian Church Of Teaneck Teaneck, NJ Dr. Joseph W. Lutz Rev. David R. Thomas Exploring Multicultural Ministry Ecclesiola Today First Baptist Church of Riverside Centenary, A United Methodist Riverside, CA Congregation Lexington, KY Dr. John W. Miller One Bread, One Body Rev. Dr. Joe M. Thomas NorthPark Presbyterian Church Understanding and Overcoming , TX Crosscultural Barriers of Ministry in Northwestern Ohio Rev. Ronald V. Mills Eagle Creek Church of the Teach Me the New Song to Sing: Resting in the Brethren Hymns of Charles Wesley Findlay, OH 45840 Ivy Creek United Methodist Church Charlottesville, VA Mr. David D. van Schaik How Christian Leadership Facilitates Rev. Dr. Nobuko Miyake-Stoner Personal and Communal Seeking Wholeness from East Meeting West Sr. Therese Ann Rich Transformation Rocky Mountain Annual Conference of the Ursuline Sisters - Apostolic Contemplatives in a L’Arche Stratford United Methodist Church Postmodern World Stratford, ON Canada Lakewood, CO Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Aurora, OH/Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown Rev. Dr. Maxine Waddell Rev. Ronalda Ay Nicholas-Frazier Canfield, OH Homecoming-Coming Home: A Time to Rest, Renew, Reflect and Research: Spiritual Renewal Theater of the Living Word Dr. James E Ross Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Living Word Community Church Strength for the Journey Decatur, GA New York, NY Madison Baptist Church Madison, GA Ms. Regina C. Wilson Rev. Troy D Overton Spiritual Renewal in a Latin A Canterbury Tale Rev. Msgr. Vincent Rush American Context Province of Our Lady of Consolation Waiting on Both Halves of My Soul Saint Joseph Parish Clarksville, IN St. Hugh of Lincoln Roman Catholic Church. Diocese of Rockville Centre South Bend, IN Rev. Jonathan Proctor Huntington Station, NY Rev. William Wylie-Kellermann Pastoral Engagement and the Integration of Worlds The Principalities and Pastoral (Self) Holy Trinity Orthodox Church (O.C.A.) Rev. Pamela Porter Snare Care St Paul, MN The Rule of Benedict: Tools for Building Holy Lives and Healthy Communities of Faith Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education Rev. James S Rauch Christ Church , MI The Music of the Spheres Covington, LA Westminster Presbyterian Church Rev. John L. Yost Escondido, CA Rev. Dr. Frederick Jerome Streets Faith Matters: Some Implications of Religious Prison Ministry and Congregational Vitality The Rev. Richard C. Rentner Pluralism for Christian Identity, Faithful Living Messiah Lutheran Church Holy Places: Designing Church Buildings that and Religious Leadership Mauldin, SC Transform Lives Yale University Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church New Haven, CT Tecumseh, MI

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Insights available CF&L CCONSULTATIONONSULTATION to be encouraged to “eat their spiritual on “InSites” vegetables.” We can no longer assume that On February 12-13, 2004, the Louisville their earlier upbringing and education have A new, web-based resource recently Institute and Lilly Endowment sponsored a taught them what they need in order to be debuted that should interest many consultation on Christian Faith and Life at nourished for human flourishing. Serene Jones readers of Intersections. “InSites into Christian Theological Seminary in American Religion” is a quarterly . The consultation focused electronic newsletter promoting the on, “The Shape of Christian Living” work and research of over twenty (borrowing a metaphor from David web sites of religion programs, Ford’s, The Shape of Living). Participants projects, and institutes (including included recent grantees from our the Louisville Institute) related to Christian Faith and Life program, ten Lilly Endowment’s initiatives in pastors from one of our Pastors Working religion. Scott Thumma of Groups or the Louisville Institute Board, Hartford Seminary and Joe Coalter and staff from the Louisville Institute and of Louisville Seminary edit the Lilly Endowment. newsletter. In addition to brief Above: Tim Clydesdale & William summaries of research and guides Craig Dykstra opened the consultation by Buchanan. Right: Serene Jones, to the web sites, each issue contains noting that the theme of Christian faith Bill McConville & Ken Carter a “Tech tips” section that identifies and life is central to the work of Lilly web resources, techniques for Endowment’s Religion Division. Discerning Internet searching and browsing, the shape of Christian living, a task shared by praised the fact that practices, rituals, and and other skills to facilitate pastors and academics alike, requires a deep patterns are now subject to substantive ministry in a technological world. exploration of the life of Christian faith lived theological reflection and noted that the “InSites into American Religion” is in specific local contexts and in response to wisdom of pastors can contribute a lot to free upon request. An abbreviated the activity of the triune God. How can these discussions. version of the e-newsletter is pastors and academics live out their distinctive distributed quarterly via email, and but similar tasks in response to this concern? Following small group sessions, in which the full Adobe pdf version is Christian Faith and Life grantees described available online for printing A lively plenary conversation followed his their grant projects and pastors responded to and distributing. For more opening remarks. Tim Clydesdale noted that them, two panel discussions explored some of information about subscribing many contemporary persons have to be taught the implications of the shape of Christian to the newsletter send an email what to hunger for in their spiritual life. living for the work of both academics and to [email protected]. Proposing the metaphor of a cafeteria buffet, pastors. In the first panel, Bill McConville he noted that college students especially have noted that David Ford’s notions of multiple overwhelmings and the shape of life

BACK TO TOC 6 accurately describe the experience of people Participants found the gathering to be Joy A. McDougall Candler School of Theology in his parish. Serene Jones suggested that this engaging and the conversations to be Emory University kind of clergy/scholar conversation could not stimulating, and they expressed the hope that have occurred ten years ago; shifts on both such consultations of pastors and academics John McFayden sides have made it possible. Ken Carter might continue. First Presbyterian Church Arlington Heights, Illinois proposed that academics and pastors really do share a common vocation, and that pastors Consultation participants included the Mark Allen McIntosh are strategically placed to translate academic following: Loyola University work to the parish. He suggested that the Scott Christopher Bader-Saye Shawnthea Monroe-Mueller notion of practices helps theology “make University of Scranton First Congregational Church sense” to a congregation. Moorhead, Minnesota Jerry Boland Holy Family Church Michael Mooty Chicago, Illinois Central Christian Church Lexington, Kentucky William Buchanan Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church Cherie Parker Nashville, Tennessee Watkins Memorial United Methodist Church Ken Carter Louisville, Kentucky Providence United Methodist Church Charlotte, North Carolina Lynn Nell Rhodes Pacific School of Religion Timothy T. Clydesdale Mark McIntosh launched the second panel The College of New Jersey Barbara R. Rossing Lutheran School of Theology at discussion by emphasizing the fact that God Judith Marie Gundry-Volf Chicago cherishes what we are doing—labor not for Yale Divinity School ourselves or our congregations but on behalf David Schreiber of “God’s project.” Shawnthea Monroe- Serene Jones Resurrection Lutheran Church Indianapolis, Indiana Mueller noted that we work with persons who Yale Divinity School are hungry for narrative and faith. She Verity Jones R. Kevin Seasoltz compared that work to a “drag line” pulled Disciples World Saint John’s University through deep prairie grass so that people Indianapolis, Indiana know both where they have been and how to M. Therese Lysaught find their way forward. Rich faith narratives University of Dayton can do the same thing; unfortunately we have let others take our stories and turn them into Bill McConville Saint Francis of Assisi Church entertainment. Raleigh, North Carolina

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Jessica Elfenbein (Dissertation The Louisville Institute’s Winter Seminar Jonathan H. Ebel Fellowship 1994) has published convened in Louisville on January 16-17, 2004. University of Chicago Divinity School The Making of a Modern City: As always, it had three main purposes in mind: Kathleen M. Garces-Foley Philanthropy, Civic Culture, and the University of California, Santa Barbara YMCA (University Press 1) to provide a hospitable, intergenerational,

of Florida, 2001). Since 1995, Dr. and interdisciplinary intellectual forum in John M. Giggie Elfenbein has taught History and which grantees can discuss their research; University of Texas at San Antonio Community Studies at the 2) to encourage scholars to think about their University of Baltimore where she scholarship in light of the needs of believers Jill K. Gill spearheaded the creation of an and their churches; Boise State University innovative interdisciplinary major in 3) to enable grantees and Louisville Institute Clarence Earl Hardy Community Studies and Civic Board members to get to know each other. Dartmouth College Engagement. She also directs the

Center for Baltimore and Regional This year the Winter Seminar included not Miranda K. Hassett Studies. Dr. Elfenbein is an editor of only grantees in the Dissertation Fellowship University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill the new anthology From Mobtown and Summer Stipend programs but also the to Charm City: New Perspectives on first three grantees in the Louisville Institute’s Matthew Hedstrom Baltimore’s Past. She has received First Book Grant Program for Minority University of Texas, Austin the Board of Regents Faculty Award Scholars. In addition, Nancy Ammerman, Robert Paul Hoch for Excellence in Public Service, David Daniels, Kathryn Johnson, and John Princeton Theological Seminary the University System of Kuykendall from the Louisville Institute Board

Maryland’s highest honor. Dr. participated. Daniel Hungerman Elfenbein is currently at work on Duke University two research projects: one on the Grantee participants were as follows: Fresh Air Fund; and the other a Sandra Lynn Barnes Darlene Hyatt Purdue University study of the German Jewish Asbury Theological Seminary experience in Baltimore for the Anthea D. Butler Derek Scott Jeffreys Jewish Museum of Maryland. Loyola Marymount University University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

David Hein (Summer Stipend María Del Socorro Castañeda Aaron Keith Ketchell Program 1997) has published University of California, Santa Barbara University of Kansas The Episcopalians from Praeger Publishers (2003). David Cortés-Fuentes Arlene L. Macdonald San Francisco Theological Seminary University of

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Margarita A. Mooney 1. What constitutes power and how does Alum Updates Princeton University religion empower and/or disempower persons Continued from page 8 and communities? Rick Nutt Kent Ira Groff (General Grant Muskingum College 2. The theme of American exceptionalism 2001) has published What Would

Kim Paffenroth was noted in several projects. How truly I Believe If I Didn’t Believe Iona College distinctive has American religious experience Anything? A Handbook for been? What could we learn by employing a Spiritual Orphans (Jossey-Bass, Margaret Kim Peterson more comparative approach? 2004), a book for strugglers Eastern University both outside and within the 3. A related set of issues concerning religious church circle. Groff, adjunct Richard Albert Pizzi communities and their identity and religious professor at Lancaster Indiana University difference and religious unity were articulated. Theological Seminary, Pa, is

Priscilla Pope-Levison also founding mentor of Oasis Pacific University 4. Several participants expressed frustration Ministries for Spiritual with the terms “liberal” and “conservative” Development, Camp Hill, Pa., Ben Witherington and the difficulty in discussing religion in whose organization received an Asbury Theological Seminary America without using them. Institute grant in 2001 for training based on his earlier The Seminar provided an opportunity for each To close with another gracious remark from book, The Soul of Tomorrow’s grantee to present his or her research project, one of the Dissertation Fellowship grantees in Church. He may be contacted to respond to another grantee’s project, and to attendance: “I thought at first that the funding at www.oasismin.org participate in a general discussion with the was the ‘main course’ and the Winter Seminar wider group about the various projects the ‘gravy’ of this fellowship. After Jon Pahl (General Grant 1997) represented. According to most participants, participating, I would say that the Seminar teaches at The Lutheran this was a valuable experience. Indeed one deserves equal billing on the menu.” It was Theological Seminary at generous participant described it as “the best indeed a wonderful intellectual feast. and has published academic conference that I have attended.” Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place In the discussion that followed, several general from Brazos (2003). themes or questions were identified which had emerged in the two discussion groups. They Dr. Anthony W. Alumkal included: (Dissertation Fellowship 1995) has published The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society LFB Scholarly Publishing (2003) BACK TO TOC 9 Intersections Volume 2, Number 1 Spring 2004

Correction AN INTERVIEW WITH argument that congregations provide the NANCY AMMERMAN anchoring in something bigger than ourselves The following grantee was Continued from page 3 that allows us to be both rooted and mobile, inadvertently omitted from the come more often, and it will not keep them grounded and plural. Our way of being General Grants list in the from doing the other good things that they do. religious asks every tradition to recognize its Winter 2003 issue of Intersections. Letting mainline leaders see other good ways partiality, which I argue is a theological and of doing church, so that they can learn from sociological strength. There is, then, an Dr. Arthur Farnsley them and choose how they want to change is implied practice of tolerance – whatever the Columbus, IN an important contribution. rhetoric to the contrary – that keeps our Rugged Orthodoxy: Conservative pluralism healthy. The other piece of the Question: Tell us about your new book, Christian Beliefs Among the American system is voluntariness, the fact that Pillars of Faith, that will be published Institutionally Unaffiliated if people do not choose to carry on the later this year. $47,500.00 tradition, no religion will survive. The It interweaves two stories. One is the story of combination of tolerance and voluntarism is how the congregational and denominational the American religious genius. form shapes what people do in their congregations in American society. There are Question: What is next on your research very predictable kinds of things we find across agenda? all kinds of traditions – they get together once How do people take their religious faith into a week for worship, they provide some kind their everyday lives? I define this quite broadly of educational resources for their children, if – practices, rituals, stories, conversations, they have even minimal resources they try to beliefs – all of the ways they take a sense of do something for the community. The other the presence of God and stories about who story that interweaves with that is how seven God is into what happens outside their distinct streams of tradition (mainline, religious communities. In order to understand conservative, African American, RC and that I want to observe people within their Orthodox, Jewish, sectarian, other world communities, so I can see what stories religions) uniquely fill the organizational form (portable narratives) they are being provided. in their own way. Each tradition takes What I hope to be able to do is have a team different pieces of the organizational template of researchers who will interview people in and fills it in their own way. So we see various places around the country, follow distinctive and multiple ways of being church. them to their churches, their schools, jobs, The third underlying current in the book is the clubs and other places where they are active question of pluralism – how do we in and observe them there. I also want to try a American society deal with the fact that we variation on the time diary technique. For have all these different traditions? It makes the about a month, at a certain time every day

BACK TO TOC 10 they will talk into a tape recorder about what Douglas Horton and the Ecumenical Give Us Your Impulse in American Religion has happened that day and how, if at all, they Theodore Trost Feedback... understand God or religious traditions and Harvard University Press (2002) practices to be a part of that. I’m not moving The Louisville Institute’s From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A away from the study of congregations, but the Material and Cultural History Intersections Newsletter is published Anne Loveland focus moves to the person in varying three times per year. Your Otis Wheeler institutional contexts, including congregations. University of Missouri Press (2003) comments or suggestions are I’d like to eventually do this cross-nationally – greatly appreciated as we continue I Believe Sweden and Germany, Italy or Spain, and Video to improve this publication. Also, especially in Africa, where different histories of Judy Lankford if you would like to update your Valentine Museum (1991) globalization, industrialization, established mailing information or be churches, etc. would allow an exploration of Reading the Bible in the Strange World of removed from our mailing list, how secularization has and hasn’t affected Medicine please let us know. Allen Verhey people in different contexts. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (2003) Write us at: Theology in America: Christian Thought RANT ELATED Louisville Institute G -R from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil PUBLICATIONS War Intersections Newsletter E. Brooks Holifield 1044 Alta Vista Road The following publications related to Yale University Press (2003) Louisville Institute grants have been received Louisville, KY 40205 since our last newsletter: The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation Baptist Ways: A History Barbara Rossing Or email us at: Bill Leonard Westview Press (2004) [email protected] Judson Press (2003) They Call Him Pastor: Married Men in Beyond Nice: The Spiritual Wisdom of Charge of Catholic Parishes Adolescent Girls Ruth Wallace Alum News... Patricia Davis Paulist Press (2003) Fortress Press (2001) Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life If you are a current or former Beyond the Ordinary: Ten Strengths of Douglas Schuurman Louisville Institute grantee and U.S. Congregations William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (2004) Cynthia Woolever have had a significant milestone or Deborah Bruce Without Benefit of Clergy: Women and achievement in your career or Westminster John Knox Press (2004) the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth- Century American Culture personal life, we want to hear Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Karin Gedge about it. Please email us at Practice in a Consumer Culture Oxford University Press (2003) Vincent Miller [email protected], Continuum (2004) Youth Ministry in Modern America: 1930 subject: “Alum News” to include to the Present your achievement in upcoming Jon Pahl Hendrickson Publishers (2000) editions of Intersections.

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