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Intersections Volume 2, Number 1 Bringing news and resource information to those seeking to Spring 2004 enrich the religious life of American Christians. LOUISVILLE INSTITUTE GRANT PROGRAMS EXPAND 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 Boston 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 T HE LOUISVILLE INSTITUTE The Louisville Institute is a Lilly Endowment Program for the Study of American Religion based at Louisville Seminary. BACK TO TOC Intersections Volume 2, Number 1 Spring 2004 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.

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