$140,816 in Conant Grants March 17, 2016 News PDPhoto.org Adapted from the Office of Public Affairs Nineteen grants for a total of $140,816 have been awarded through the Conant Grants for the 2016-17 academic year. Conant Grant funds support research, writing, and course development undertaken by faculty members at recognized Episcopal seminaries in the United States. The funds are derived from a trust fund established by William S. and Mary M. Conant in 1953. The Conant Grant committee has five members: Joseph Ferrell, Diocese of North Carolina Dr. Fredrica Harris Thompsett, Diocese of Massachusetts Dr. Steven Nishibayashi, Diocese of Los Angeles The Rt. Rev. Dabney Smith, Diocese of Southwest Florida The Rt. Rev. Brian Thom, Bishop of Idaho The 2016-17 Conant Grants, sorted by ascending amount, were awarded to: The Rev. Susanna Singer, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, “Community Organizing and Theological Education,” $1,675 The Rev. Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, General Theological Seminary, “The Dream of the Priest,” $1,841 The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, PhD, Virginia Theological Seminary, “An Engagement with the Work of Martyn Percy,” $4,291 The Rev. Clair McPherson, General Theological Seminary (Develop a seminary course abroad, offering credit in Ascetical Theology, Church history, or systematic theology, during a two-week tour of historical sites, cathedrals, and monasteries in France, with a special focus on the south), $4,745 Dr. Jennifer Snow, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, “Making One Flesh: Sexuality, Marriage, and Mission in the Global Church,” $4,850 The Rev. Melody D. Knowles, PhD, Virginia Theological Seminary, “Writing Workshop for Psalms Commentary Series,” $4,855 The Rev. Jane Lancaster Patterson, Seminary of the Southwest, “Developing a Faithful Christian Practice,” $4,950 Suzanne R. Ehly, Episcopal Divinity School, “Unleashing the Voices of First Nations and Settler Anglicans: Healing Voices and Imaginations, Strengthening Witness and Leadership,” $5,500 Dr. Pui Lan Kwok, Episcopal Divinity School, “Empire, the New Testament, and Early Christianity,” $5,525 Dr. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Seminary of the Southwest, “Anglican Divines and the Jewish Tradition: Resourcing an Anglican Theology of Religions,” $5,700 The Rev. Dr. Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Claremont School of Theology, “Love and Power: Racial Justice and Spiritual Formation,” $6,250 Dr. Hannah Matis Perett, Virginia Theological Seminary, “Medevial Spirituality and the Modern Church: Mysticism and Pilgrimage,” $6,700 The Rt. Rev. James Tengatenga, University of the South School of Theology, “The East African Slave Trade and the Church,” $6,825 The Rev. Michael Battle, General Theological Seminary, “Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Spiritual Life and Practices,” $10,000 The Rev. J. Barney Hawkins, PhD, Virginia Theological Seminary, “Book: Sacred Space,” $10,784 The Rev. Justin Lewis-Anthony, PhD, Virginia Theological Seminary, “The Great Wordlessness: Etty Hillesum and Hieronymus Bosch,” $11,450 The Rev. Canon Dr. John Ashley Null, Trinity School for Ministry, “Cranmer’s Great Commonplaces,” $14,895 The Rev. Robert S. Heaney, PhD, Virginia Theological Seminary, “The Mission of God in Post-Colonial Perspective,” $14,980 Dr. James F. Turrell, University of the South School of Theology, “Documentation of Patterns of Worship across the Episcopal Church in the United States,” $15,000 Contact | Covenant | Facebook | RSS | Subscribe | Twitter
