Discontinued Grants
Since beginning its work in late 1990, the grant programs of the Louisville Institute have consistently supported academic research and
other projects undertaken in the interest of strengthening North American church life. The focus of that work, however, and the particular
grant programs offered have shifted from time to time. Listed below are those grant programs that have been discontinued. Following the
link to each of them will take you to a listing of previous grants made in each of those grant programs.
Christian Faith & Life
The Christian Faith and Life Grant Program
From 1996-2009, the Christian Faith and Life Grant Program supported research projects by academics and pastors that attempted to
bring the resources of the ethical, liturgical, and doctrinal wisdom of the Christian faith into closer relation to the daily lives of practicing Christians,
describe more fully how the Christian faith is actually lived by contemporary Christians of various ages, circumstances, and traditions, and make
more accessible to religious believers the themes of Christian faith in relation to the realities of their contemporary lives.
Christian Faith & Life Teaching Team
The Christian Faith and Life Teaching Team Grant Program
From 1996-1998, the Christian Faith and Life Teaching Team Grant Program supported teaching teams that included both a pastor and a teaching
theologian who developed and taught in both congregational and academic settings a course of study exploring a basic theme or themes of historic
Christian faith in a way that made it more accessible in the everyday lives of contemporary church members.
General Grant
The General Grant Program
From 1990-2009, the Louisville Institute’s General Grant Program supported a limited number of individual and collaborative projects undertaken
by pastors, academics, and religious institutions. Grants varied in size and covered a wide range of projects related to the priorities of the Louisville
Institute. Some grants, for example, covered the costs of convening discussion groups of pastoral leaders and academics while others enabled an
academic to pursue (sometimes with pastoral colleagues) a research project of particular interest to the church.
Pastoral Leadership
The Pastoral Leadership Grant
From 2007-2009 the Pastoral Leadership Grant Program supported research and reflection by pastors and academics on the conditions of contemporary
Christian ministry, the nature of contemporary pastoral leadership in light of those conditions, and the character of pastoral excellence.
Religious Institutions
The Religious Institutions Grant Program
From 2001-2009 the Religious Institutions Grant Program supported research projects by academics and pastors studying how the religious core of an
institution orients and shapes its mission and contemporary practice, the impact of the institutional field within which religious organizations live, the mutual
interaction of religious institutions and American society, and religious institutional leadership.
Summer Stipend
The Summer Stipend Program
From 2001-2009 the Religious Institutions Grant Program supported research projects by academics and pastors studying how the religious core of an
institution orients and shapes its mission and contemporary practice, the impact of the institutional field within which religious organizations live, the mutual
interaction of religious institutions and American society, and religious institutional leadership.