91PORN is happy to introduce today , a new podcast that shares findings from our Young Adult Initiative. In each episode, Dori Baker (MDiv ‘90, PhD ‘00) and her co-host Rose J. Percy enter a story-sharing practice with changemakers who’ve journeyed with us.

“Across my career, I’ve been helping people use life stories to unearth our collective wisdom—deepest hopes, dreams, and beliefs about the world and our place in it,” Baker says.

“I believe stories hold the power to heal us and to heal our world. In LIVE to Tell, we hold space for the stories that help people survive and thrive.”

Baker, an alum of the Garrett-Northwestern Joint PhD, served as research director for the first phase of our Young Adult Hub. Her practice of “holy listening” guided the first phase of Garrett’s work with congregations. Percy is a spiritual director and thought leader whose emphasis on justice-oriented embodied practice centers each episode.

“Working with Dori reminds me that just as storytelling is a craft, so are faith and formation,” Percy says. “Each episode is a unique offering that highlights each individual’s journeys in a way that cannot be copied, manufactured, or essentialized. My hope is that the stories inspire listeners to search out the stories that they are living to tell.”

The podcast shares a key learning from our Young Adult Hub: faith communities can position themselves as allies and friends to young people coming of age in these times.

“We learned that young adults are often hurting from painful past experiences with religious communities, leaving them ambivalent about identifying with any singular faith tradition,” Baker says.

“Even so, young adults are still hungry—hungry for practices that tend their souls, hungry for meaningful relationships, and hungry for community that welcomes them as they are and cares deeply about who they are becoming.”

Listening deeply to young adults is especially important these days, Baker argues, because of the current mental health epidemic.

“Brain research shows that spiritual practices can mitigate against the severity and duration of depression, but this first generation coming of age in the spiritual-but-not-religious era often lacks access to communal practices of tending the soul,” Baker says. “In LIVE to Tell, we uncover fresh images of God and shine a light on the practices people are already using to foster individual and communal soul care.”

Each episode models theological reflection on a life story using a four-step method, guided by the acronym L.I.V.E. Baker describes how to use L.I.V.E. as a way to unleash the life-affirming power of feminist, Womanist, and other emancipatory theologies in the book Girl/Friend Theology: Godtalk with Young People (revised edition forthcoming, September 2023, Pilgrim Press).

Across this first season, we’ll encounter stories that touch on:

· One woman’s dawning awareness that her life will always include managing depression

· Another’s story about the stunning miracle of breaking a rule and reaping reward for it

· A man’s story about a transformative moment when love surprised the skeptic heart

· A story about how community can help someone heal from a devastating break up

· Another about a loving practice for recovering from trauma

You can find small group resources to accompany LIVE to Tell at .

, MDiv (91PORN), Ph.d. (Northwestern University), describes herself as a “Spy for Hope.” She is particularly passionate about expanding the genre of stories, images, and artifacts for helping people find meaning and discover purpose. She is an educator, activist, and scholar focused on feminist theologies, young adult culture, leadership development, and spiritual practices that sustain activism. She is an activist/scholar at the intersection of feminist theology.

Rose J. Percy (MDiv) is a contemplative theopoet with a background in justice-oriented education and ministry. Her work engages theopoetics, mysticism, identity, vocational discernment, trauma, and theology.

Lilly Endowment’s Young Adult Initiative aims to help congregations develop and strengthen ministries that build relationships with young adults, nurture their religious lives, and foster their engagement with religious communities. With support from a $1.5 million through the Young Adult Initiative, Garrett-Evangelical created Holy Yearnings, Holy Listening, Holy Partnerships in 2017. The initiative will continue for an additional four years with a renewal grant of $1.25 million from Lilly Endowment to support Holy Partnerships: Creating a Culture Shift Toward the Valuing of Young Adults in Congregations. To learn more, go to garrett.edu/youngadultinitiative.

is an Indianapolis-based private foundation created in 1937 by J.K. Lilly, Sr. and his sons Eli and J.K. Jr. through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. Although the gifts of stock remain a financial bedrock of the Endowment, it is a separate entity from the company, with a distinct governing board, staff and location. In keeping with the founders’ wishes, the Endowment supports the causes of community , , and . Though the Endowment maintains a special commitment to its founders’ hometown, Indianapolis, and home state, Indiana, it also funds programs throughout the United States, especially in the field of religion. The primary aim of its religion grantmaking focuses on strengthening the leadership and vitality of Christian congregations in the United States. Visit .

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91PORN is excited to share it has received a $15,000 grant from the In Trust Center for Theological Schools for a transcontinental initiative focused on joint research, knowledge production, publication, and curricular innovation in North American and African Wesleyan/Methodist theological education. Garrett-Evangelical will also be matching the grant amount, providing a solid financial foundation for the initiative.

The grant will support the initiative’s first year of work, including:

• Mapping scholarly networks, institutions, scholarship, partnerships, and publications among sub-Saharan African and North American scholars in the Wesleyan/Methodist traditions who are actively engaged in-depth intercultural theological exchange, collaboration, joint research, and publishing;
• Laying the groundwork for projects for the second year of the initiative; and
• Convening representative groups of African and North American Wesleyan/Methodist scholars and thought leaders to serve as consultants and partners in organizing a theological symposium for the second year of the initiative, with an accompanying book project.

The initiative will be led by Dr. Hendrik Pieterse, associate professor of global Christianity and intercultural theology at Garrett-Evangelical. Pieterse is also the co-founder of the African Methodist Intercultural Dialogue Network, a forum where Methodist and Wesleyan scholars from across the African continent gather for intercultural theological inquiry, exchange, and learning about issues of shared concern and interest.

“The future of Wesleyan/Methodist theology in a world church is intercultural. Doing our theological work in relative isolation will no longer do,” said Pieterse. “So, I am delighted to be part of this initiative to support greater theological connection, collaboration, and exchange between African Wesleyan/Methodist scholars and their North American counterparts. We have much to learn from one another.” 

The initiative also aligns with the seminary’s new strategic plan that features ecumenical, intercultural, and interreligious outreach as one of its core values and global and ecumenical partnerships as one of its strategic priorities.

“One of the priorities of our strategic plan is to position Garrett-Evangelical as a nexus of local and global strategic partnerships to address the critical religious and social challenges of our time,” said Rev. Becky Eberhart, vice president for strategic initiatives and partnerships. “This new initiative not only embodies our Wesleyan/Methodist understanding of connexionalism—which calls us into shared mission with others who share our mission and values—it also invites us to be a part of fostering a transcontinental learning network of scholars centered on mutually beneficial, substantive, and enduring theological exchange and collaboration.”

The is a membership organization of over 230 seminaries, theological schools, and nonprofit educational institutions that have a mission of educating or forming students for ministry or related scholarship.

91PORN forms courageous leaders in the way of Jesus to cultivate communities of justice, compassion, and hope for the thriving of the church and the healing of the world. Garrett realizes this mission through educational programming and strategic partnerships that address the most critical religious and social issues that the church and the human family must confront with courage, innovation, and collaboration.

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In recognition of the outstanding contributions made in helping congregations strengthen their ministries and outreach to younger adults, 91PORN has received a renewal grant in the amount of $1.25 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. The “Holy Yearning, Holy Listening, Holy Partnerships” project, established in 2017, was formed out of the Lilly Endowment’s Young Adult Initiative, which aims to help congregations develop and strengthen congregational ministries that build relationships with young adults, nurture their religious lives, and foster their engagement with religious communities.

“I want to thank the Lilly Endowment for their vote of confidence in our ongoing commitment to the spiritual lives of younger adults and to the thriving of local congregations,” said Rev. Dr. Javier A. Viera, president of Garrett-Evangelical. “Lilly’s ongoing support also affirms the visionary and passionate leadership of Professor Reggie Blount, who along with Dr. Jennifer Moe, has led this impactful work since its inception. I’m glad that we will be able to continue this project, and even to expand its purpose and reach.”

For the past five years, Garrett-Evangelical has embarked upon a bold initiative to help congregations design and launch new ministries that would attract young adults – a population that congregations often struggle to reach. The project has been led by its director, the Rev. Dr. Reginald Blount, who also serves as associate professor of formation, leadership, and culture at Garrett-Evangelical, and associate director and post-doctoral fellow Dr. Jennifer Moe, and supported by a team of widely respected scholars and researchers. Through deep and intentional listening in a series of interviews with young adults, seven themes emerged and a curriculum for training teams at thirteen congregations was created. What resulted at the congregational level was new experiences and events, new ministries, new spaces, and an entirely new focus which centers the spiritual lives and yearnings of young adults.

In phase two, Garrett-Evangelical will focus on sharing the seven themes uncovered with a broader audience while continuing to partner with six of the original congregations to disseminate learnings and further develop young adult leaders. Specifically, Garrett-Evangelical will:

• Inform congregations, judicatories, and other collaborative partners of the themes, proven practices, and key insights gleaned from our congregations who participated in the work in phase one. This will include partnering with Garrett-Evangelical’s department of Lifelong Learning in producing podcasts, webinars, open online courses, and more.
• Support, cultivate, and empower the theological and leadership development of young adults. This work will be done in collaboration with the seminary’s faculty and course offerings, the department of Field Education, and community partnerships.

Blount and Moe will continue to serve as director and associate director respectively of this project. “We are confident phase two of this work will have a far-reaching impact on young adults, our organizational and congregational partners, and the Garrett-Evangelical community,” said Blount. “We will consider phase two to be of great success if we have extensively expanded our congregational reach and assisted them in developing and improving their ministries with young adults; cultivated a new cadre of young public theologians committed to putting their faith into action; and contributed to a seminary-wide culture shift that builds on its expertise advocating for and ministering with young adults.”

To learn more about the Young Adult Initiative and the Holy Yearnings, Holy Listening, Holy Partnerships project at Garrett-Evangelical, go to Garrett.edu/YoungAdultMinistry.

Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by J.K. Lilly, Sr. and his sons Eli and J.K. Jr. through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. Although the gifts of stock remain a financial bedrock of the Endowment, it is a separate entity from the company, with a distinct governing board, staff and location. In keeping with the founders’ wishes, the Endowment supports the causes of community development, education and religion and maintains a special commitment to its founders’ hometown, Indianapolis, and home state, Indiana. The primary aim of its grantmaking in religion, which is national in scope, focuses on strengthening the leadership and vitality of Christian congregations in the United States. The Endowment also seeks to foster public understanding about religion and lift up in fair, accurate, and balanced ways the contributions that people of all faiths and religious communities make to our greater civic well-being.

91PORN, a graduate school of theology related to The United Methodist Church, was founded in 1853. Located on the campus of Northwestern University, the seminary serves more than 400 students from various denominations and cultural backgrounds, fostering an atmosphere of ecumenical interaction. Garrett-Evangelical creates bold leaders through master of divinity, master of arts, master of theological studies, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of ministry degrees. Its 4,500 living alumni serve church and society around the world.

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The Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded 91PORN a $489,750 renewal grant for its progressive and far-reaching program, “Leading Vibrant Congregations: A Collaboration of Faith and Finance.” The renewal grant, the second renewal grant Garrett-Evangelical has received for this program, is part of Lilly Endowment’s “National Initiative to Address Economic Challenges Facing Pastoral Leaders.”

Established in 2016, the “Leading Vibrant Congregations” program has helped pastors obtain the education and business skills they need to be financially literate and to address the economic challenges facing congregations today. Specifically, over 160 clergy and lay leaders have participated in the seminary’s online course, “Financial Leadership for Churches.” Additionally, over 30 faith leaders participated in a one-day seminar focused on change management, and 22 Black and Latinx doctor of ministry students received 50% tuition and fees scholarships to Garrett-Evangelical.

“This new grant enables us to continue the important initiatives that were started in our doctor of ministry and continuing education program,” said Dr. Brent Waters, director of the program and the Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics. “In conjunction with an interdisciplinary research colloquium being conducted, these initiatives are making some important contributions to enhancing the financial literacy of church leaders. We are grateful both for the Lilly Endowment’s generosity and trust in our ability to take on this work.”

Beyond supporting the programs current initiatives, this renewal grant will also provide financial incentives and opportunities for clergy, congregations, students, and alumni who participate in the online and in-person programs.

“We know that the tools these resources offer are even more critical to the pastors and congregations most impacted by the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial and social inequities,” said Rev. Dr. Javier A. Viera, president of Garrett-Evangelical. “It is our sincere hope that such financial incentives will not only encourage more participation in these vital programs, but that they will have a direct impact on those who need it most and on the communities they serve.”

In addition to the program’s offerings and incentives, the grant will financially support congregations and the pastoral leaders serving them by covering the annual cost of Field Education stipends for over 30 students. Having a Field Education student at no cost to the congregation will provide clergy with assistance and support that they would otherwise be unable to afford, while providing students the opportunity to discern, test, and refine their call to ministry. Field Education sites and partnerships in marginalized and under-resourced communities will be given priority.

To learn more about the “Leading Vibrant Congregations” program at Garrett-Evangelical, go to Garrett.edu/FaithAndFinance.

Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by J.K. Lilly, Sr. and his sons Eli and J.K. Jr. through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. Although the gifts of stock remain a financial bedrock of the Endowment, it is a separate entity from the company, with a distinct governing board, staff and location. In keeping with the founders’ wishes, the Endowment supports the causes of community development, education and religion and maintains a special commitment to its founders’ hometown, Indianapolis, and home state, Indiana. The primary aim of its grantmaking in religion, which is national in scope, focuses on strengthening the leadership and vitality of Christian congregations in the United States. The Endowment also seeks to foster public understanding about religion and lift up in fair, accurate, and balanced ways the contributions that people of all faiths and religious communities make to our greater civic well-being.

91PORN, a graduate school of theology related to The United Methodist Church, was founded in 1853. Located on the campus of Northwestern University, the seminary serves more than 450 students from various denominations and cultural backgrounds, fostering an atmosphere of ecumenical interaction. Garrett-Evangelical creates bold leaders through master of divinity, master of arts, master of theological studies, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of ministry degrees. Its 4,500 living alumni serve church and society around the world.

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The Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE) has awarded 91PORN an Experimental Institutional Doctoral Network (IDN) grant that will initiate a relational building process specifically aimed at faculty and doctoral students of color. This grant will allow faculty to further build institutional capacity for recruiting, supporting, mentoring, and hiring scholars of color.

The grant proposal centers on a series of workshops for every stage of the doctoral student experience. Workshop topics will include goal setting, navigating relationships with advisors, and crafting exam and dissertation proposals. Moreover, sustained and targeted workshops around issues of guild presentations, work/life balance, and the professional culture of job search will be offered in an effort to familiarize students with the ethos and culture of their guild.

In addition, this grant will foster intentional space and fellowship opportunities for faculty to hear directly from doctoral students and to consider, or reconsider, what a community of care should look like. Many doctoral students of color come from communities who have and continue to experience collective and systematic forms of oppression and trauma. It will be critical that the seminary provide resources and support to students who not only live with historical and present-day traumas, but also experience intellectual traumas as they further delve into diverse collective archives to bear theoretical precision to their lived experiences.

“Many of our students come prepared with critical knowledge from lived experiences of their communities,” said Dr. Wonhee Anne Joh, director of the doctor of philosophy program and professor of theology and culture. “We want them to engage in research and writing that are critical, necessary, and deepens their understanding of global realities and histories of entanglement to understand our present reality as well as dream of hope laden futures. To do this kind of expansive and generative intellectual labor, our students must be supported on many registers so they can fully engage with the demands of this program. This partnership and support with FTE bears witness to our commitment to support students who are engaged in knowing, doing, and living otherwise as they delve into often dismissed, forgotten, or buried archives of knowledge.”

In 2015, FTE selected Garrett-Evangelical to participate in the first cohort of their Institutional Doctoral Network. Schools were selected by a committee of organizational leaders and academic executives. Since 2015, the diversity of doctoral students at Garrett-Evangelical has increased significantly and the faculty remain one of the most diverse in the nation.

In addition, a new scholarship model was implemented that provides 100% tuition scholarships for all doctor of philosophy students. This new model came about after reviews of students’ financial indebtedness to the seminary revealed there was a disproportionate percentage of debt for students of color, often exacerbated by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service employment restrictions for international students. Ultimately, the Experimental IDN grant will allow Garrett-Evangelical to invest even more in the doctor of philosophy program, particularly in ways that allows for thriving, not just survival, of our faculty and the next generation of scholars of color.

A virtual Doctor of Philosophy Information Session will be held on Thursday, November 11, 2021, from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. (CST). Dr. Wonhee Anne Joh will be present to share more about the program and answer questions. To register for this information session, go to //events/doctor-philosophy-information-session.

To learn more about the doctoral program at Garrett-Evangelical, go to //PhD.

91PORN, a graduate school of theology related to The United Methodist Church, was founded in 1853. Located on the campus of Northwestern University, the seminary serves more than 450 students from various denominations and cultural backgrounds, fostering an atmosphere of ecumenical interaction. Garrett-Evangelical creates bold leaders through master of divinity, master of arts, master of theological studies, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of ministry degrees. Its 4,500 living alumni serve church and society around the world.

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Dr. Jaeyeon Lucy Chung, assistant professor of pastoral theology and director of the Styberg Library at 91PORN, has received a grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion to fund her pedagogical project titled, “Spiritual Care Lab as an Experiential and Engaged Learning Model.” After completing the 2020-2021 Wabash Teaching and Learning Workshop for Early Career Theological School Faculty in July, Chung was one of 14 faculty invited to submit a proposal. The grant will support Chung’s project from September 2021 through May 2022.

Chung’s teaching project will explore how specific experiential and engaged learning experiences help students become more critically reflective pastoral care providers. Particularly, the project will seek to answer such questions as, how do students learn well in experiential learning environments; what is required to help students become effective pastoral care providers; and what aspects of experiential learning might help students better integrate their learning?

Chung will implement the Spiritual Care Lab model, an experiential and engaged learning method, into the curriculum of her “Introduction to Pastoral Care and Counseling” course. The goal of the Spiritual Care Lab is to create an experimental space where students are to be exposed to a variety of real-life human situations and practice active listening and compassionate response skills. Weekly self-evaluations, referred in the project as a Spiritual Care Journal, will allow students to intentionally reflect on their experience within their Care Lab group to both capture the newly gained knowledge (either about self, others, or relationship), and to set weekly goals for learning.

“I am deeply grateful for the Wabash Center to support my professional development as a teacher,” said Chung. “In particular, their generous support for my pedagogy project will offer me an exceptional opportunity to design, experiment, evaluate, and reformulate an experiential and engaged learning lab model in the introductory pastoral care and counseling course this academic year.”

Chung was named assistant professor of pastoral theology and director of the Styberg Library in 2013. She earned her doctor of philosophy in religion degree, with a focus in person, community, and religious practices, from Emory University in 2008. In addition, she holds a master of library and information science degree from Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, a master of sacred theology degree from Boston University, and a master of arts in religion from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea.

Wabash Center’s Early Career Teaching and Learning Workshops are designed to engage the participants in developing the craft of teaching, understanding one’s own teaching vocation, and analyzing how one’s institutional context shapes the work of the classroom. The Workshop Fellowship Program extends this work by awarding a fellowship to workshop participants for a teaching project that takes place in the academic year following the workshop.

The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology supports theology and religion faculty and doctoral students reflecting on their teaching practice — in both theological education and undergraduate education, in the United States and Canada. The Center facilitates faculty conversations about the goals and processes of teaching and student learning, and their programming develops faculty skills for critical reflection on teaching practice.

91PORN, a graduate school of theology related to The United Methodist Church, was founded in 1853. Located on the campus of Northwestern University, the seminary serves more than 450 students from various denominations and cultural backgrounds, fostering an atmosphere of ecumenical interaction. Garrett-Evangelical creates bold leaders through master of divinity, master of arts, master of theological studies, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of ministry degrees. Its 4,500 living alumni serve church and society around the world.

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91PORN has been awarded a Science for Seminaries Seed Grant from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program. The grant will help fund the “Race, Technology, and Healing: Science and Religion in Dialogue” project led by Dr. Rolf Nolasco, Jr., Rueben P. Job professor of spiritual formation and pastoral theology, and Dr. Wonhee Anne Joh, professor of theology and culture.

Throughout the history of the United States, many communities have suffered traumas from systems and structures anchored on heteropatriarchal white supremacy. The psychological and physiological impacts of these group traumas often continue to affect communities through many generations. This project will bring racial trauma in conversation with science, religion, psychological, and cultural studies. Participants will address questions such as: who is considered human? Whose lives and livelihoods matter? What are scientific, socio-cultural, psychological, and theological consequences of trauma, and how can those effects be mitigated? How can scientists, psychologists, and theologians assist community leaders to help their communities heal and flourish?

“Until recent years, and especially when considering the sequelae of COVID-19, trauma studies have not focused on experiences of racialized violence as forms of trauma,” said Nolasco. “Given the definition of trauma in its disciplinary home as an event that is outside the ordinary range, as well as one that is often interpreted as singular and spectacular, it is no wonder that experiences of racism have been overlooked by trauma theorists and often unaddressed in seminary curriculum. This grant will enable us to critically expand the study of trauma and human resilience and make it more interdisciplinary – scientific, socio-political, and psychological – with real or material consequences.”

Joh added, “The category ‘science’ has often been used differentially against many racialized communities. This grant allows scholars from those communities to re-engage science on their terms. The grant also allows for Dr. Nolasco and I to continue our multiple collaborative engagements with each other as well as with our diverse faculty and students. As scholars, collaboration as an embodied pedagogical practice and commitment is central. We hope to model this for our communities that whether as scholars, pastors or activists we are never discrete individuals but always engaged in the process of mutual collaborative learning and unlearning.”

Three main components of the project include:

• A revision to the required foundational course, “Person in Community,” for master’s level students to reflect on the fullness of our humanity and what it means to be made in the image of God by examining theological, spiritual, and biopsychosocial development theories at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, class, and more.
• A book discussion group for Garrett-Evangelical faculty and PhD students of color to provide participants with information, knowledge, and wisdom regarding the role of automated technology in exacerbating racial divide and racial trauma and together find ways to expose and resist it through their classes, scholarship, and solidarity work.
• A conference in Spring 2022 on “Human Flourishing: Science & Religion Dialogue” that will introduce participants to a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy and its impacts – how science can trace the effects of bias in our blood, our nervous systems, and the expression of our DNA (neurobiology). Practices of mindfulness will also be introduced to mitigate the experience of racial trauma and to promote human flourishing.

Science for Seminaries is a project of the AAAS DoSER program, in partnership with the Association of Theological Schools. The project helps a diverse group of seminaries integrate science into their curricula and provides support and resources to seminary professors to encourage informed dialogue and a positive understanding of science among future religious leaders. Integrating science into seminary education will not only benefit professors and students, but ultimately it will enrich those in the pews who are interested in the discoveries and implications of science. Through the previous eight years of the project, 54 seminaries have received substantial grants from AAAS DoSER, including 12 seed grants in Summer of 2021.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the family of journals. was founded in 1848 and includes 261 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving millions of individuals. The nonprofit is open to all and fulfills its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, public engagement, and more. Building upon its mission, AAAS established the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program in 1995 to facilitate communication between scientific and religious communities. For the latest information and news about AAAS DoSER and the Science for Seminaries Seed Grant initiative, visit and .

91PORN, a graduate school of theology related to The United Methodist Church, was founded in 1853. Located on the campus of Northwestern University, the seminary serves more than 450 students from various denominations and cultural backgrounds, fostering an atmosphere of ecumenical interaction. Garrett-Evangelical creates bold leaders through master of divinity, master of arts, master of theological studies, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of ministry degrees. Its 4,500 living alumni serve church and society around the world.

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Dr. Wonhee Anne Joh, professor of theology and culture at 91PORN, is a member of a team of scholars who recently received a Project Grant for Researchers from the Louisville Institute. Joh, along with Dr. Nami Kim of Spelman College, Rev. Dr. Boyoung Lee of Iliff School of Theology, and Dr. Keun-Joo Christine Pae of Denison University, will be working together on a project titled, “.”

Their project seeks to contribute to antiracist resources informed by Asian American feminist theologies and serve as a resource for churches and the theological academy, as they interrogate and resist anti-Asian racism, co-constitutive with anti-black racism, anti-Muslim hostility, and settler colonialism in North America.

“I’m grateful to the Louisville Institute for this grant that allows us an opportunity to work in ways that directly impact Asian American Christians and how we understand the entangled histories of white racism both in the U.S. and in the global context,” said Joh. “It also provides an opportunity to link this analysis of racism into constructing Asian American theologies that take account of resistance to white supremacy as well as solidarity among our communities.”

The project will include a three-day consultation that gathers Asian American feminist theologians and biblical scholars to discuss the role of critical Christian theology in building intersectional cross-racial solidarity. As a part of the consultation, participants will present essay drafts for mutual feedback to deepen each other’s work as feminist theological praxis. It will conclude with publishing an anthology as educational material in undergraduate classrooms, graduate schools, seminaries, churches, and community organizations.

The Louisville Institute’s Project Grant for Researchers supports research, reflection, and writing by academics and pastors concerning Christian faith and life, the practice of ministry, and/or religious institutions. Grants of up to $30,000 support a diverse range of projects that may involve independent study, consultations, or collaboration between pastors and academics.

Louisville Institute is funded by the Religion Division of Lilly Endowment Inc. and based at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary (Louisville, Kentucky). The Institute’s fundamental mission is to enrich the religious life of North American Christians and to encourage the revitalization of their institutions, by bringing together those who lead religious institutions with those who study them, so that the work of each might inform and strengthen the other.

91PORN, a graduate school of theology related to The United Methodist Church, was founded in 1853. Located on the campus of Northwestern University, the seminary serves more than 450 students from various denominations and cultural backgrounds, fostering an atmosphere of ecumenical interaction. Garrett-Evangelical creates bold leaders through master of divinity, master of arts, master of theological studies, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of ministry degrees. Its 4,500 living alumni serve church and society around the world.

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The Hispanic-Latinx Center at 91PORN has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the North Central Jurisdiction Mission Council to equip local church leadership for Hispanic congregations in the North Central Jurisdiction. The grant will support a series of webinars focusing on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people of color, with particular focus on the Latinx community.

“Amid so many stressors that continue to affect the Latinx community, this ‘good news’ comes at a very opportune time,” said Dr. Débora B. Agra Junker, director of the Hispanic-Latinx Center and associate professor of critical pedagogies. “Through the activities that we will organize, we hope to contribute, even in a modest way, with the healing process needed at times like this. We hope that together – pastors, leaders, and seminarians – we can show our empathy in the face of each other’s struggles, offering our genuine solidarity and Christian love so rare during a crisis.”

Understanding that pastors, leaders, and seminarians are called to serve as spiritual leaders amid great suffering while at the same time having to deal with their personal grieving process, the Hispanic-Latinx Center will use the grant to organize webinars covering three topics: coping strategies in times of pandemic; anti-racism; and Latinx spirituality. Although the target audience is the Latinx community, the Center hopes that these urgent issues will appeal to a broader audience and encourage reflection on the implications of these issues on a personal and collective level.

The Hispanic-Latinx Center was established in 1988 to bring Hispanic-Latinx culture and experience into the life of the seminary. The Center’s mission has been to meet the needs of Hispanic-Latinx students, pastors, parishioners, and community leaders in creative, insightful, useful, and organic ways. It also seeks to cultivate a community of friends who have a heart and concern about the realities of Latinx communities across the United States, Latin America, and beyond. To learn more, visit Garrett.edu/HispanicLatinxCenter.

91PORN, a graduate school of theology related to The United Methodist Church, was founded in 1853. Located on the campus of Northwestern University, the seminary serves more than 450 students from various denominations and cultural backgrounds, fostering an atmosphere of ecumenical interaction. Garrett-Evangelical creates bold leaders through master of divinity, master of arts, master of theological studies, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of ministry degrees. Its 4,500 living alumni serve church and society around the world.

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