Author

Fred Bahnson

Director, Food, Faith and Religious Leadership Initiative

Fred Bahnson is author of "Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith" (Simon & Schuster). He directs the Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. A former Kellogg Food & Community fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, he is the recipient of a 2012 North Carolina Arts Council fellowship in creative nonfiction. He previously served as the director of Anathoth Community Garden, a ministry he co-founded at Cedar Grove United Methodist Church. His writing has appeared in Orion, The Sun, Christian Century and “Best American Spiritual Writing 2007,” and he is co-author, with Norman Wirzba, of "Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation" (IVP). You can find him online at www.fredbahnson.com

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2024 Sabbatical Grant for Researchers

The Sabbatical Grant for Researchers (SGR) offers grants up to $40,000 to support academic sabbatical leave for projects about Christian faith and life, the practice of ministry, religious trends and movements, Christian and other faith-based institutions and religion and social issues. Louisville Institute is especially interested in projects that demonstrate a desire to bridge the North American church and academy.

SGR is most often used to supplement an existing semester sabbatical with a second term or semester. Typical applicants are fully employed in accredited academic institutions and are eligible for a full year leave from teaching and administrative responsibilities. Grants awarded in the 2024 cycle will fund sabbaticals taking place during the 2024-2025 academic year or during the 2025 calendar year.

Applications are due November 1, 2023.

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