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Jim Naughton and Rebecca Wilson

Partners, Canticle Communications

Jim Naughton and Rebecca Wilson are partners in Canticle Communications, a public relations and strategic communications firm that represents congregations, cathedrals, dioceses, advocacy groups and health and human services organizations. Naughton, the former canon for communications and advancement for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C., is the founder of the website Episcopal Café and has worked for The New York Times, The New York Daily News and The Washington Post. Before Canticle was founded in 2009, Wilson worked as an independent consultant on strategic communications and grant seeking with nonprofit and public sector organizations, including the Chicago Consultation and Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland. They are the co-authors of “Speaking Faithfully: Communications as Evangelism in a Noisy World.”

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Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants

The Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants Program at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship is designed to foster, strengthen and sustain well-grounded worship in congregations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Two streams of grants are offered: to teacher-scholars and to worshiping communities.

Grant proposal due date options include October 15, 2023, or February 15 or June 15, 2024.

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