Intentionally Christian Scholarship
CCCS Major Grant Awards
The Governing Board for the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship received twelve major grant proposals requesting a total of $500,474. The Governing Board granted funding to six for a total of $151,434 for the 2009-2010 academic year. Please join the Board in congratulating your colleagues who have received grants:
David Warners (Biology): to support a project that will create a sustainable program of creation care for churches in North America, "Creation Care in Missions."
Joel Zwart (Director of Exhibitions) and Jo-Ann Van Reeuwyk (Art & Art History): in collaboration with Rachel Smith (Taylor University), David JP Hooker (Wheaton College), and Rondall Reynoso (Louisiana College) for a traveling exhibit that brings Asian and North American artists to the wider public, "Charis, Christianity, Contextualization and the Arts."
Timothy Steele (Music) and and Benita Wolters-Fredlund (Music): with Johann Buis (Wheaton College), Stanley C. Pelkey (Western Michigan University), James Brooks Kuykendall (Erskine College), Karen A. De Mol (Dordt College), to engage the discipline of musicology from a Christian perspective by means of conference presentations and an edited volume, "Crisis, Justice, Peace: Christian Voices in Musicology."
James Bratt (History) and John Bolt (Calvin Seminary): with Paul J. Visser (Bethlehem Kerk), to sponser, in conjunction with Calvin Theological Seminary and the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, an English-language primer on the works of J. H. Bavinck, "Johan Herman Bavinck Translation Project."
Shirley Roels (Business): to support an international conference in celebration of the formation of the World Communion of Reformed Churches that will result in a subsequent book on the issues of tradition, translation, communities, and institutional identity, "Reformed Mission in an Age of World Christianity."
Julie Yonker (Psychology) and Laura DeHaan (Psychology): to produce a literature review and a meta-analysis for the social sciences on the topic of religious faith among adolescents and young adults, "The State of Religious Faith in Adolescents and Young Adults."
New CCCS Publications
Janel M. Curry & Ronald A. Wells, Faithful Imaginations in the Academy (Lexington Books, 2008)
Davis A. Young & Ralph F. Stearley, The Bible, Rocks and Time (IVP Academic, 2008)
Press release
Ralph Stearley and his latest co-authored publication with Davis Young: The Bible, Rocks and Time