The Seminary's grant research profile has grown while focusing on a number of strategically important fields of study. Use the interactive directory below to learn more about research projects.
- November 2021
The Institute for Youth Ministry secured a grant from the Fuller Youth Institute to create Christian education curriculum on neurodiversity and faith formation in youth ministry. The curriculum aims to equip leaders to shape congregations in which young people of all neurotypes flourish. The project is part of Fuller Youth Institute’s “Character-Forming Youth Discipleship” project, funded by The John Templeton Foundation.
PROJECT LEADER
Abigail Rusert, Director of Program Design and the Institute for Youth Ministry
CO-LEADERS
Michael Paul Cartledge, PhD Candidate
Erin Raffety, Empirical Research Consultant
- January 2021
In collaboration with Calvin University, Professor Afe Adogame is leading a project to support African theologians to engage in fresh social scientific integrated approaches in grounded theology, with the goal of producing creative and original projects. This project is an attempt at realizing the potential of theological creativity from the bottom up, as opposed to the top down. The work will include early career African theologians with compelling research ideas to work on three years of research and curricular development.
PROJECT LEADER
Afe Adogame, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society
- December 2017
Now nearing its conclusion, Sustaining the Preaching Life is led by Professor Nancy Lammers Gross. It aims to support and resource the continuing development of preachers in a peer-learning environment.
DIRECTOR
Nancy Lammers Gross, Arthur Sarrell Rudd Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry
- November 2017
The name of this project is derived from Proverbs 27:17. Dr. Anne Stewart, project leader, and her team seek ways to strengthen pastoral leaders and congregations, building on the value of cohort learning groups and the Seminary’s residential model of education. Peer learning groups of women clergy are organized and equipped with the capacities, agency, and savvy to negotiate challenging leadership contexts with a confidence that is born of competence.
PROJECT LEADER
Anne Stewart, Vice President for External Relations
- November 2017
The Log College Project is an innovative initiative at Princeton Theological Seminary to help Christian congregations design, test, and implement new models of youth ministry. Twelve congregations will receive $15,000 grants to build new ministries that take theology and young people seriously. This project is funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc., built by the Institute for Youth Ministry, and housed at Princeton Theological Seminary.
PROJECT LEADER
Abigail Rusert, Director of Program Design and the Institute for Youth Ministry
- November 2016
In 2017, the Lilly Endowment launched its Young Adult Innovation Hub Initiative. Princeton Theological Seminary proposed a project to empower congregations to build relationships with young adults and nurture their religious lives — especially by learning from and supporting young adults in various “domains” where they find meaning, purpose, and belonging in their communities outside of churches, and by ferreting out the implicit theological issues that undergird young adults’ involvement in these domains. The Zoe Project gathers 12 congregations into a community of practice to explore, experiment with, and share their experiences as each church launches its own Zoe Project to build relationships with young adults and support young adults’ religious lives through one particular domain in their community.
PROJECT LEADER
Kenda Creasy Dean, Mary D. Synnott Professor of Youth, Church, and Culture
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