Felipe Hinojosa received a 2010 First Book Grant for Minority Scholars for his project Los Aleluyas: Faith, Activism, and Identity Among Latino/a Mennonites. Felipe shares about his latest book Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith & Evangelical Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).

Chanequa Walker-Barnes received a 2011 First Book Grant for Minority Scholars award for her project Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength. Chanequa shares about her book Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength (Cascade Books, 2014).

Natalia Marandiuc received a 2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship. She currently teaches at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

Chris Holmes received a 2013 Doctoral Fellowship. He shares about his current doctoral work and his experience in the first group of Doctoral Fellows supported by the Louisville Institute.

LaVerne Gill received a 2012 Pastoral Study Project grant for her project: Faith Formation and Kidney Transplantation: A Pastoral Counseling Manual and Website. Her research resulted in the book “Faith and Kidney Disease: Prayers, Meditations and Other Spiritual Disciplines For People with Kidney Disease” published in 2013.

Jason Storbakken received a 2011 Pastoral Study Project grant for his project: Toward a Radical Spirituality: Discipleship on the Margins. As a result of this project, Jason’s book “Radical Spirituality: Repentance, Resistance, and Revolution” will be available September 10, 2014.

Diana Garland and Gaynor Yancey received a 2011 Project Grant for Researchers award to support Social Work with Congregations. Their research resulted in the 2014 book Congregational Social Work: Christian Perspectives.

Fred Bahnson received a 2011 Project Grant for Researchers award to support The Good Land Project – Extending Practical Charity to the Soil. We interviewed Fred about his 2013 book Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith, an outcome of his project.

Susan Windley-Daoust received a 2011 Sabbatical Grant for Researchers award for her project The Theology of the Body, Extended: The Spiritual Signs of Childbirth, Disability, and Death. Susan shares with us about her book Theology of the Body, Extended: The Spiritual Signs of Birth, Impairment, and Dying (Lectio Publishing, 2014).

Gary A. Anderson received a 2010 Sabbatical Grant for Researchers award to support his project A Treasury in Heaven. We interviewed Gary about his 2013 book Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition.