Templeton Research Project
The Collegeville Institute received a three-year, $150,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation as part of the Foundation's Science for Ministry Initiative. The Way the World Is: Cosmology and the Practice of Ministry helps pastors integrate the findings of science with faith's reasoning about "the way the world is." The Collegeville Institute intends that the integrative work advanced by the project will provide pastors, their communities, and others whom the community touches, with a useable cosmology-a reasoned and compelling understanding of the cosmos as interpreted by both scientists and theologians. Board Member and Drell and Adeline Bernhardson Distinguished Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, Darrell Jodock, will serve as the Grant Director.