Research Grants & Fellowships

CURRENT

“Academic Cross Training Fellowship,” in Cognitive Science of Religion. John Templeton Foundation. Nov. 30 2020 – Aug. 31 2023. ($217,208 USD).

“The Science of Sex Development: Philosophical and Theological Implications,” Follow-On Funding Grant, New Visions in Theological Anthropology, University of St. Andrews. Nov. 2020 – May 2022. (24,712 GBP)

“Fellowship in Science-Engaged Theology,” an initiative of the New Visions in Theological Anthropology grant, John Templeton Foundation. University of St. Andrews. March 18 2020 – July 31 2022. (4,000 GBP)

2021

SET Foundations Seminar in Science Engaged Theology: Causation and Explanation in Science (June 2021, $4,000 USD).

“The meaning of virtual virtue: The role of frames in video game players’ moral and ethical decision making” ($5391) Collaborator, SSHRC Explore Grant (Drs. Kevin Schut and Kelly Arbeau, Co-PI’s)

2019

“On Human Natures: Psychological Science in the Service of Theology” TheoPsych Fellowship. Science, Theology and Religion Office, Fuller Seminary, funded by John Templeton Foundation. ($2,500 USD). Two week funded research seminar at Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, CA, July 8-20, 2019.

2018

“Science, Faith, and Human Flourishing: Conversations in Community.” Science, Theology and Religion Office, Fuller Seminary. (2018-2019, $25,000 USD). Co-Principle Investigator, with Jaime Palmer-Hague and Arnold Sikkema.

2017

Resourcing Christian Faith: Lessons from the Cognitive Science of Religion” Grant, Templeton Religion Trust (2017 – 2019, $66,000 USD).

2015

Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, “Bridging Two Cultures” Grant, Wycliffe Hall Oxford, Templeton Religion Trust (2015 -2016, $17,500).

Fundamental Practices of Intellectual Humility, Calvin College Summer Seminars in Christian Scholarship (June 2015, $1000).

2013    

John Templeton Foundation Visiting Research Fellow, Ryerson University (2013 – 2014, $30,000).

Nominee, Trinity Western University’s Davis Distinguished Teacher Award (2013).

2011

Cognitive Science of Religion and Christianity, Calvin College Summer Seminars in Christian Scholarship (2011 – 2013, $2000).

2004

Visiting Graduate Fellow, University of Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion, (2004 – 2005, $14,000).