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Cultivating Thriving Communities of Faith: The Promise of Strategic Religious Philanthropy


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Cultivating Thriving Communities of Faith: The Promise of Strategic Religious Philanthropy

Thomas H. Lake Lecture

In these remarks reflecting on his 23 years of religious grant making on behalf of the largest religious grantor in the United States, Dr. Dykstra noted that two questions shaped his approach to his work:

  1. What does it mean to be a community of faith?
  2. Under what conditions are local congregations likely to thrive?

Watch the video below or read the lecture here.

Craig Dykstra is Emeritus Research Professor of Practical Theology & Emeritus Senior Fellow at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School.

DATE: March 27, 2014
TOPIC: Research and Scholarship
TYPE: Video
SOURCE: Lake Institute
KEYWORDS: Philanthropy, Religious Giving
AUTHOR: Craig Dykstra