Kay Wilson Shurden, Ph.D., has recently been selected as the 2008 Oates Award recipient.  Dr. Shurden will speak and be honored at the Wayne E. Oates Institute’s Annual Gathering and Oates Award dinner on Thursday evening, September 25, in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Oates Award was established to honor Dr. Wayne E. Oates and the award is given to a person that has demonstrated exceptional qualities in the field of Pastoral Care, specifically in the areas of ministry, leadership, and personal service.  This award has been given annually since 1989.

"We are in a real sense, our stories," write authors Carl Savage and William Presness. "Who we are, what we think, and how we act are all shaped by the many large and small stories that make up the discourse embedded in our multi-sensory social experience. It is this postmodern understanding of identity and reality that has prompted the authors to fashion a new way of thinking about doing research in faith communities today... It is our belief that, in order for faith communities to define themselves and to know what to do in ministry, they must first understand the multiple stories which intersect with a given ministry situation in their specific context."

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