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Strengthening the quality and shaping the character of church-related higher education

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Strengthening the quality and shaping the character of church-related higher education

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Meet Our 100 Member Institutions

A new name and look. The same important mission.
Formerly The Lilly Fellows Program.

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Lilly Endowment Grant Opportunity: National Storytelling Initiative in Christian Faith and Life

The Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities is pleased to share with you information on a new grant opportunity from Lilly Endowment Inc.

Retrospective Review of Mark Schwehn’s Exiles from Eden

Lilly Network Executive Director Joe Creech recently published a retrospective review of the foundational text for the Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities: Mark Schwehn’s Exiles from Eden. You can read this review here, in Christian Scholar’s Review, 54:1 (November 6, 2024).

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Call for Papers: Orality & Literature Conference, April 3-4, 2025, Geneva College

Geneva College will hold a conference on the relevance of Walter J. Ong’s thought, as represented in his books The Presence of the Word and Orality & Literacy to the study of modern means of communication, and specifically to academic curricula. They invite a full range of contributions from professors and practitioners in diverse fields.

Report on 2024 Lilly Network National Conference

It was a great joy to see many of our colleagues at Westmont College recently for the annual Lilly Network National Conference and Workshop for Senior Administrators. We hope all attendees engaged deeply with the ideas presented and the people who attended, and returned to their home institutions feeling restored and hopeful.

Faith & College Life: A Report on Student Spiritual and Intellectual Development

The Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities is pleased to share the report, “Faith & College Life,” on the Lilly Network Survey on Student Spiritual and Intellectual Development. We give thanks to the 34 colleges and universities that administered the survey to their students in Fall 2023, 34 students who participated in focus group sessions, and to Springtide Research Institute for creating the survey, analyzing the results, and preparing this report.

Save the Date: 2025 Lilly Network National Conference

Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, will host the 2025 Lilly Network National Conference on October 31-November 2, 2025. The theme will be “The Christian Imagination in Higher Education.” We hope to see you there!

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March 1, 2025

Arlin G. Meyer Book Award Nominations Due
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March 15, 2025

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Mentoring Program Grant Applications Due
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Inciting Peace from the Inside Out

In conjunction with a recent Faculty Fellows Program campus project, Seton Hall University recently published the 2023 Conference Proceedings of the The Institute for Communication and Religion. See this page for more details on this important collection of articles from a multi-disciplinary group of scholars exploring the connections between reconciliation practices and spiritual dynamics.

New Edition of Leading Lives That Matter recently released

Mark Schwehn, Founding Director, and Dorothy Bass, Senior Fellow, recently published a second edition of their beloved anthology Leading Lives That Matter. This text has often been used in the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Graduate Fellows Program.

Leading Lives That Matter draws upon both religious and secular wisdom from writers like Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Denise Levertov, Malcolm Gladwell, Julia Alvarez, Alice Walker, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pope Francis, and Chuang Tzu, to bring these sources into conversation about living a meaningful life.

See this page for further details.

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