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Formerly The Lilly Fellows Program.

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Formerly the Lilly Fellows Program.

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Announcing the Winner of the 2025 Arlin G. Meyer Book Award

The Lilly Network is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Arlin G. Meyer Book Award is Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age, by Dr. Rachel B. Griffis, Dr. Julie Ooms, and Dr. Rachel M. De Smith Roberts. Please visit this page for more information on the winner and the four finalists.

Lilly Network Leadership Institute

As colleges and universities face a variety of extraordinary challenges, the Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities has launched an innovative new program to advance the mission of church-related higher education and help ensure that the wisdom, responsibility, and faith it engenders can carry forward in today’s world. More information is available here.

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Call for Papers: Gordon College Conference on “American Independence and Identity at 250": Examining Democracy in the United States and Globally, June 11-13, 2026

This conference, hosted by Gordon College, provides Christian political scientists, historians, and sociologists with a unique forum to gather to explore the state of democracy in the US (and globally). The conference will feature stellar keynote addresses, paper panels, workshops, and roundtables. In addition, in recognition of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the conference also includes an optional Sunday afternoon excursion into nearby Boston to visit revolutionary sites. Gordon College, in Wenham, MA, is a short drive from historic Boston, and is located near beautiful beaches and woodlands. The Lilly Network is co-sponsoring this conference. More information is available here.

Call for Submissions: Geneva College Orality & Literature Conference

Geneva College welcomes submissions for their 3rd annual Orality & Literacy Conference: “And the Life of the Soul,” March 26-27, 2026. The Lilly Network is co-sponsoring this conference. More information is available here.

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Special Call for Proposals for Network Exchange Grants

The Lilly Network is issuing a special call for Network Exchange Proposals on the topic of congregational and/or community engagement. Schools that have exemplary programs connecting their campus to congregations and/or engaging their campus with local communities are invited to apply for a Network Exchange grant, which provides funding to host a workshop showcasing such a program.

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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.

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