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The Lilly Project Asks:
How will you serve your ethical or religious commitments in a complex world?

Rising juniors and seniors are invited to apply to a be a Lilly Summer Fellow. This summer program explores vocational and ethical questions through a community-based project in the Twin Cities. Projects are imbedded in an internship or executed through public scholarship.

Lilly Summer Fellows reside in an intentional community where they live out common practices that reflect their shared values. Weekly dinners and reflection groups bring faculty, staff and community leaders to the house for informal teaching and mentoring.  Each award will be for $3,500 plus residence in a campus house.

For more information, attend one of the half-hour information sessions:
Wednesday, November 25 - 12 pm
Monday, November 30 - 4:30 pm
Tuesday, December 1 - 12 pm
Thursday, January 28 - 4:30 pm
Friday, January 29 - 12 pm
All sessions are in Markim Hall – Davis Court.

More about the Summer Fellows program>>

 


Programs:

Lives of Commitment

Summer Fellows Program

Professions and Religious Leadership in the Global Commons

Chiasma

Lilly Young Alumni Retreat (2009)

Lilly Senior Keystone and Retreat

Venture Fund for New Initiatives

 

Learn more about these Lilly programs:

What gives you joy? What are you passionate about? What are you good at and where is there a need for these things to be done? Where do you turn to find support and meaning? What ideals are worth giving yourself to? How do you translate self-discovery into concrete life decisions? Where is God or Spirit moving in your exploration of vocation?

The Lilly Project encourages the examination of broad questions of values, ethics and vocation. Its programs combine reflection and action to bring to life those pivotal questions about the meaning and purpose of our life's work. Students involved in the project work towards aligning their life's work with their deepest spiritual and ethical convictions. 

Preparation for global citizenship requires corollary contemplation on both personal commitments and community need.  Through personal reflection, civic engagement and group research, students ask not only, “what is my work in the world?”, but also, “to what purpose shall we pledge our common, cooperative effort?”  The goal of the Lilly Project is to provide students with the vision and skills to assume ethical leadership within both society and religious communities. 

 
 


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