National Research Conferences

2008 - Loyola Marymount University
Convivencia: Religious Identities in the New World
Directors: Dorian Llywelyn and Amir Hussain
March 27-29, 2008

2006 - Baylor University
The World and Christian Imagination
Director - Douglas V. Henry

2005 Calvin College
Globalization and Secularity: What Comes After Modernity?

Director: Dr. James K.A. Smith

2004 - Samford University
Christianity and Human Rights
CoDirectors - Frederick Shepherd, Associate Professor of Political Science and Christopher P. Metress, Associate Professor of English.

2003 - Seattle Pacific University
A Narratable World: The Theological Implications of Story
Director - Gregory Wolfe, Writer-in-Residence, editor of Image

2002 - Baylor University
Christianity and Economics

Director - James Henderson, Department of Economics

2001 - University of Notre Dame
Ecology, Theology and Judeo-Christian Environmental Ethics

Director - David M. Lodge, Department of Biological Sciences

Noteworthy News

September LFP Update

The Current LFP Update for September 2023 is now available. Click here.


Registration is now open for the 2023 National Conference

Registration is now closed for the 2023 National Conference, "Contemplating Integral Ecology for the Common Good," on October 20-22 at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI. Click here for more information about the conference, including the schedule. 


Registration is now open for the 2023 Administrators Workshop

Registration is now closed for the 2023 Workshop for Senior Administrators on the topic, "Fostering Hope in a Polarized Age," October 19-20, at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI. Click here for more information about the workshop, including the schedule.


Announcing the winner of the 2022 Arlin G. Meyer Prize

We are pleased to announce Gordon Johnston, Professor of Creative Writing at Mercer University, as the winner of the 2022 Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Imaginative Writing for his book of poetry, Scaring the Bears. For more information and to see the finalist for this prize, click here.


Lilly Network of Church- Related Colleges and Universities

If you are interested in learning more about membership in the Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities, please contact us here.


New edition of Leading Lives that Matter released

In their second edition of Leading Lives That Matter, editors Mark Schwehn and Dorothy Bass compile a wide range of texts—from ancient and contemporary literature, social commentary, and philosophy—related to questions of vital interest for those who are trying to decide what to do with their lives and what kind of human beings they hope to become. Leading Lives that Matter has been an important text in many of our fellowship and grant programs, and it contains excellent resources. Click here for more information and an excerpt.