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      • The Release:  How Writing in an Economy of Gifts Liberates Writers, September 29, 2025
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Former Board Members

+J. Elmo Agrimson
+Gary Alkire
Howard Anderson
Roger R. Anderson
+Colman J. Barry, OSB
+Luigi Bertocchi, OSB
+Arley R. Bjella
+Michael P. Blecker, OSB
Mary Murray Bosrock
+Magdaline Bovis
+Peter M. Butler
+Robert McAfee Brown
Cynthia Campbell
Rufus Campbell
Joan D. Chittister, OSB
+Wayne K. Clymer
Adam J. Copeland
Alberic Culhane, OSB
+Horton Davies
Thomas Deegan
Nicholas Denysenko
+Ann M. Didier
Calvin W. Didier
+Godfrey Diekmann, OSB
Elizabeth S. Driscoll
+David J. du Plessis
+Baldwin Dworschak, OSB
+John Eidenschink, OSB
+Arthur Flemming
John E. Forliti
William W. George
Amy Goldman
+Charles M. Grace
+Donald R. Grangaard
Leslie R. Green
+Richard R. Green
Grant Grissom
+Jeffrey Gros, FSC
+Louis H. Gunnemann
+James Halls
Tonye M. Hannah
+Mona Hanford
+Terrance Hanold
Darlene K. Haskin
Michael Hemesath
+Janice Hennings
Marnie Hensel
Linda Hoeschler
Ralph P. Hofstad
Stephen Hogberg
Patricia M. Holloran
+Thomas Hoyt, Jr.
+Ronald M. Hubbs
+Hella Mears Hueg
+Archibald Jackson
+Vivian Jones
Valerie A. Karras
+Timothy Kelly, OSB
John Klassen, OSB
Victor Klimoski
Bob Koopmann, OSB
+David A. Koch
Katherine Kraft, OSB
+Harold LeVander
+Franklin Littell
+G. Daniel Little

Arnold Lowe
+Patricia Lund
+Rhoda Lund
+Mary McNamara
Margo Maris
Nancy D. Martin
Eugene McAlister
+Abigail McCarthy
+James McClendon
+James I. McCord
+Joyce McFarland
Karla McGray
+Mary (Molly) Bigelow McMillan
+Dean C. McNeal
Kita McVay
+Norman B. Mears
+John Meyendorff
+Jim W. Miller
+Raymond P. Morris
Richard J. Mouw
+Elizabeth W. Musser
+Margaret O’Gara
+Daniel O’Hanlon
+Shaun O’Meara, OSB
+Larry O’Shaughnessy
John C. Parish
+Michael Patella, OSB
+Jaroslav Pelikan
+Lloyd Peterson
+Laverne A. Phillips
Carol L. Pine
+H. C. Piper, Jr.
+J. Timothy Power
+James S. Rausch
+Dietrich Reinhart, OSB
Kathleen Ridder
Bruce Robbins
J. Deotis Roberts
Jerry Roelofs
+Jack B. Rogers
+Alvin Rogness
Arthur A. Rouner, Jr.
+David T. Scoates
+James P. Shannon
+Gordon Shepard
+Theresa Schumacher, OSB
+Sondra Stalcup
+John F. Stone
+Clifford C. Sommer
+Thomas F. Stransky, CSP
+Carol McGee Stiles
+Jerome P. Theisen, OSB
+Hilary D. Thimmesh, OSB
Wayne E. Thompson
+William M. Thompson
Thomas H. Tipton
Krista Tippett
Anthony Ugolnik
Elizabeth E. Villafana
+Carl A. Volz
+George G. Walker, Jr.
+Rodney Wilmoth
Sandye Wilson
+Robina Winbush
+Paul M. Youngdahl
Julie Brooks Zelle

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Collegeville Institute receives $3.88 million Lilly Endowment grant to fund four years of the Ecclesial Literature Project: Words for the Church and the World.

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