News from the Collegeville Institute Read all about what’s happening at the Collegeville Institute. In this section of the website we share opportunities of interest, news about what’s going on at the Collegeville Institute, alumni news, and updates on our artists in residence. Dr. Aizaiah Yong appointed as new Executive Director of Collegeville Institute April 14, 2025Collegeville Institute The Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Rev. Aizaiah G. Yong, PhD (he/him) as its new Executive Director, effective April 30, 2025. Dr. Yong was selected after a thorough and highly competitive search process that included several distinguished candidates. His appointment marks an exciting new ...Read more »Collegeville Institute welcomes Andrew McNeil as its new Director of Communications. March 11, 2025Collegeville Institute The Collegeville Institute (CI) is pleased to announce Andrew McNeil as the new Director of Communications for CI. McNeil brings over eight years of experience in digital marketing, public affairs, and strategic communication, which helps reinforce CI’s commitment to bringing people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives together and fostering healing through the power of religious ideas, insights, and ...Read more »Meet a Resident Scholar March 11, 2025Collegeville Institute As part of our Meet a Resident Scholar series, today we'd like to introduce you to Rev. Danae Ashley. Danae is a Priest and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from the Episcopal Church in Everett, WA. While in-residence, she is working on "The Ministry of Presence: Holistic Healing in Mental Health through the ...Read more »Meet a Resident Scholar March 4, 2025Collegeville Institute As part of our Meet a Resident Scholar series, today we'd like to introduce you to Alicia Forde. Alicia is a Director at the International Office, UAA in Boulder, CO. While in-residence, she is working on Violence, Mercy, and Building the Kin-dom. For more information about all our program participants, please visit https://collegevilleinstitute.org/.../upcoming-scholars Since 2006, a centerpiece of the Collegeville Institute has been the Ecclesial Literature Project (ELP). We’ve hosted over 140 writing workshops, in which participants have written sonnets and revised memoirs. They’ve pressed paragraphs into the service of activism. They’ve written with illuminating insight about prayer; they’ve written with charity about long-dead parents; they’ve ...Read more »Collegeville Institute receives two-year, almost $1.2 million grant from the Lilly Endowment August 30, 2024Collegeville InstituteThe Collegeville Institute is pleased to announce the award of a two-year, almost $1.2 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to continue the comprehensive program Words Making Worlds: The Ecclesial Literature Project.Read more »Writing for Mystic Activists meets at Collegeville Institute August 1, 2024Collegeville InstituteFrom July 10-16, the Collegeville Institute hosted Writing for Mystic Activists, a workshop facilitated by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.Read more »Apart, and Yet Apart workshop wraps up June 28, 2024Collegeville InstituteFrom June 5-14, the Collegeville Institute hosted ten writers of various genres in Apart, and Yet Apart.Read more »123456...40>>
