Author

Celeste Kennel-Shank

Journalist

Celeste Kennel-Shank is an award-winning journalist and ordained Mennonite minister living in Chicago. She is pastor of an emerging community of faith called Moveable Feast and is the author of the book “What You Sow Is a Bare Seed: A Countercultural Christian Community During Five Decades of Change.” 

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Apply for Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Exploring Christian Practices Initiative 

The Exploring Christian Practices Initiative aims to multiply opportunities and increase access to settings that help individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds explore and engage in Christian practices to address their spiritual interests and questions, find and build community with others, nourish their religious lives and grow in faith. 

An Interest Form and Letter of Interest are due March 25, 2026. Complete proposals are due May 18, 2026.

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