Belong Event to Feature Frs. Gillick, Carlson
The Division of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and the Division of Mission and Ministry will host the final Belong event for faculty and staff for the 2022-2023 academic year on Friday, April 28, with a luncheon conversation with two longtime Creighton Jesuits, the Rev. Larry Gillick, SJ, and the Rev. Greg Carlson, SJ.
- Date: Friday, April 28
- Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. CDT, 9:30-11 MST
- Location: Skutt Student Center, Mutual of Omaha Ballroom (a virtual link will be available for those unable to attend in person)
- Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 25 for in-person attendance; April 28 for virtual
About the Event
Rebecca Murray, PhD, associate dean and professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as moderator as the Rev. Larry Gillick, SJ, and the Rev. Greg Carlson, SJ, share entertaining and enlightening stories about their time at Creighton, their lives as Jesuits and their experience with the mission and spirit of community at the University.
Free journals highlighting the Belong theme on the cover will be provided to all registrants who attend the event in person.
Both Fr. Gillick and Fr. Carlson work within the Division of Mission and Ministry’s Department of Ignatian Formation and Ministry for Faculty and Staff.
Fr. Gillick
Blinded in a childhood accident, the Rev. Larry Gillick, SJ, has been a Jesuit for 63 years and a member of Creighton’s Jesuit community for more than 40 years. Ordained a priest in 1972, he is the longtime director of Creighton’s Deglman Center for Ignatian Spirituality. He is a popular speaker and spiritual advisor and has given retreats across the country. He is the coauthor of Retreat in the Real World: Finding Intimacy with God Wherever You Are.
Fr. Carlson
The Rev. Greg Carlson, SJ, is an associate professor and associate director of the Deglman Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Creighton. He has taught classics at the College of the Holy Cross, Creighton and Marquette University. Fr. Carlson entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1959 and was ordained a priest in 1974. A popular retreat director, Fr. Carlson also is an avid collector of Aesop fables – with well over 10,000 books and thousands of related objects housed at Creighton.