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The Vera Richardson Truitt Center
for Religious and Spiritual Life
 

   The Truitt Center is a safe place for spiritual growth and interfaith exploration.  Our mission is  to encourage students to honor the spiritual dimension of life, be vitally connected to a faith tradition, embrace the present responsibly and the future with hope, and live the principles they value.

    Elon University's mission statement begins by identifying our religious context: "Rooted in the historic tradition of the United Church of Christ, Elon University embraces its founders' vision of an academic community that transforms mind, body and spirit, and encourages freedom of thought and liberty of conscience." In this spirit, Elon offers a spacious welcome to students and faculty from diverse religious traditions.

Doug and Edna Noiles   The Vera Richardson Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life is endowed by a generous gift from Douglas G. Noiles and Edna Truitt Noiles '44 "to enable Elon students to learn about their own and other faiths and to live lives of reconciliation. "

   The Truitt Center is named to honor Edna's mother, who sent six daughters to Elon and whom she described as "an educator of the heart and of the spirit ... strong, intelligent and competitive,--a pioneer woman of the 20th century."      

The Truitt Center is a safe place
for Spiritual Growth and Interfaith Exploration

For more information, contact:

Rev. Richard McBride , University Chaplain
After 25 years at Elon, Reverend McBride will be retiring at the end of this academic year.
For information concerning the job description check www.elon.edu/employment


Rev. Phil Smith , Assistant Chaplain and
    Director of Religious Life

Rene' Summers , Program Assistant

401 E. College Avenue (corner of Antioch and E. College between tennis complex and RR tracks)
Phone: (336) 278-7729
2960 Campus Box
Elon, NC 27244
Fax: (336) 278-7439