Truitt Center For Religious & Spiritual Life

Hundreds of people celebrated the arrival of the holidays on Thursday night as Elon University hosted its annual Festival of Holiday Lights in the heart of a campus aglow with luminarias honoring alumni and student donors.

The campus community remembered the victims of a terrorist attack in Paris in a Sunday vigil in which university leaders challenged Elon students to make a difference in the world by committing to lives of compassion and kindness.

The Elon community is invited to gather at 5:15 p.m. in front of Alamance Building to offer prayers for the victims of Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris. 

The university community shared memories Thursday afternoon of Demitri Allison, a wide receiver on the Elon Phoenix football team, and began the healing process that follows the sudden loss of a loved one.

The Elon community gathered Nov. 9 to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali in the McBride Gathering Space of the Numen Lumen Pavilion.

"To Heal a Broken World," conversations on Jan. 7 & Jan. 14 in the Numen Lumen Pavilion, will engage the Elon University community in what Judaism, Christianity and Islam have to teach about social justice.

Each Wednesday in Winter Term, we invite members of a faith community to share about what they believe during a community lunch.

Elon University sent 20 delegates to the international interfaith gathering and presented two workshops at the conference.