Lillian Daniel

Lillian has served as the Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn, since 2004, after serving for eight years as the Senior Minister of the Church of the Redeemer, in New Haven, Connecticut. She also hosts the Chicago based television program “30 Good Minutes”  featuring the leading voices in religion today.

 A frequent contributor to the Christian Century Magazine, her work has also appeared in Christianity Today,Leadership, Books and Culture, and the Journal for Preachers. Daniel has taught preaching at Yale Divinity School, Chicago Theological Seminary, and the University of Chicago Divinity School. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Chicago Theological Seminary and is the Board President of Arise Chicago, formerly the Chicago Interfaith Committee for Worker Issues.

Lillian Daniel will be speaking from her book, Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony, which is the story of one church’s attempt to get main line Protestants to talk to each other about God.