Karen Brennan

Join LU Reads as we explore George on Wednesdays at 7:00 pm. 

Grab a cup of tea, settle back and follow the library’s link to listen in. If you want to read along, Spiritual and Religious Life has 10 copies available. 

Email spiritual.religious.life@lawrence.edu with your SPC and we’ll send you a copy.

No matter your capacity or your necessity, starting the term with a mindset of growth and connection is a gift you can give yourself right away. Whether you are connecting with other students during Take A Hike, or connecting peer to peer (without students) over Fourth Friday lunch, setting your intention is a step toward purposeful real time linking, especially in this virtual hybrid world.

Find where the depth is appealing (or excitedly scary, or eye opening)
and welcome in the spring term.

Take a Hike every Tuesday at 5:00
Meditation – virtual and in-person
Tai Chi two times a week
First Year Dialogues
Fourth Friday Lunch in April and May
Grief Group – for students in weeks four through six
Center for Spiritual and Religious Life – open after week two
LU Reads – weekly connection through children’s books
Religious celebrations to honor the many communities at Lawrence
Movement and music across campus

Specific details are close at hand – bookmark the LU Calendar, follow on Instagram, visit Facebook, or stop by the Center for Spiritual and Religious Life for a visit and a chat.

Are you, or do you know a First Year who is looking to engage with other First Years?!

This dialogue group is a unique experience in diversity, inclusion, and equity based on meeting with the same small group of people multiple times. Conversations will be based on what experiences specific group members bring to the table, with the hope that all who sign up will “listen deeply enough to be changed by what they hear”.

Benefits of participating:
? Learn about the varied geographic and demographic of other First Year students
? Build a new, diverse group of classmates to interact with
? Have intentional conversations that form deeper connections than typically possible
? Be able to become trained to become a dialogue group facilitator later.

Register here to be a part of the experience.

Even when life feels challenging, each encounter and challenge is a chance to grow spiritually. Check out the Spiritual and Religious Life landing page for a new video series hosted by Kathy Privatt. At the intersection of Alexander Technique and Christian faith is an opportunity to consider Belonging through a poem by David Whyte. The series of 5 reflections is waiting for you via Youtube on our website.

The Sustainable Spirituality Workbook guides you through the process of identifying your spiritual style and creating a personal and sustainable plan for spiritual growth.

In times of anxiety, stress, or fear – a natural response is to close; close our hearts, our emotions, and our relationships. As we prepare to close this term, you are invited instead to be open with yourself and the community.

The Diversity and Intercultural Center, International House, and the Center for Spiritual and Religious Life will all be host to a space that allows you to be open by placing your intentions, wishes, hopes, thanksgiving, fears, confessions, questions, or prayers into the “wall” regardless of background or beliefs. (A remote option will be available through the Spiritual and Religious Life webpage.)

Spiritual and Religious Life understands prayer to be many different things for the members of our community. In all times and traditions, it is a way of being in the moment, being present, and opening your heart, soul, and mind to connection.

At the end of term we will dismantle the wall and collect the prayers. They will be released, unopened, to the universe through burning.