Spiritual and Religious Life

Using the Reservation System?  Ever notice that box?  The one that says
“Event enhances spiritual and religious life”

The Office of Spiritual and Religious Life encourages the campus community to be aware of the many places where spirituality and choice intersect.

When you are making a reservation in the LU system, selecting this box can be a way to indicate that your program, meeting, class, or event could be characterized in this way.

Whether it is in Sabin House, Warch Center, the Diversity and Intercultural Center, or anywhere on campus, ask yourself if your room reservation enhances spiritual and religious life. If the answer is yes, then click the box.

By clicking the box, you’re also communicating via the SRL webpage under Programs & Events the details of your event.  Spirituality and/or religion takes many forms and those choices are available for all.

Our office and Center are open during break, which includes extended hours for the Food Pantry.

Regular programs such as guided meditation and Saturday yoga will not be occurring, but students staff and faculty can still use the space for community meals, department retreats, planning sessions, or a quiet respite with lots of natural light.

*The second floor Group Room lets creative thought flow.
*The Meditation room is a great place to get centered, release tension.
*The Community Room usually has a place to sit or an open piano to play.
*The Living Room alcove’s natural light and a cozy table are great for a quiet lunch  and that book you never get to read (the one you are reading for pleasure).

Open to the public 830-5
Open with Lawrence ID 8am-midnight

Taize’ at All Saints Episcopal Church – October 28th @ 5pm

Feed your soul with candlelit prayer and song at Taize’.  This Christian service will be followed by a light dinner provided by the All Saints community.

Sikh Temple of the Fox Valley

The Food Recovery Network and the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life are taking their work into the community at the Sikh Gurudwara. By joining with the members of the Sikh temple in the experience of their langar, you can take part in sharing meals with the community.

Lawrence vans will depart from the Wriston turnaround on November 11th. 
Contact Michaela McElroy at michaela.m.mcelroy@lawrence.edu. to reserve your space.

Join the Lawrence students, staff and faculty in a conversation about what it means to listen well at Lawrence.

Friday, October 26th
8am-9am at International House

Tuesday, October 30th
8p-9p at Sabin House

Where are you from?  Where are “your people” from?  What does ancestry say about us?

Join fellow staff and faculty in a discussion around ancestry for this last Fourth Friday lunch of the term.

Bring a story about your ancestors and how their lives, choices, loves, and  presence has shaped your life today.

Fourth Friday Soup & Salad
October 26th at noon in Sabin House

Allow yourself to experience silence, chant and prayer through Taize’

Sunday, October 21
5pm at the Lawrence Chapel

Meet the Dean over food:

Open hours with Linda Morgan-Clement have taken on a non-traditional format this year.  You can connect with Linda by making an appointment, or by sitting down with her at lunch in Andrew Commons. Find her there on Tuesdays of even weeks at 12:30.
October 16
October 30th
November 13

Meet the Dean at Tai Chi:

Mondays at 4:15 in the Esch Hurvis room.
Come as you are. Breathe and move toward a peaceful inner energy.
All are welcome.

Our Student Employees:

Interfaith Activators Emily Midyette and Michaela McElroy just might be reaching out on behalf of the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life.

Imagine a religious or spiritual event has happened or is coming up.
If your organization’s mission might tie in with the mission of our office, don’t be surprised to find that the Interfaith Activator is your primary contact.  They help organize, help promote knowledge, answer questions, act as advocates, and assist with outreach that can be either campus wide or specifically and spiritually inclusive.  They are the student arms of our office, and part of their job is to help foster connections beyond Sabin House.  Dean Linda Morgan-Clement and Associate Dean Terra Winston are always a resource, but sometimes the student to student connection makes for just as meaningful of an experience.

Worship and spiritual practice comes in many varieties.  In our daily choices, in exercises and movements, in readings we select, and in the topics on our lips and in our ears.  It can be found in support, in activity, in thought and in deed.

Choose your practice, on campus or off.

• Curious about Lawrence University Unitarian Universalists?  You can bring your questions on Wednesdays at 8pm at Sabin House.

• Meditation continues Wednesdays at 4:30

• Student run yoga at Sabin on Saturdays

• Local worship services

• Personal reflection

Sukkot is the Jewish time of remembrance, recalling  when the Israelites wandered through the desert.  A sukkah represents the structures that were slept in and can be constructed of almost anything for the walls. More specifically, the roof must be made of plants that are no longer in the ground, the purpose being that the stars should be able to be seen at night. This year, Sukkot will end on the evening of Sunday, Spetember 30th.

Visit the eastern green space next to Sabin House to respectfully consider the structure there.  Have questions? connect with Hillel on Friday at 5:30 at Sabin House Center for Spiritual and Religious Life to talk more.

  MON –  Esch Hurvis starting at 4:15p
Begin your week with balance and energy as you begin a practice of  Tai Chi. Complete your exercise there or flow right in to the yoga practice that follows in the same space.  Open to all.
Every Monday during term. 

  TUE – Andrew Commons 12:30p-1:30p

On Tuesday, have a seat with Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life, Linda Morgan-Clement.  Take lunch with Linda in Andrew Commons and discuss what’s on your mind, spiritual or otherwise. Connect.  You will find her at one of the tables near the ice cream machines.  Open to all.
Tuesdays of weeks 4,6,8 and 10.

WED – Intersections: Water  5:15p

Come and continue the connection between water and resourcefulness.  Start your experiental workshop at Sabin House and connect with fellow Lawrentians around water’s faceted presence in both vast and intricate ways.   Intersections shows us the places where faith, scholarship, work and activism all connect. “Water” will be led by Terra Winston, Associate Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life.  Open to all.
Final two sessions October 3rd and 10th.