Spiritual and Religious Life

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. 

The Spirituality of Water will be explored on 9/26, 10/3, and 10/10.
This Fall’s Intersections  series will travel around campus and beyond to explore and discuss various water centered places and their many meanings.

Essential to the earth and to our being. Essential for healing and nourishing.  Be a part of explorations around water and the many ways that its spiritual expansiveness can be experienced.

Movement

Tai Chi begins on Monday, September 17th at 4:15 in Esch Hurvis.  Attend and enjoy this meditation in motion each Monday during term just before Yoga class for energy and connection. All are welcome.

Worship

Jumma prayer shuttles on Friday and hosts to local churches on Sunday.  Enjoy  community, enjoy environment, and connect IRL. Speak or be silent. Be present.

Open House – Take root in Fall term

These plants won’t solve your problems, but they clean the air around you, are great listeners that grow with your voice, invite compassion and a calming presence, and are easier to care for than you’d guess.  A natural reminder not to over-complicate or overthink. All are welcome.

Returning fall term and throughout the year, the Center for Spiritual and Religious Life will again welcome students and employees to share programs and space that support their spiritual expression.

Taize’
Open Houses, Water Drops & Spiritual Library
Intersections
Meditation
Open Movement
Community Conversations
Worship Communities
Fourth Friday Lunches (employees only)
Holiday Encouragements
Student Religious Groups
Spiritual Support Groups
CORE meeting space
Tai Chi, Mondays in Warch: led by Linda Morgan-Clement

We hope you will join us in sharing ours as well as your own spiritual practices.