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Collaborations Shape CRSL’s Spring Semester

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Kim Alston
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The spring semester was a whirlwind of spirited activity. Many collaborative ventures stretched our intellect, consciousness, and empathy, including the Engaging Identity series with the Wellness Education Office; The Refugee Resettlement Project with the Jandon Center for Community Engagement; the … Continue reading →

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Student Advisory Board Strives for Inclusion and Advocacy

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Chapel Student
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The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life’s Student Advisory Board is a group of students that gather to advise the Center on a variety of things. Part of our job is to help plan events, like vigils and contemplative spaces, … Continue reading →

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Black Lives Matter:
A Global Decentralized Movement

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Lizzie Stephani '18J
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The Meridians, a feminist and interdisciplinary journal, hosted a dialogue Friday, October 14 on the Black Lives Matter Movement in John M. Greene Hall as the keynote event of the symposium “When and Where I Enter.” The event was co-sponsored … Continue reading →

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MLK & Justice, Identity, and Social Change Initiative (Part 1)

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Matilda Cantwell
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Over January Term (or J-term), two students participated in a fellowship for with our Center as part of our Justice, Identity, and Social Change (JISC) initiative. These students, Raven Fowlkes-Witten and Lucy Tucker, serve on our JISC advisory board. The … Continue reading →

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Black Lives Matter Panel: We the Protestors

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Chapel Student
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On Monday, a conversation called “We the Protesters: Policy, Discourse and the Movement for Black Lives” was held in Weinstein Auditorium, hosting a panel featuring Fordham University Political Science Professor Christina Greer, Columbia University History and Sociomedical Sciences Professor Samuel … Continue reading →

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The Justice, Identity, and Social Change Initiative:
Spiritual Life Meets Social Justice

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Matilda Cantwell
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  It feels like the World is burning. This is what Sensei Ryumon Baldoquin, Community Religious Adviser, said at our first “Peace Meal,” a gathering for dialogue and discussion of difficult problems. Certainly in the last few weeks, with the … Continue reading →

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Our Inescapable Network of Mutuality

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Matilda Cantwell
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Amidst the cacophony of all that I am reading, hearing, and taking in response to the verdict in the Ferguson Grand Jury deliberation,—which I am, like many of us, just barely beginning to sort through—I have little, if anything, different or new … Continue reading →

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