OSRL is currently working with Dashboard, a nonprofit arts agency that uses art and imagination to transform public spaces, to outfit the new Emory Interfaith Center with unique artwork that reflects the center's culture, goals, spiritual communities. OSRL and our partners at Dashboard invite you to provide input into what art you envision in the center. You can provide input here.

Earlier this month, OSRL held in-person engagment sessions for students, faculty, staff, and affiliates with Dashboard. This survey presents questions intended to follow the same creative visioning processes through which Emory community members shared their hopes for the center. 

Learn more about the Emory Interfaith Center here. Fill out the survey here. For questions, email religiouslife@emory.edu.

Emory University King Week is a series of programs offered in January by various Emory units to honor the life and legacy of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. Programs include educational lectures, spiritual events, community service projects, celebrations, and exhibits.

See a full list of programs on the King Week website here.

Additional information is added below as it becomes available. For more information, please contact religiouslife@emory.edu.

Join Beloved Community for worship and lunch on MLK Sunday. Rev. Tolton Pace 00C 02PH will be preaching. Rev. Pace serves as the manager of strategic partnerships and grant programs for the Home Depot Foundation. He also serves on the clergy team at Impact United Methodist Church. Rev. Pace is an engaged Emory alumnus, previously serving as co-president of Caucus of Emory Black Alumni (CEBA). 

Emory Beloved Community is a weekly ecumenical Protestant worship service planned for the campus community that gathers Sundays at 11:00 a.m. during the academic year. All are welcome.

For more information, please contact religiouslife@emory.edu.

Welcoming Interfaith and Spiritual Exploration (WISE)
Pre-Orientation Student Coordinator Position Opportunity

OSRL is hiring Student Coordinators to lead the Peer Mentor team for our 2023 WISE Pre-Orientation. The WISE Student Coordinator is a paid, part-time role starting in February 2023 through August 2023. The position requires 4-5 hours per week during the Spring 2023 semester starting in February, a few hours per month in the summer, and an increased time commitment starting during the second week of August during final pre-orientation preparations and for the Peer Mentor training and the WISE program (August 14-19). 

Apply and view the position description here. Deadline to apply is January 16, 2023. 

Learn more about the WISE program here. Information about WISE Peer Mentor positions will be available late January 2023.

Please email caroline.penfield@emory.edu with any questions.

Winter Holidays at Emory
December 2022

Join the Emory community in celebrating winter holidays with music, art and special religious services. Learn more here. 

This week at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church:

Upcoming Religious Holidays
These events are drawn from the multifaith calendar maintained by the Office of Religious andSpiritual Life at Harvard Divinity School. To see more upcoming religious holidays and festivals, please click here. 

Advent
Sun., Nov. 27 – Fri., Dec. 23, 2022
Tradition: Christianity-Protestant, Christianity-Roman Catholic

Period of four weeks in which Christians prepare for Christmas and reflect on the end of time. In Western churches, the first Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of the Christian liturgical year.

Hanukkah
Sun., Dec. 18 – Mon., Dec. 26, 2022
Tradition: Judaism

The Festival of Lights is celebrated for eight days to commemorate the rededication of the Temple following the Jewish people's victory over occupying forces in 165 BCE, which re-established for a time their religious and political freedom.

Yule
Tue., Dec. 20, 2022
Tradition: Wicca/Paganism

The Winter Solstice, celebrating the longest night and the blessings of darkness as well as the rebirth of the sun god. Begins at sundown.

Christmas
Sun., Dec. 25, 2022
Tradition: Christianity-Protestant, Christianity-Roman Catholic

Celebrates the anniversary of the birth of Jesus.December 25 is the date of this observance for Roman Catholic, Protestant, and many Orthodox Christian churches.

Death of Prophet Zarathustra
Mon., Dec. 26, 2022
Tradition: Zoroastrianism

The anniversary of the death of the founder of the Zoroastrian faith.

Birthday of Guru Gobind Sing Ji
Thu., Dec. 29, 2022
Tradition: Sikhism

Guru Gobind Singh Ji (1666-1708), the 10th and final Sikh master, created the Khalsa, the "Brotherhood of the Pure," and declared the Scriptures, the Adi 'Granth, to be the Sikh's Guru from that time on.