Tuesday, May 6, 4:15 pm, Upper Campus Center

PSA is having a dinner with the SSJE monks in Harvard Square! Service and dinner provided. Check out the facebook event for more information and contact emma.levitt@tufts.edu if you plan on attending.

May 8-9, Episcopal Divinity School

Register for Episcopal Divinity School's Almuni/ae Days and Kellogg Lectures. The theme of these days is: What is Justice? Dr. Phyllis Trible will be lecturing on The Justice of Storytelling. Visit this site for more information.

Friday, May 16, 1pm, Interfaith Center

For more information, contact Muslim Chaplain Naila Baloch at Naila.Baloch@tufts.edu or (617) 627-2065.

Friday, May 16, 6pm, Granoff Family Hillel Center

Reform and Conservative Services begin at 6pm in the Granoff Family Hillel Center. Dinner starts at 7:30pm at the Granoff Family Hillel Center: Adults $18; Children under 10 $8; Tufts students (except seniors) $5. Reserve online.

Saturday, May 17, 10:30am, Granoff Family Hillel Center

Morning service and lunch will take place at the Granoff Family Hillel Center beginning at 10:30am. For more information, call Tufts Hillel at (617) 627-3242.

Saturday, May 17, 3 pm, Gantcher Center

The traditional Baccalaureate Service for graduating seniors at Tufts began in 1865. "Baccalaureate" means a sermon to a graduating class, and for most of Tufts' history the inspirational message has been delivered by the University President. The address is the President¹s final opportunity to exhort and enlighten members of the senior class before they receive their bachelor¹s degrees and leave campus as alumni/ae. The senior student who has won the Wendell Phillips Award also speaks. In recent years, Baccalaureate has become an interfaith celebration, with all of the university chaplains and students from Tufts' main religious and philosophical communities participating. Hymns and music are also offered by soloists and instrumentalists. Graduating seniors process in caps and gowns, and family and friends are invited to attend. The Baccalaureate Service lasts about one hour and no tickets are necessary for admission. Seniors should align for the processional with caps and gowns at 2:30 p.m. inside the Gantcher Center.

Saturday, May 17, 5:30 pm, Goddard Chapel

Please join us for liturgy as we send forth our graduates and welcome home alumni and families. All are welcome and, as always, come as you are. Followed by a reception with light refreshments. For more information, please contact Catholic Chaplain Lynn Cooper at Lynn.Cooper@tufts.edu.

Saturday, May 17, 10:45pm, Mayer Campus Center Patio

The candlelight procession for graduating seniors begins at 10:45pm on the Mayer Campus Center patio. Students will process to the Goddard Chapel Terrace where, at 11pm, the Top of the Hill Tribute/Illumination Ceremony takes place. This is a ceremonial welcome to Tufts' newest alumni, the Class of 2014. Call the office of Alumni Relations at (617) 627-3526 for more information about this event and other alumni weekend activities, or visit the Alumni Relations website. 

Sunday, May 18, 9am, The Green

For information about Commencement, read the Commencement Day Schedule of Events.

Join Washington National Cathedral's LGBT ministry group for a weeklong spiritual pilgrimage and field course in El Salvador this summer! From July 7-14, 2015, participants will learn about the historic human rights movement of El Salvador while also examining the unique role of the Anglican-Episcopal Church within the local LGBT community. For further details, including a preliminary itinerary, please refer to their online flyer. 

New professionals and students seeking cross-cultural, communication, and community-building experiences this summer should know about the Pluralism Project's ultimate menu of opportunities across America. The growing resource offers the pertinent information for a swath of organizational programs from national faith headquarters to thriving faith-based advocacy start-ups. Whether creating public policy or building databases for networks around the country, these gigs are worth a look.

Interfaith Leadership Institutes (ILIs) equip undergraduate students, staff, and faculty with the skills to engage diverse religious and non-religious identities to build the interfaith movement on their campuses. New York ILI: June 21-23, 2014, apply by June 5. Chicago ILI: August 10-12, 2014, apply by July 24. Atlanta ILI: January 30 - February 1, 2015, apply starting in September. Los Angeles ILI: February 14-16, 2015, apply starting in September. For more information, visit the website. 

At IFYI, participants explore and embrace their own leadership and peacemaking styles, becoming agents of positive social transformation in their schools, communities, and congregations.  This year's IFYI theme is "Repairing Our Broken World."  Each summer, Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries (CMM) offers this eight-day peacemaking and leadership development program with a mix of community building, workshops, and service-learning experiences.  Throughout the week, youth express their visions of faith, justice, and peace through visual art, poetry/spoken word, theological reflection, dance, drama, and film. For the brochure and application please follow this link.

September 19-20, 2014, Princeton University

Poverty and Peacemaking will bring together religious leaders, scholars, practitioners, community partners, government and agency representatives, students, and philanthropists, to think together about foundational and connected issues of shared concern. In particular, our focus will be the role of poverty alleviation as a critical component in the building of peace. For more information, please visit this website, or connect through their facebook page.

The Hindu American Seva Communities will host the 2014 National Seva Conference in the nation's capital. The conference is to be held the first week of October 2014. The theme of the gathering is Dharmic Dialogues: Seva and Social Justice. For more information, see this flyer.

Association of College and University Religious Affairs Annual Conference

Sunday, October 26 - Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The Tufts University Chaplaincy is honored to be hosting the Annual Conference of the Association of College and University Religious Affairs (ACURA) from Sunday, October 26 through Tuesday, October 28, 2014. ACURA is a national collegium of higher education chaplains and deans and directors of religious and spiritual life. It is an interfaith association that includes representatives of some 30 institutions and is open to all who are employed or appointed by universities and colleges to serve in these roles. 

The conference will start with dinner on October 26 and conclude after dinner on October 28. The theme of the conference will be "Intersectionality, Borders and Frontiers in Higher Ed Spiritual Life." We will focus on emerging areas of our work including: the spiritual but not religious, active citizenship and internationalism in a changing world, Humanism, and theological education for diverse chaplaincies. We will also have an opportunity to explore some of the history and culture of the Boston area, such as the Freedom Trail, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, and Concord sites such as the North Bridge, the Old Manse, and Walden Pond. It should be foliage season, which makes New England especially beautiful. 

A block of rooms at a reduced rate has been reserved at the Hilton Homewood Suites Hotel at 1 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, MA 02474 until 9/14/14. Suites are $225 per night; (781) 643-7258; GROUP CODE: ACU. The hotel offers complementary breakfast, wifi, parking, and fitness and business centers, as well as frequent MBTA bus service to Harvard Square and the Alewife Red Line station. It is a one-mile walk from Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus (van service will be provided for conferees). 

A link to register for the conference (including day registration) will be available soon. For more information, please contact chaplaincy@tufts.edu.