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NCF/ IV Thanksgiving Dinner
Thursday, November 20, 7 pm, Interfaith Center, 58 Winthrop St.
The Nondenominational Christian Fellowship and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship have teamed up to put on a big Thanksgiving Dinner and want to invite everyone to join them. Feel free to attend if you are interested! The dinner will feature traditional New England "Thanksgiving" dinner and dessert as well as other cultural dishes from around the world. We are also inviting Tufts custodial staff to be our honored guests, so come get to know some of the people who serve us so well all year long! We hope you can join us in celebrating the spirit of Thanksgiving together.
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| Being Muslim is Being Me is a blog designed to raise awareness about the diverse Muslims in our community here at Tufts. The hope is to show Islam in a more real and personable context, to help change stereotypical perceptions of Islam, especially as portrayed in the media. Each week a different member of the Tufts community will be featured, and posts will include a transcribed interview and photos. If you have any comments, questions, or would like to be featured, please email Samira Manzur and Natasha Khwaja at beingmuslimisbeingme@gmail.com.
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| Religious and Philosophical Life Programs Exploring Tufts' Faith Scene: A Series
Hindu Students Council
Tuesday, November 18, 5:15 pm, Goddard Chapel
Meet at Hillel at 5 pm to get to Goddard by 5:15 pm.
AmericanISH: Student Perspectives on Being Members of Islam, Sikhism, and Hinduism
Wednesday, November 19, 6:30 pm, Start House
What do these three religions have in common? Come to the Start House at 6:30pm on November 19th to find out! Learn and discuss at "AmericanISH" -- sponsored by the Asian American Center and the University Chaplaincy, featuring Peer Leaders from each faith sharing their own experiences. More information can be found here. The Case of Native Americans - Sponsored by Tufts Against Genocide
Thursday, November 20, 7 pm, Granoff 155
Join Tufts Against Genocide, a project of Tufts Hillel, for an evening with Donna Edmonds Mitchell, also know as Minoweh Ikidowin, to learn about the genocide of the Native Americans. Mitchell is a speaker and storyteller, who will discuss the history of colonization, the King Phillips war, and its enduring genocidal ramifications on the Native Americans of New England. As we approach Thanksgiving, TAG hopes this will allow the Tufts community to fully engage with our history. Only with full understanding of the past can we be thankful for what we have in the present.
NCF/ IV Thanksgiving Dinner
Thursday, November 20, 7 pm, Interfaith Center, 58 Winthrop St.
The Nondenominational Christian Fellowship and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship have teamed up to put on a big Thanksgiving Dinner and want to invite everyone to join them. Feel free to attend if you are interested! The dinner will feature traditional New England "Thanksgiving" dinner and dessert as well as other cultural dishes from around the world. We are also inviting Tufts custodial staff to be our honored guests, so come get to know some of the people who serve us so well all year long! We hope you can join us in celebrating the spirit of Thanksgiving together. More info here.
Sexuality and Judaism Part II: Sexual Identities - Sponsored by Tufts Hillel
Friday, November 21, Noon-1 pm, Tufts Hillel Upstairs Chapel
On Friday, November 21st, Vitality, along with JQuest, will be hosting the second part of our Sexuality and Judaism Lunch and Learn series. From 12pm-1pm, join us for lunch and a discussion with Rabbi Summit about sexual identities as seen through a Jewish lens. We hope to see you there!
Pride Shabbat - Sponsored by Tufts Hillel
Friday, November 21, 5 pm Discussion, 6 pm Services, 7:15 pm Dinner
Come join us at Hillel for a great night of community, learning, awareness, and food! Friday, November 21st is Pride Shabbat! There will be a pre-discussion at 5 pm, which will take the form of an excellent and interactive conversation in which two women, Vivian Shapiro and Noemi Masliah, will speak with us about their experiences as Jewish individuals who also identify as gay women. Services will follow at 6 pm and dinner at 7:15 pm. We hope you will join us at this important and meaningful evening!
Exploring Tufts' Faith Scene: A Series
Latter Day Saints Students Association
Sunday, November 23, 2 pm, Longfellow Park
2 pm at 2 Longfellow Park in Cambridge, MA.
Hymn Sing - Sponsored by the Protestant Students Association
Sunday, November 30, 7 pm, Goddard Chapel
Decorate Goddard Chapel for Christmas!
Monday, December 1, 9:30 am-Noon, Goddard Chapel
All are welcome to come decorate Goddard Chapel for Christmas. Do you miss decorating at home while away at college? Come de-stress and decorate Goddard in a beautiful Victorian style. Hot chocolate, Christmas cookies, and Christmas music will be shared. To sign up or for more information please contact Zachary.Cole@tufts.edu.
Tufts University Chaplaincy Annual Holiday Concert
Wednesday, December 3, 4:30 pm, Goddard Chapel
The Tufts University Chaplaincy will present its annual holiday concert featuring the Tufts Concert Choir under the direction of Jamie Kirsch as well as other musicians from across campus. The concert will include a carol sing along, and will be followed by a reception of warm cider, hot tea, and goodies in celebration of the season. All are welcome. For more information, please contact the Tufts University Chaplaincy at chaplaincy@tufts.edu.
Weekly Dharma Study - Mindfulness, Reflections, and Discussions
Mondays, Noon-1 pm, Goddard Chapel
Will begin with a few moments of silence/mindfulness meditation. Passages/Readings will be selected from across Buddhist literature (ancient Pali/Sanskrit to modern Zen) and beyond. Discussions will focus on reflecting on life through these readings - how to make use of the insights from these texts in daily life. Anybody and everybody is welcome. No prior experience required. Tea will be available. Sponsored by the Tufts University Chaplaincy. For more information, please email upali.sraman@tufts.edu. Weekly Guided Meditation and Tea
Fridays, Noon-1 pm, Goddard Chapel: 11/21, 12/5
Join Venerable Upali Sraman, Chaplaincy Intern, for an hour of guided meditation, followed by conversation, tea, and light snacks. Various forms of meditation will be led. Sponsored by the Tufts University Chaplaincy. For more information, please email upali.sraman@tufts.edu.
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Off Campus Programs SIT350: A Public Meditation to Raise Awareness About Climate Change - Sponsored by the Northeastern University Buddhist Group
Saturday, November 22, 1-3 pm, Copley Square green
Open to local campus groups and organizations. Learn more here. Thanksgiving Interfaith Meal-Packing
Sunday, November 23, 1:30-5 pm, 30 JFK St.
Join us and other religious and nonreligious communities and individuals from across the greater Boston area in a day of interfaith service designed to help end hunger in New England. 1:30-5:00, 30 JFK Street. Read more here.
Interfaith Peace Vigil: Building Pathways to Peace
Sabbath Weekend, Wednesday, December 10, 6:30-7:30 pm; Medford City Hall
Join the Medford faith communities in calling for an end to violence in our schools as we pause to remember the second anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings in Newtown, CT. There have been over 22,000 deaths due to gun violence in the US since the tragedy on December 14, 2014, including 205 children killed in gun violence in 2014 alone. Join us in honoring their memories by recommitting our community to the sacred task of building pathways to peace.
Sponsored by Grace Church's Peace Team In partnership with the 2014 National Vigil for Gun Violence Victims and National Gun Violence Prevention
Faith-to-Faith, Face-to-Face: It's All About Relationships - A Lecture by Eboo Patel sponsored by CIRCLE
Tuesday, December 9, 7:30 pm, Wilson Chapel at Andover Newton Theological School 210 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459
Andover Newton and Hebrew College formed CIRCLE (the Center for Inter-Religious and Communal Leadership Education) in 2008 to build genuine relationships between future ministers and rabbis who serve their call in a world often divided along religious lines. CIRCLE has expanded over the years to bring Muslim community fellows to the Hill and to allow rising religious leaders venues for personal writing and academic publishing online. Join Andover Newton, Hebrew College, and CIRCLE as we welcome activist and author Eboo Patel on Tuesday, Dec. 9, for a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in Wilson Chapel. Patel's work as founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core has taken him to the TEDx stage, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, as well as to President Obama's inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships. For more information on Eboo Patel, you can watch his TEDx talk here.
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Partner Programs Students Against Mass Incarceration
Tuesday, November 18, 9 pm, Aidekman 12
Students Against Mass Incarceration is a new group of students troubled by the system of mass incarceration in the United States and willing to work to bring its end. We are still in the process of deciding our direction and planning for next semester and invite anyone concerned about mass incarceration to join us!
Ferguson Teach-In - Sponsored by Tufts LGBT Center
Friday, November 21 at 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Terrace Room
Please join the Tufts CSRD for our Ferguson Teach-In. Collectively we'll discuss contemporary issues of racial/social justice and connect the relevance of Ferguson to local issues of poverty, unemployment, and mass incarceration. Through community panels, the teach-in should help promote research-based conversations about racial justice at Tufts and equip participants with strategies to act locally on racial justice issues.
Panel Times:
1:00-2:15 Students and Political Activism in the Wake of Ferguson
2:30-3:45 Ferguson in Context: Race, State Violence, and Civil Rights
4:00-5:15 Resistance after Ferguson: Combating Structural Racism in the 21st Century
Feel free to attend as much or as little as you can!
In Commemoration of World AIDS Day - Sponsored by Tufts LGBT Center
Friday, December 5, LGBT Center, 226 College Ave.
At the Tufts LGBT Center, we will commemorate World AIDS Day with a marathon of recent documentaries that chronicle the complex history of homophobia, racism, and stigma that have characterized the epidemic since its earliest days. Each of these films carries its own political investments and each approaches the history of HIV/AIDS from different perspectives. We encourage folks to stop by for some or all of a film. As you reflect on the powerful and emotional narratives of activists, survivors, and those who have lost so much to AIDS, we encourage you to critically engage with the films. We will also display images from a panel of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt created by Tufts community members on World AIDS Day in 2011 and have some supplies available for folks to make commemorative panels on 8x10 paper to be “quilted” and displayed in the Center, dedicated to those who have been impacted by HIV/AIDS in our lives. All are welcome!
10 am - How to Survive a Plague
12 pm - United in Anger
2 pm - We Were Here
4 pm - Endgame: AIDS in Black America
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Resources, Scholarships, and Opportunities
Volunteer at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter this Winter Season!
Friday, December 19 - Monday, January 26; Harvard Square Homeless Shelter
Looking to share some holiday cheer? The shelter and our guests would love to have your help at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter! No previous experience or training required--just a willingness to lend a helping hand. Shifts are as short as 2 hours--a map of our location can be found here, and sign ups can be done here. We are always in need of extra hands over school holidays. We hope you will join us! If you have any questions, feel free to send an email to Kathleen Koenigs, Volunteer Director, at hshs.volunteer@gmail.com
Coming Together
February 12-15, 2015
Coming Together is an opportunity for members of student interfaith or multi-faith councils to gather and swap notes about what it means to be in community with one another in a campus setting. It will involve several panels, keynotes and breakout sessions that will engage on a variety of issues such as the unique challenges and advantages of building interfaith communities on a university campus, strategies for sustaining spiritual wellbeing and the role of religious identity in the educational landscape.
Each college or university is invited to nominate up to three students to be part of CT7. Nominations are due no later than November 21. Email Greg McGonigle if you are interested in participating. All students will receive free room and board.
Tufts Hillel Innovation Grants
Apply now at bit.ly/TuftsHillelGrant! Tufts Hillel Innovation Grants empower students with resources and support to plan and execute independent Jewish programming for the Tufts community. Successful events may be small or large, religious or secular, cultural or political, one-time or ongoing. Our hope is that the Innovation Grants will contribute to the diversity of Jewish activities on campus and provide a platform for anyone with an idea to make it a reality.
Don't worry if you're still tweaking your ideas--Program Associate Raechel Banks is available to work with you no matter what stage you find yourself in! If your application is selected for funding, you will be paired with Raechel to receive support as you move forward with your program.
For more information, contact Raechel at raechel.banks@tufts.edu or 617-627-3242. Applications are now available for 2015-2016 ACE Fellows!
Apply to be an Academic and Community Engagement – ACE – Fellow! ACEs act as academic and community role models, assist first-year students in learning about campus resources, and help to create a welcoming community for new students’ personal development. Fellows live free of charge in their assigned residence halls and work an average of 10 hours per week during the academic year. Check out the ACE website<http://uss.tufts.edu/studentConnection/FirstYear/about/ace.asp> for more information and to download the application, due December 1. Start South - Servie Trip to Israel - December 22, 2014 - January 1, 2015
This December, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Hillel International, Ayalim Student Association and local residents will come together to showcase the exceptional strength, resilience and creativity of Israel's southern communities. We invite you to join us for an unforgettable 10-day experience that will tap into your creative side as we explore the cultural landscape of Israel's south.The trip will culminate in a huge arts and culture festival in Sderot that YOU will take a lead role in organizing, in collaboration with local residents. The festival will feature prominent Israeli cultural figures alongside local talent and leadership. Apply now by clicking here to view the flyer.
Seeds of Peace - For Commited Ambassitors of Peace and Understanding
Seeds of Peace (SOP) works to support young Palestinians and Israelis to become leaders of peace. Based on the belief that “treaties are negotiated by governments; peace is made by people,” SOP brings together youth, and community educators, from both sides of intractable conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia to provide an opportunity to make deep connections with ‘the other side.’ While difficult work goes into these connections, they help transform the ways participants understand their conflict and the changes needed to create a viable peace. Once participants return home, SOP continues to offer critical support as they endeavor to become leaders of change. We will need people with varied skillsets, from graphic design, event planning, marketing, fundraising, and beyond, so no matter what your background, we would love to have you on board. If you or someone you know would be interested, please contact, tufts alum, Ati Waldman (ati.waldman@gmail.com) and Sarah Blinka (sarah.blinka@gmail.com).
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| Counseling and Mental Health Services - Free and Confidential Groups- Relationships Group: Fridays, 1:15-2:15 pm, 10/3/14-12/5/14
- Survivors Support Group: Education, Connection, Healing - Wednesdays, 12-1:15 pm, 10/15/14-12/3/14
- Healthy Body Image Group: Tuesdays, 3-4:30 pm, 9/30/14-11/18/14
- Returning Students Group: Wednesdays, 12-1:15 pm, 9/3/14-10/8/14
- Coping with Loss: Mondays, 12-1:15 pm, 10/8/14-12/3/14
- Lunchtime Connection: Coping with Loss Group - Monday, 12 pm, 9/29/14
- Connections: International Student Discussion Group: Fridays, 3:30-4:30 pm, 10/3, 11/7 &12/5
- Anxiety and Stress Reduction Group: Session 1 - Fridays 10/3/14-10/31/14, 10:30-11:45 am, Session 2 - Wednesdays, 11/5/14-12/10/14, 10:30-11:45 am
For more information on each group, click here.
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Weekly Gatherings
Baha'i: Please see our website for student leader contact information
Buddhist: Thursdays, 8:30-10 am, Goddard Chapel; Sundays, 7 pm, Rabb Room, Lincoln-Filene Center
CAFE/Interfaith: Tuesdays (9/30, 10/14, 10/21, 11/11), 6 pm, MacPhie Conference Room, Dewick Dining Hall
Catholic: Mass: Sundays, 10 pm, Goddard Chapel, Reconciliation or Contemplative Prayer: Friday, 3-5 pm, Interfaith Center, Pizza and Prayer: Every other Friday (starting 9/19), 6:30 pm, Interfaith Center
Christian Scientist: Please see our website for student leader contact information.
Freethought/Humanist: Weekly Discussion Meetings: Thursdays, 7:30 pm, Eaton Hall 202; Please see their calendar for jam sessions, community dinners, and other events
Hindu: Tuesdays, 5-6:30 pm, Goddard Chapel
Jewish: Conservative & Reform Shabbat Services: Fridays, 6 pm; Saturdays, 10:30 am, Granoff Family Hillel Center; Hillel Shabbat Dinner: Fridays, 7:15 pm, Granoff Family Hillel Center; Chabad Shabbat Dinner: Fridays, 6:45 pm, Rohr Chabad House; Chabad Shabbat Service: Fridays, 7:30 pm, Rohr Chabad House
Latter Day Saints: Thursdays, 8 pm, Hillside 120
Mainline/Progressive Protestant: Worship Service: Sundays, 7 pm, Goddard Chapel; Book Group: Mondays, Noon, Tower Cafe; Noonday Prayer and Lunch: Wednesdays, Noon, Interfaith Center; Spiritual Formation Small Group (Compline): Thursdays, 9:15 pm, Goddard Chapel
Muslim: Jumah Prayer: Fridays, 1:15 pm, Interfaith Center; Chaplain Facilitated Qur'an and Arabic Circles: Fridays, 2:15-3 pm, Interfaith Center
Non-denominational Protestant: Thursdays, 7:30-9 pm, Interfaith Center
Orthodox Christian: Mondays, 8 pm, Campus Center, Room 207
Seventh Day Adventist: Mondays, 7-8 pm, Campus Center, Room 012
Sikh: Please see our website for student leader contact information
Unitarian Universalist: Thursdays, 8:30-9:30 pm, Interfaith Center
For information about communities not listed, please contact the University Chaplaincy at chaplaincy@tufts.edu
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| University Chaplaincy in Photos - October 2014
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| Eid
The Muslim Students Association (MSA) hosted their annual Eid celebration on October 17. Linda Sansour (left image) was the guest speaker. She is the CEO of the Arab American Association of New York and was designated the White House Champion of Change. She spoke on "Leadership and Active Citizenship as a Muslim in America."
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| Diwali
The Hindu Students Council (HSC) celebrated Diwali, the festival of lights, on October 24 with a Diwali Puja (prayer service), which included prayer, music, dance, and dinner.
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| ACURA
Tufts hosted the Association for College and University Religious Affairs (ACURA) Conference from October 26-28. ACURA is a national collegium made up of chaplains, deans and directors of religious and spiritual life in higher education. Over 80 leaders of spiritual life from campuses across the country were in attendance.
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| About the University Chaplaincy Enews
The University Chaplaincy Enews is published weekly by the Tufts University Chaplaincy to promote programs and opportunities related to spirituality, ethics, culture, and social justice. To propose announcements for inclusion please contact chaplaincy@tufts.edu.
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The Tufts University Chaplaincy is a dynamic hub supporting religious, spiritual, ethical, and cultural life for all members of the Tufts community. We provide pastoral care, support religious and philosophical communities, educate about spiritual and ethical issues in society and the world, and promote multifaith engagement.
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