Tuesday, 11/29, 7:30-8:30 pm, Multifaith Center

Spiritual teacher Mary Grigolia will lead a workshop on making whatever winter holidays you celebrate more meaningful by interacting with Cal Jung's 12 stages of individuation, one stage per day, from the winter solstice December 21 through New Year's Day. For all spiritual paths.

Sponsored by the Oberlin Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and ORSL.

For more information please contact Rev. Mary Grigolia.

There is an online Advent devotional created by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Episcopal Church. Please visit it here.

Saturdays, 1:30-3:30 pm, Asia House Multipurpose Room (Basement)

Experience the gifts of different cultures and spiritual traditions. Explore the integration of mind, body, and spirit. Grow in wholeness and celebrate being fully alive. Sacred Dance: Pathway to Wellbeing is designed to open you to this experience. remaining session topics are listed below. All are invited. All are welcome. For more information please contact Jessie Ferriols.

12/3 The Divine Feminine/Earth-Based Spiritualities

12/10 Synthesis, Integration and Celebration

Sunday, 12/11, 2 pm, Wilder Main

Sponsored by Professors Shulmit Magnus and Ari Ofengenden

Sunday, 12/11, 7-9 pm, Warner Concert Hall

Featuring vocal soloists and string players from the Oberlin Conservatory. Admission is free; donations will be accepted to benefit Lorian County Interfaith Hospitality Network. 

For more information please contact Prof. Peter Slowik.

Monday-Friday, 12/12-16, 11:30 am-1:30 pm, Oberlin College Science Center

Tuesday, 12/13, 7 pm, West Lecture Hall

HAPPY takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy. Combining real life stories of people from around the world and powerful interviews with the leading scientists in happiness research, HAPPY explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion. Check out the website. Free and open to the public. Organized by the Practicum in Joy ExCo and the Oberlin Fun Squad and co-sponsored by ORSL.

Sunday, 1/15, 5-6 pm, Finney Chapel

Planning meeting being held December 1, 4:30-5:30 pm. To get involved please contact Sandra Hodge.

• Back Bay Mission, Biloxi, Mississippi
• Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
• Hyaets, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Metro Baptist Church, New York, New York
• New Orleans, LA 
• Kirkwood Baptist Church, St. Louis, Missouri
• Wellspring United Church of Christ, Centreville, Virginia

How do you want to spend your winter term? Would you like to spend time on retreat in a Christian or Buddhist monastery, travel to sacred sites around the world, intern with a religious leader or a faith-based social justice organization, or just take time to read and explore your own spiritual and ethical beliefs? Each year the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life sponsors a number of students undertaking winter term projects in these and other relevant areas. We invite you to consider doing you winter term with us. Please visit our Winter Term website and for more information please contact Rev. Greg McGonigle.

Interfaith Leadership Institute January 12-15 in Atlanta, GA

Application Deadline: ASAP

To apply, click here.

In a tight cohort of 3-5 students, participants will study and discuss theories of interreligious engagement and pluralism while collaborating on an intensive group project: developing the curriculum, media and publications, and professional network for Interfaith Appalachia, a new interfaith education and service program that seeks to build interreligious relationships through learning and service in Appalachia. Working with the directors of the Bonner Center for Service and Learning (Beth Blissman), the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (Greg McGonigle), and Interfaith Appalachia (David Fisher), participants will engage in three modules, including seminar study in Oberlin, an interfaith networking trip to New York City, and time working on individual portfolios. Participants will have the opportunity to help launch Interfaith Appalachia, a new interfaith service learning project with great potential for transforming religious, cultural, political, socioeconomic, and environmental relations, while also deepening their understandings of interfaith leadership and meeting key leaders in the world of interfaith engagement. For more information please contact David Fisher.

During Winter Term of 2011-12, Dance Diaspora, Oberlin's premier semi-professional West African Dance troupe, and Ilu Aiye, Oberlin's West African Drumming and Singing organization members  Nicollette Buckle'13, Brieanna Frye'13, Leanna Frye'13, Vanessa Champagne'13, and Jasmine Nunez '13 intend to travel to the Senegambia (Senegal, Guinea, Gambia) region of West Africa to study West African dances, rhythms, and songs. In the Senegambia, members of Dance Diaspora and Ilu Aiye will have several workshops with professional dancers and master drummers that include: dancing with Jaina Family Dancers of the Mandinka  and Wolofnation and Alasone Somak and Senee Jaima of the SouSou nation in Guinea, and learning drum rhythms and songs from Aboubacar Mbeng. For three weeks, we will train eight hours a day, seven days a week, on the compounds of the dance and drum instructors. 
          Our time in the compounds learning the sacred traditions of these ethnic groups and internalizing what we are taught will help us to bring a part of SeneGambian Culture to Oberlin College. We are writing you to solicit your support with the hope that you would contribute a minimum of $100.00 to the cost of this trip. Our goal is to raise enough to cover the  $12,080.00 budgeted cost for the 6 participants by December 10, 2011. We have contacted other student organizations and College departments for financial help. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Vanessa Champagne.  We depend largely on fundraising within the Oberlin College community. Any amount you can give to this project is helpful.  

7/22-8/8, Princeton University

An intensive workshop for undergraduates on Jewish texts, thought, and perspectives on the great questions of human life. Outstanding faculty and senior lecturers from multiple universities will lead the seminar, focusing on the topics of Tradition and Authority, Evil and Suffering, Love and Desire, God and Politics, and the Future of Jews and Judaism. The program will include lectures, discussions, focused text study, and individual mentoring. Dorm accommodations and kosher meals will be provided throughout the program. There is no fee and students will be offered a $1000 stipend. Need-based travel stipends are also available. For more information please click here.