Begins Tuesday, 8/28, 10 am, Allen Art Museum

Opening Reception: Thursday, 9/6, 5-8 pm, Allen Art Museum

Friday, 8/31, 2:30-4 pm, Wilder 112

Come hear about religious and spiritual life at Oberlin, including interfaith opportunities. Meet leaders of campus and local religious and philosophical communities. All are welcome. Sponsored by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life.

Saturday, 9/1, 9:20 am-3 pm, Starting from Tappan Square

Part of the Orientation Day of Service sponsored by the BCSL, ORSL will lead an interfaith service site at Eden Vision in Elyria--a local not-profit that focuses on youth development through community gardening. Students who have not already registered for the Day of Service can still register that morning.

Sunday, 9/9, 2-4 pm, Thwing Center, 11111 Euclid Ave., Case Western

Free parking in Ford Road garage

A multifaith gathering with music, dance, food, exhibits, family activities, and conversation.

Planned by Interreligious Peace Makers and co-sponsored by ORSL

Monday, 9/10, 4:30-6 pm, Wilder Bowl (Rain Site: Science Center)

Come visit ORSL and campus and local religious and philosophical communities at the Connections Fair, Oberlin's annual student activities fair. Community service and wellness opportunities will also be featured.

Begins Tuesday, 9/11, 4:45-6 pm, Apply to Greg McGonigle

Apply at the ExCo Fair Wednesday, 9/5, 6-8 pm, Root Room

This course explores interfaith leadership--the skills and knowledges that are necessary to build bridges across differences of religions and philosophies through five pathways: friendship and hospitality, dialogue and education, service and activism, ritual and celebration, and the arts and music. We also explore the meaning of religious pluralism through the work of some of its proponents and critics. This is a community-based learning course that includes personal sharing and community projects. Students will deepen in their understanding of the interfaith movement and be supported to continue their engagement beyond the course.

First Class: Tuesday, 9/11, 6:30-8 pm, Meet in Wilder Hall Lobby

Regular Time: Saturdays, 9/15-12/8, 2-4 pm, Multifaith Center

Neuroscience, physics, biology, epigenetics--what are their connections to spirituality? Explore, embody, and celebrate the integration of mind, body, and spirit in sacred dance. Grow in wholeness and live fully alive. This course will include information sharing and discussion, meditation, singing, and dancing to the sacred phrases of major world spiritual traditions. To take this course for credit, register at the ExCo Fair. Others can come to the first or second class. For more information please contact Jessie Ferriols at jferriols@frontier.com.

Friday, 9/21, 4:30 pm, TBA

Professor Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, will lecture on "The Question of Job: Some Reflections on the Biblical Book." The first part of the title is a play on a famous book about Hamlet, by one of Harvard's most important literary scholars, Harry Levin, "The Question of Hamlet." For more information please contact Professor Cindy Chapman.