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Yale University
Chaplain's Office
Week of Feb 13, 2012
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The staff of the Chaplain's Office, along with the rest of the university, is shocked by the recent reporting of allegations of surveillance of Muslim students at Yale and other universities. The Chaplain's Office endeavors to make Yale a safe place for everyone to practice their faith, to respectfully engage in interfaith dialogue and encounter, and prepare students for lives in a richly diverse world. It is in this spirit that we encourage everyone at Yale to ask their Muslim friends, neighbors, teachers, and students how this news has affected them and how you can help to make Yale a more welcoming place for everyone. Stay tuned to chaplain.yale.edu and yalemsa.org for official university announcements about details as they become available. If you have any immediate concerns, please do not hesitate to contact our staff.
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This week marks the beginning of the Christian season Lent with Ash Wednesday. You will probably see many of your fellow students with a black ash cross on their foreheads on Wednesday. If you do, it's a great opportunity to ask them what Lent means to them, and why this time is special in the Christian liturgical year. You can find a listing of Lent services here. This week also marks the beginning of the Baha'i Intercalary Days. This is the time of year when many Baha'is exchange gifts, so stimulate that retail sector and wrap up a few presents for your Baha'i friends! More on the Baha'i calendar here. ________________________________________________________________ |
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Events this week on campus
Reflection: Sex-Talk and Modesty
Tuesday, 9pm, Pierson
Lead by Rakib, JAM (Jews and Muslims) board member and CCE.
1. Talking about Sex in public - a problem? when?
2. Individual pressure on a campus environment when everyone else is talking about sex
3. Sex Week advertising (articles, pictures, slogans) - Too "in your face?" Uncomfortable?
4. What make sex taboo for religious groups? The importance of modesty?
5. How can Religious groups talk about sex? Should they? Not our problem?
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Margaret Farley to deliver Taylor Lectures on "Freedom, Obligation, and Love"
Margaret Farley, the Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale DivinitySchool, will deliver the 2012 Nathaniel W. Taylor Lectures on Feb. 23, 28, and March 1 on the topic "Freedom, Obligation, and Love." All lectures, free and open to the public, begin at 5:30 pm in Niebuhr Hall on the YDS campus, 409 Prospect St., New Haven.
Farley, a member of the Sisters of Mercy order of nuns, is a widely known Christian ethicist who was on the faculty of YDS from 1971 to 2007. During the course of her career, she has been a progressive theological voice in a broad range of areas including feminist theology, medical and sexual ethics, the role of women in the church, homosexuality and the church, and religious perspectives on the environment.
In 2008 she received the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (Continuum, 2006). The Grawemeyer Award is among the nation's most prestigious prizes in the field of religion and is awarded jointly by the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville.
The College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati honored her with the 2007 St. Elizabeth Seton Medal, which recognizes distinguished women in theology.
Deliver of Farley's Taylor Lectures will take place as follows:
· Lecture I, "Embodiment, Choice, and Action," Thursday, February 23, 5:30 pm
· Lecture II, "Desires, Loves, and Reasons," Tuesday, February 28, 5:30 pm
· Lecture III, "Morality and Self-Determination," Thursday, March 1, 5:30 pm
Addressing questions of the meaning and possibility of human freedom of choice, Farley's lectures will speak to problems raised by scientists, philosophers, and theologians. The central element will be a descriptive analysis of the experience of free choice-not the question of whether there can be free choice, but on the structure of what we choose when we choose, raising the further question of whether every choice is ultimately a choice of what and how to love.
The Nathaniel W. Taylor Lectureship in Theology was created in 1902 by a gift from Rebecca Taylor Hatch of Brooklyn, New York, in memory of her father, who was Dwight Professor of Didactic Theology from 1822 to 1858.
Live streaming of the lectures can be accessed at: http://divinity.yale.edu/core/digital-resources
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Spring Break New Haven -
Brought to you by the Chaplain's Office
Saturday March 3 - Friday March 9
Spend the first week of Spring Break exploring our own city of New Haven and helping our neighbors.
Join an all-Yale undergrad/grad/professional student group for a full week of activities, including lots of community service, learning about issues of homelessness, mental illness, religious diversity, and education in New Haven, and exploring corners of New Haven most students never see.
Fun meals from local restaurants included. Sponsored by the Chaplain's Office, the program is open to people of all faiths or none! Cost: $50 (but let us know if you can't afford that).
Sign up by visiting our website.
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Want to go on a Spring Break trip with Yale Christian Fellowship?
Katrina Relief Urban Plunge (KRUP) is a spring break opportunity happening March 2-11th (the first week of Spring break) to serve and to visit the great city of New Orleans, to have practical and open discussions about justice and Jesus' role in that process, and to meet new people from Yale and other Northeast college students. Sign up
now. If you or your friends have more questions about KRUP, please contact Josh Williams at jaw.williams@gmail.com. This trip will be led by Josh '08 '11 DIV, the staff leader of Yale Christian Fellowship (YCF).Check out http://www.ivneglobalservice.org/krup1.html for more details. All are welcome! No previous experience with construction necessary. The total cost (no discounts or scholarships applied) includes travel, lodging, food and materials, and is $575. Scholarships are also available. The deadline for registering is 2/17. Act soon!
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Weekly Programs with the Chaplain's Office
Knitting Circle
Mondays 4-5pm
Breathing Space, Welch C
Join us for an hour of knitting, conversation, and snacks. Hosted by Ivy!
Multifaith Council
Mondays
Dinner served at 5:45pm
Conversation starts at 6pm
Chaplain's Office, Bingham D
Join us for dinner and conversations about faith, spirituality, meaning, ethics, and the big questions in life. Everyone from all traditions, perspectives, beliefs, doubts, etc are all very welcome.
Art for the Soul
Tuesdays 4-5pm
Breathing Space, Welch C
An hour of meditative and creative spiritual engagement. Come and create a mandala or do a body drawing, make a God's eye or pray in color, write poetry with or without words... Each week will feature a different prayerful project, but all are welcome to follow their own creative impulses. Tea and hot chocolate provided. Conversation optional.
Cookies and Coloring with the Chaplain
Breathing Space, Welch C
Enjoy a relaxing hour eating homemade cookies, coloring mandalas, and chatting with Sharon Kugler, the University Chaplain. Stop by for five minutes or the whole hour.
Integral Yoga Hatha
Fridays
12-1pm
Battell Chapel
Integral Yoga Hatha includes mantras (chanting), asanas (postures), pranayama (yogic breathing), yoga nidra (deep relaxation), and dhyana (meditation). Lead in an open, conversational style, this class is perfect for first time yogis and sannyasis alike. Yoga mats and blankets are provided. Please wear loose fitting, modest clothing. Taught by Nat 'Nataraja' DeLuca, Program Coordinator, Chaplain's Office. Nat is a certified Integral Yoga teacher.
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Weekly Wisdom
To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
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Nathaniel DeLuca
Program Coordinator
Chaplain's Office Yale University
203-432-1128
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