Religious Life at CC
Religious life at Colorado College is as varied as our community is diverse. The religious dimension of life is often encountered as we make choices about values, relationships, beliefs, lifestyle and career. At times, this dimension serves as a personal center that offers meaning and wholeness to our ambiguous and fragmentary experience. At other times, it shakes us loose from our complacency and opens us to new horizons. The spiritual journey can be both exciting and difficult.
A MESSAGE FROM CHAPLAIN BRUCE CORIELL
As College Chaplain, I want to encourage individuals in their spiritual journeys to encounter God or the sacred in ways that are personally meaningful, and to promote ethical engagement and reflection with those in the community. I am available to meet with you personally. Just stop by the chapel or give me a call. I also serve as an advisor and resource for the following programs:
Shove Council is a interfaith group which seeks to foster the life of the spirit at Colorado College. Our primary aim is to promote personal and campus participation in issues of religious and ethical importance. We are Christians and Buddhists, Muslims and Jews, Pagans and Unitarian Universalists. We are mediators and activists, believers and skeptics. Some have a firm tradition and some are still looking. Since we desire to address a wide range of concerns, we stubbornly hold to our identity as an inclusive and multi-issue group. We meet weekly for times of discussion and planning. (Wednesday lunch is provided at the Chapel Office.)
Living Faith Traditions offers the entire campus community an opportunity to worship within and learn about a different religious tradition once a block. In addition to on-campus celebrations such as Festivals of Lessons and Carols (Anglican) and Passover Seder (Jewish); small groups visit local churches, temples and congregations to participate in a wide range of worship settings.
Faculty and Faith is planned by students in order to bring faculty and students into a forum where they can openly express and discuss their faith (religious or non•traditional) in a personal way. Faculty and Faith takes place in Shove Chapel Office at noon every third Thursday of the block.
Religious life Council seeks to make Colorado College a hospitable place to all persons of faith. Representatives of campus religious organizations meet in an interfaith context to discuss issues of religious life on campus, cooperative programs and mutual support.
Retreats at Baca offer a chance for reflection and relaxation away from campus. Retreats are offered in both Fall and Spring. Programs have focused on contemplative practice, dream analysis and sacred stories.
Spiritual Classics presents students, faculty and staff with the opportunity to read classic works of spiritual life, devotional literature and meditations from a variety of living faith traditions. Texts are chosen by participants who meet in the Pilgrim Chapel on the first and third Tuesday of each block.
Holocaust Memorial Programs are an attempt to confront us with the possibility of profound human injustice and evil and with the need to remember and understand it.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration occurs during January as a local attempt to pose the possibility of fostering justice, peace and community within a society of diversity.
The following opportunities are offered when sufficient interest exists:
SIRV- Students Interested in Religious Vocations -students interested in exploring careers as leaders, counselors, and educators in a religious context gather for mutual learning and support. Contact Chaplain Coriell at ext. 6638.
Spiritual Exercises is an opportunity to pursue a more experiential path to spiritual growth. This group will explore a variety of types of meditation and religious reflection.