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Last week, I spoke to a friend about the virtues of meditating one’s pinky finger. We were considering the tyranny that is staring down a horizon with unanchored feet and the nausea that is lightness without heaviness. We elected to …
What is living a life of principles if not making a series of comparisons? In determining that some lifestyle confers greater benefits on oneself than another, one must compare the two lifestyles, weigh their virtues and vices and choose a …
This semester, Rabbi Lisa Vinikoor, who works as the College’s part-time Jewish life advisor, has been leading the Limmud Fellowship with a cohort of five students. The ongoing fellowship centers around Jewish ideas and values, with a goal of providing …
Being a hijabi, I am perceived as a representative of Muslims and Islam. Often people will scrutinize my actions to see if they align with what they believe Islam is. These statements often are said to me as a joke, …
As a part of this year’s Interfaith Visibility Week, the Rachel Lord Center for Religious and Spiritual Life invited community members to the VAC’s Beam Classroom on Tuesday night for an educational event on Zionism. The event, entitled “Roots of …
As part of campus celebrations of Interfaith Visibility Week, Kaira Jewel Lingo, a former Buddhist monk whose work blends spirituality and social justice, spoke in Kresge Auditorium Monday night. Lingo’s talk, titled “We Were Made for These Times,” centered on …
In this column, we are figuring out how to handle our fears, and today, these authors feel tangled in fear. So, in an effort to untangle ourselves, we are naming our fear.
We are afraid that since people’s fears for …
Yesterday, the Rachel Lord Center for Religious and Spiritual Life (RLC) kicked off (Inter)Faith Visibility Week in Smith Union. The opening event featured various religious and spiritual groups from across campus as well as area community organizations. Organized to coincide …
This year, the Rachel Lord Center for Religious and Spiritual Life began its new series, the Congregation Crawl, consisting of four visits to different congregations in an attempt to introduce the Bowdoin community to different spiritual identities and highlight the …
Editor’s note 04/07/2023 at 1:28 p.m.: This article mistakingly reported that Oliver Goodrich was hired in May of 2022. This has been corrected to reflect that he began working in June of 2022.
A committee on campus worked to create …
