Stories about "religion and spirituality"
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Video: Brooke Drabkin ’18 values her relationship with Lewiston
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 1:42 pm
Spending time with Lewiston-Auburn's Jewish community, says Drabkin, has "opened my eyes to the differences that can exist in one tradition."
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Bates’ memorial tree planting embraces the ‘sacred tension’ of gratitude and grief
Friday, September 8, 2017 12:25 pm
“It’s actually a beautiful gesture to say, dead or alive, you’re still a part of the Bates community,” says Multifaith Chaplain Brittany Longsdorf.
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Q&A: Marcus Bruce ’77 on Benjamin Mays, MLK, and the ongoing struggle for emancipation
Friday, January 6, 2017 12:50 pm
Bruce, the college's Benjamin Mays Professor, explains why Mays — Class of 1920, great 20th-century civil rights leader, and mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. — offers hope for "a new birth of freedom."
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Bates at Night: A respite called {Pause}
Friday, December 2, 2016 11:25 am
A visit to the Gomes Chapel for {Pause}, a weekly secular service of music, poetry, silence, dance, and art.
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Bates at Night: Hearth
Friday, October 14, 2016 11:18 am
Bates at Night: At the dinner gathering called Hearth, participants can share their thoughts, simply sit in silence, or anything in between.
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Hour by hour, MLK Day pictures, quotes, readings, ideas, and gestures
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 12:53 pm
Here's how MLK Day 2016 looked: what was said and read, and what was acted, sung, and pondered.
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‘Living history’ as Bates juniors join private audience with the Dalai Lama
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 5:05 pm
The four were among 20 American college students studying in Kathmandu on a study-abroad program that explores Tibetan and Himalayan cultures.
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King would be ‘appalled’ at today’s rhetoric around poverty, Butler says in keynote
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 5:00 pm
Getting 46 million Americans out of poverty will require wholesale changes in how we talk about, think about and take action around poverty, said keynote speaker Anthea Butler.
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Slide show: Service for naming the Peter J. Gomes Chapel
Monday, October 29, 2012 4:00 pm
Photographs reflecting the poignancy and celebration, musical offerings and spoken word, of…
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Peter Gomes ‘cherished’ the Chapel that now carries his name
Friday, October 26, 2012 9:30 am
The Chapel became the Peter J. Gomes Chapel on Oct. 25 as hundreds gathered to remember the late preacher and teacher in words and song.