Stories about "religion and spirituality"
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."
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
Gomes collection, reflecting intimacy with the past, offered March 24
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:13 pm
A conception of God's beauty as expressed in the physical world is a theme of items to be offered at auction from the collection of the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes '65.