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A place of sanctuary, meaning-making, and mischief-making. All of you is welcome in this space. We offer no platitudes here.

The Spiritual Life Center is a place for sanctuary, meaning-making & mischief-making. That means this is space for ambiguity & tension, knowing & unknowing, strength & frailty, for longing & wholeness, for any & all kinds of bodies, & everything that happens inside of them. We aren’t here to deny the particularity of your tradition, but to deepen it; not here to sustain the world as it is, but to

subvert it; not to dictate your journey, but to make space for it. But we do offer blessings, and those are always free. (“Blessings not just to the ones who kneel…luckily.”)

04/04/2026

As Christians celebrate Easter this Sunday, we invite you to join us in Holy Week services !

02/24/2026

What if divine judgment is not the opposite of love — but an expression of it?

Join us for the 2026 Mendenhall Lecture:
Unwrathing God: Rethinking Hell, Judgment, and the Afterlife
with Dr. Brad Jersak

📍 Gobin Church
🗓 Sunday, March 8 | 6pm
Free & open to the public

This year’s lecture turns to one of the most debated and misunderstood themes in Christian theology — hell, judgment, and ultimate restoration — and asks how our understanding of “last things” shapes the way we live now.

All faith backgrounds (or none) welcome.

02/17/2026

We are so grateful to our wonderful for this super enlightening Ramadan Reset event last night at CSL! It was such a great time of food and community, while equipping us with on ramps to explore/deepen the practices of Ramadan.

We wanted to highlight some of this really helpful content directly.

It is especially fascinating how Ramadan and the practice of Lent in the Christian tradition converge, as both are seasons of fasting. Both are times of reflection, strengthening faith, and showing solidarity with those who do not have enough to eat—and not by choice. These are times of fasting for the body, but of feasting for the soul!

For more on how to engage Ramadan with our Muslim community, scroll through these slides.

For our Christian students, Chaplain Jonathan Martin will be offering ashes to go from 11am-noon this (Ash Wednesday), with an Ash Wednesday service hosted at Gobin Church Wednesday evening at 6pm.

We love learning from each other’s sacred traditions! So many ways to deepen the practices of your own faith@tradition, and so many ways you can explore those of one that is new for you.

02/11/2026

What is Fat Tuesday?

It’s the day before Lent begins — a season in the Christian tradition centered on reflection, simplicity, and renewal leading up to Easter.

For centuries, communities have marked this day by gathering, eating good food, and celebrating together before entering a more contemplative season.

That’s exactly what we’re doing here: food, music, king cake, and community as we mark the turning of the season together.

Join us!!!

02/06/2026

We hope you can join us for our first Faith Friday of the spring semester! We are thrilled to welcome back Imam Ahmed Alamine to lead Jummah prayer at 1:30 and 2:30pm today at the Center for Spiritual Life; and then Rabbi Bruce Pfeffer at 6pm in the Jewish Community Room Room downstairs at Gobin Church for Shabbat service (with dinner immediately following). Come pray with us, learn with us, be in community with us...it’s a wonderful opportunity to deepen your own personal faith practice, or to learn from one that is new to you!

12/09/2025

Stop by our Advent table today for free chai, cookies and advent books, 11am—1pm in the UB living room! (Tuesday December 9th)

12/05/2025

The Center for Spiritual Life and Gobin Church are offering two opportunities for you to reset your body and soul going into finals! We hope you can join us for Lie Down and Listen this Sunday night (all info in flyer above).

We are also happy to invite students to participate in the Christian Advent tradition of The Hanging of the Greens (decorating the sanctuary for Advent and Christmas) this Sunday, Dec 7 at 12:15pm. We’ll be putting up Christmas trees and wreaths and lights, and enjoying a meal from The Whisk, all while listening to Christmas music.

We would love to invite international students, who may be interested in participating in this Advent tradition. It’s a laid-back, come and go opportunity for students to grab a bite to eat and help decorate, especially if this might be a good break from studying before finals!

11/18/2025

3rd Annual Hillel and Muslim Student Association Interfaith Community Dinner this Friday at Gobin Church community room at 5pm

Hillel and MSA would like to invite you to our interfaith dinner this Friday November 21st at 5pm at the Gobin Church community room (307 Simpson St., right next to admissions)! While this has become a wonderful ongoing tradition between these faith communities on our campus, it is an opportunity for EVERYONE to come and share a meal with us in support of our students! There will be food representative of both of these traditions, ALL ARE INVITED!

We hope you can join Imam Alamine, Rabbi Pfeffer, and all of our friends this Friday.

11/05/2025

6-8pm tonight in our Jewish community room at Gobin Church…join us!

10/29/2025

The (Second) Max L. Stackhouse Lecture
Thursday, October 30, 2025 · 7:00 pm
Watson Forum (Pulliam Center)
Speaker: Dr. Anthony B. Pinn (https://www.anthonypinn.com/), Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities, and Professor of Religion at Rice University
“After the Fall of a King: Reflections on Religious Thought at the End of Hope”

Dr. Pinn is a leading voice in African American religious thought and humanist theology. In this lecture, he asks what remains of “theology” when hope collapses…when systems meant to sustain no longer hold. Drawing on W. E. B. Du Bois and Albert Camus, Pinn seems less interested in patching old systems of meaning than in exploring how they might be re-tooled...how religion might be understood as a kind of technē: an ongoing art of struggle, improvisation, and survival.

10/06/2025

A few glimpses from a rich, soulful weekend:

Our Jewish friends put up a sukkah, a temporary hut constructed for the festival of Sukkot beginning tonight (hi Evan!)…hosting our wonderful Imam Alamine to lead Jummah prayer…Shabbat service with Rabbi Bruce Pfeffer in our new Jewish Community Room!

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411 E Seminary Street
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https://www.depauw.edu/campus-life/spiritual-life/

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