The mission of the Multi-faith Council is to facilitate in the Dartmouth community opportunities for understanding, exploration, and discussion of the role that faith plays in the lives of students and the life of the world through weekly meetings of a religiously diverse group and events for the wider community.
Dartmouth’s Multi-Faith programs seek to build community across religious lines. We seek to honor the diversity of religious worldviews, be they Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Baha’i, Native, Sikh, Buddhist, Agnostic, Atheist, Seeking, some combination of the above, or anything else. We look to build relationships through the exploration of narratives of faith, honoring common ground and shared concerns while not shying away from real and significant difference.
The mission of the Multi-faith Co
uncil is to facilitate in the Dartmouth community opportunities for understanding, exploration, and discussion of the role that faith plays in the lives of students and the life of the world through weekly meetings of a religiously diverse group and events for the wider community.
We currently meet on Tuesdays at 6:15 for dinner in the Tucker Foundation’s Seminar Room. Blitz ‘MFC’ if you wish to join (we have a simple application). Students of any or no faith are welcome to join. All we ask for is an interest on issues of faith and spirituality as an important aspect of campus life and a willingness to share and listen.
Our meetings revolve around topics of members’ choosing or the sharing of a student ‘spiritual autobiography.’ That is, student members are given the opportunity to share how their faith has shaped them, important aspects of their particular set of beliefs, what they have struggled with, and what faith has meant to their Dartmouth experience. We also plan events for the broader Dartmouth community.
We currently meet on Tuesdays at 6:15 for dinner in the Tucker Foundation’s Seminar Room. Blitz Kurt Nelson if you wish to join (we have a simple application). Students of any or no faith are welcome to join. All we ask for is an interest on issues of faith and spirituality as an important aspect of campus life and a willingness to share and listen.
Our meetings revolve around topics of members’ choosing or the sharing of a student ‘spiritual autobiography.’ That is, student members are given the opportunity to share how their faith has shaped them, important aspects of their particular set of beliefs, what they have struggled with, and what faith has meant to their Dartmouth experience. We also plan events for the broader Dartmouth community.
The Faith in Action Alternative Spring Break trip seeks to bring together students from a diversity of religious and moral traditions to explore the issue of youth and homelessness in the Bay Area of California. Together, this group will work with a variety of community agencies serving homeless youth while learning about the complexity of this issue. By exploring service as a shared value across religious and spiritual lines, participants will have the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships and understanding within the context of religious difference and to delve deeply into personal visions of what it means to serve a community in the context of a life of faith. Students from all religious and moral traditions encouraged to apply! We will work with students to accommodate any religious dietary or lodging needs.
For more information or to apply visit:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tucker/servicetrips/asb.html
Each summer, during a warm July weekend to be determined, a small group of bold intrepid multi-faith participants takes to the woods of New Hampshire (in a Dartmouth cabin, of course) for a brief, meaningful and relaxing multi-faith retreat. Activities include cooking, hiking, communing with nature, deep discussions and forced arts and crafts.
This retreat is designed especially for the sophomore class, but other students, even graduate students, who are around are most welcome. For more information, blitz Kurt Nelson.
Learning CommunityThe Dartmouth Inter-Faith Living and Learning Community seeks to bring together students from a diversity of religious perspectives to make a commitment to the experience of living together and learning from one another. Located in the first floor of Ripley Hall, the IFLLC houses eleven undergraduate residents and one Undergraduate Advisor, all in single rooms.
The group meets weekly with students members leading a conversation of their choice.
Applications are accepted each term through the Office of Residential Life. For more information visit or to apply, visit their site.
Kurt Nelson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in religion and history from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School. He currently resides in Hanover, New Hampshire where he has been the advisor to multi-faith programs at Dartmouth College since 2007. His interests include faith and sexuality, green theology, struggling with the Lutheran Church, being happily married, biking, frisbee and the Nintendo Wii.
Kurt.D.Nelson "at" dartmouth "dot" edu
(603) 646-9919
