Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life

Join Spiritual and Religious Life Dean Mark R. Orten for 20 minutes of quiet contemplation with reading and music for our times. Intentional silence and guided meditation will be interspersed with music and readings from secular worldviews and sacred traditions to open our awareness and to find strength and perspective for living during personal, political, racial, ecological and other upheavals.

Join Spiritual and Religious Life Dean Mark R. Orten for 20 minutes of quiet contemplation with reading and music for our times. Intentional silence and guided meditation will be interspersed with music and readings from secular worldviews and sacred traditions to open our awareness and to find strength and perspective for living during personal, political, racial, ecological and other upheavals.

Cultivating personal spirituality through the arts, nature, ceremony, food, & mystical practice for the LGBTQIA+ community. Going beyond intellectualizing identity toward embodying it from the depth of being. Facilitated by Associate Chaplain/Muslim Advisor Saifa Hussain.  Refreshments will be served.  Please fill out our interest form via go/QueerMystic/

Cultivating personal spirituality through the arts, nature, ceremony, food, & mystical practice for the LGBTQIA+ community. Going beyond intellectualizing identity toward embodying it from the depth of being. Facilitated by Associate Chaplain/Muslim Advisor Saifa Hussain.  Refreshments will be served.  Please fill out our interest form via go/QueerMystic/

Cultivating personal spirituality through the arts, nature, ceremony, food, & mystical practice for the LGBTQIA+ community. Going beyond intellectualizing identity toward embodying it from the depth of being. Facilitated by Associate Chaplain/Muslim Advisor Saifa Hussain.  Refreshments will be served.  Please fill out our interest form via go/QueerMystic/

This annual traditional program combines choral music, congregational singing, and the Biblical texts of the season. The celebratory community service (held at both 4:00 and 7:00 pm) features the Middlebury College Choir, performing under the direction of Ronnie Romano, and readings by students, faculty, and staff. There will be large-print programs available, and the 4:00 service will have ASL interpretation.  George Matthew Jr. rings in the service with selections on the chapel carillon.

This annual traditional program combines choral music, congregational singing, and the Biblical texts of the season. The celebratory community service (held at both 4:00 and 7:00 pm) features the Middlebury College Choir, performing under the direction of Ronnie Romano, and readings by students, faculty, and staff. There will be large-print programs available, and the 4:00 service will have ASL interpretation.  George Matthew Jr. rings in the service with selections on the chapel carillon.

This month’s Table Talk discussion will feature an essay by Stephen Marche exploring the parallels between theistic language and concepts, and the rise of artificial intelligence, particularly NLP (Natural Language Processing). The article can be accessed here. 

A collaboration between the Climate Action Capacity Project’s Climate Action Fellowship and The Scott Center for Spiritual & Religious Life as a way to hold space for the intense and sometimes overwhelming emotions that come with climate change.

Tea and light snacks will be provided, as well as a journal and pen which will be used for one of the voluntary activities.

Please note that if you drive, you should park on South Street, not along Chipman Park.  There is no parking on Chipman Park.

Join with others to discuss the lifelong process of navigating grief and loss.  New students are welcome at any time.  Email nparrish@midd for more information.