Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life SCOTT CENTER

Grief and Loss Group

Interested exploring themes of grief and loss together?  Help build a community of peer support.  Arts and crafts supplies, warm beverages and light refreshments are available. Drop in any Thursday in the Crest Room.   Co-sponsored by Middlebury Counseling and The Scott Center. For more information contact nparrish@middlebury.edu.

McCullough Crest Room

Grief and Loss Group

Interested exploring themes of grief and loss together?  Help build a community of peer support.  Arts and crafts supplies, warm beverages and light refreshments are available. Drop in any Thursday in the Crest Room.   Co-sponsored by Middlebury Counseling and The Scott Center. For more information contact nparrish@middlebury.edu.

McCullough Crest Room

Grief and Loss Group

Interested exploring themes of grief and loss together?  Help build a community of peer support.  Arts and crafts supplies, warm beverages and light refreshments are available. Drop in any Thursday in the Crest Room.   Co-sponsored by Middlebury Counseling and The Scott Center. For more information contact nparrish@middlebury.edu.

McCullough Crest Room

Grief and Loss Group

Interested exploring themes of grief and loss together?  Help build a community of peer support.  Arts and crafts supplies, warm beverages and light refreshments are available. Drop in any Thursday in the Crest Room.   Co-sponsored by Middlebury Counseling and The Scott Center. For more information contact nparrish@middlebury.edu.

McCullough Crest Room

A Reading from The Chapter on Love

In commemoration of Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, join Muslim Chaplain and Interfaith Advisor Zahra Moeini in a reading of the Chapter on Love in Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley. Riley’s writing uniquely combines the language for collective and individual liberation with a tongue of prayer, and a memorable meditation on love in its many layers and shades. Light refreshments will be served.

McCullough Crest Room

Yom HaShoah Film Screening, with director Melissa Hacker

We are thrilled to be screening the 1996 documentary film “My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports,” in honor of the upcoming Holocaust Remembrance Day. Even more thrilling, film director Melissa Hacker will join us in person for the screening and a discussion afterward. The film tells the story of The Kindertransport movement which brought nearly 10,000 children to Great Britain from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, before the advent of World War II, saving many of their lives.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public

POSTPONED -- Prophetic Peacemakers in Spiritual & Religious Traditions (dinner discussion)

Join the Scott Center chaplains as they explore the dynamic lives of visionary and prophetic peacemakers in their respective religious and ethical traditions. Who are these exemplary visionaries and what made their peacemaking prophetic in ways that can inspire us today to respond and resolve social injustices, tensions or upheavals? 

McCullough Crest Room

The Qur'an & the Arabic Language

The Islamic tradition and the Arabic language seem to be inseparable. Muslims recite their daily prayers in Arabic, read in the Qur’an in Arabic, and many of the phrases they use in daily conversations, like “InshaAllah” and “Alhamdulilah,” find their origins in the Qur’an - Islam’s sacred book. In this talk, Maryait Khader (Arabic Dept.) and Zahra Moeini (Scott Center) will discuss how this came to be, with a close look at early Islamic history and the Qur’an. How does the Qur’an refer to the Arabic language?

McCullough Crest Room

Mindfulness Retreat with Prof. Emily Proctor

Come take part in a half-day mindfulness retreat for students, led by Professor Emily Proctor.  We will learn and practice a variety of mindfulness activities tuned toward helping the mind connect with the body, all with the intention of deepening a sense of relaxed connection and relationship with the people and world around us.

Nourishing snacks and warm drinks will be provided through the morning.  Register by January 25 at go/mindwithbody/

McCullough Crest Room