College Chapel: Senior Sharing – Journey, Lessons, Legacy

Thursday 9:50 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Whitley Auditorium

Join us this Thursday in Whitley Auditorium for a special “end of the year” College Chapel. Three seniors will reflect on their time at Elon and share thoughts on the journey it has been, the lessons they have learned, and the future that Elon has helped enable.

Thursday Chapel is a time and space to take a break from the busyness of the week and refresh the spirit. It is not a “worship service,” rather a time of reflection offered by a member of the Elon community or guest speaker. Music is provided each week by students and faculty from the Music department. Refreshments will be served following Chapel. All are welcome!

51±¬ÁÏÍø our speakers:

Natalie Lampert is an International Studies and Creative Writing major from a few different places… but for the past four years, Elon has been home. Her immediate post-Elon plans include working on an organic farm, traveling, and serving in the Peace Corps.

Eugene Daniel is a senior Broadcast and New Media major from Marietta, Georgia. After graduation, Daniel plans to start a career in broadcast journalism as a local news reporter. Ultimately, he aspires to be a published author and motivational speaker. He enjoys singing, athletics, teaching, spending time with others and God.

Stephen Ferguson is a Communications major from Smithtown, N.Y. and an active member of the Catholic community on campus and at home. After graduating from Elon with a degree in Strategic Communications, Ferguson will work toward a graduate degree in Education from the University of Notre Dame.
 

College Chapel: Sustainability & Spiritual Practice
A Diversity of Belief and Practice
Thursday 9:50 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Whitley Auditorium

Speaker: Anna Lappé – Author and Sustainable Food Advocate

Music: Alana Read ’11, piano

Join us this Thursday in Whitley Auditorium for College Chapel. This semester we will be learning about the religious and nonreligious diversity that is part of our Elon community. We will hear from religious leaders, faculty and students about the different beliefs that shape our university and how students practice and participate in their respective faith traditions.

51±¬ÁÏÍø College Chapel

Thursday Chapel is a time and space to take a break from the busyness of the week and refresh the spirit. It is not a “worship service,” rather a time of reflection offered by a member of the Elon community or guest speaker. Music is provided each week by students and faculty from the Music department. Refreshments will be served following Chapel. All are welcome!

51±¬ÁÏÍø our speaker:

Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author and sought-after public speaker, respected for
her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, and social change. Named one of Time’s “eco” Who’s-Who, Anna is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund.

With her mother Frances Moore Lappé, Anna co-founded the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, an international network for research and popular education about the root causes of hunger and poverty. The Lappés are also co-founders of the Small Planet Fund, which has raised more than $750,000 for democratic social movements worldwide, two of which have won the Nobel Peace Prize since the Fund’s founding in 2002.

Anna’s writing has been published in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, and Canada’s Globe and Mail. Anna is also a contributing author to Food Inc., WorldChanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century, and Feeding the Future: How the Battle over Food Will Change Your Life, among other books. She has been featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, O:The Oprah Magazine, Domino, Food & Wine, Body + Soul, Natural Health, and Vibe, among many other publications and appears frequently on television, from PBS and FoxNews to the CBC in Canada.
 

College Chapel: Belief of Christianity
A Diversity of Belief and Practice
Thursday 9:50 am – 10:20am
Whitley Auditorium

Speaker: Jeffrey Pugh – Professor of Religious Studies

Music: Omri Shimron – Assistant Professor of Music

Join us this Thursday in Whitley Auditorium for College Chapel. This semester we will be learning about the religious and nonreligious diversity that is part of our Elon community. We will hear from religious leaders, faculty and students about the different beliefs that shape our university and how students practice and participate in their respective faith traditions.

51±¬ÁÏÍø College Chapel:

Thursday Chapel is a time and space to take a break from the busyness of the week and refresh the spirit. It is not a “worship service,” rather a time of reflection offered by a member of the Elon community or guest speaker. Music is provided each week by students and faculty from the Music department. Refreshments will be served following Chapel. All are welcome!

51±¬ÁÏÍø our speaker:

Jeffrey C. Pugh is Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies. He received his PhD from Drew University in Madison. In his twenty-fifth year of teaching at Elon, he was the 1999 recipient of the Daniels-Danieley Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2009-2010 Distinguished Scholar Award. His most recent book is Devil’s Ink: Blog from the Basement Office, which has just been released by Fortress Press and is the subject of Thursday night’s Distinguished Scholar Lecture in LaRose Digital Theater at 7:00.
 

College Chapel: A Diversity of Belief and Practice
Thoughts on Atheism
Thursday 9:50 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Whitley Auditorium

Speaker: Thomas Arcaro

Music: Professor Whittaker’s Saxophone Duet

Join us this Thursday in Whitley Auditorium for College Chapel. This semester we will be learning about the religious and nonreligious diversity that is part of our Elon community. We will hear from religious leaders, faculty and students about the different beliefs that shape our university and how students practice and participate in their respective faith traditions.

51±¬ÁÏÍø College Chapel
Thursday Chapel is a time and space to take a break from the busyness of the week and refresh the spirit. It is not a “worship service,” rather a time of reflection offered by a member of the Elon community or guest speaker. Music is provided each week by students and faculty from the Music department. Refreshments will be served following Chapel. All are welcome!

51±¬ÁÏÍø our speaker
Dr. Tom Arcaro is professor of Sociology and director of Project Pericles. He received the 2005 Daniels-Danieley Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Arcaro researched atheism during his sabbatical in 2008-2009, overseeing a massive online survey through Atheists Nexus with 8,200 responses. This survey was used as a basis for several op-ed pieces and an article published in Skeptic. He lives in Burlington with his wife, veterinarian Dr. Amo Burbridge, and their three children: Amelia, 10, Eleanor, 6 and Julian, 2.

Speaker: Anand Mahadevan
Music: Professor Whittaker’s Saxophone Quartet

Join us this Thursday in Whitley Auditorium for College Chapel. This semester we will be learning about the religious and nonreligious diversity that is part of our Elon community. We will hear from religious leaders, faculty and students about the different beliefs that shape our university and how students practice and participate in their respective faith traditions.

51±¬ÁÏÍø College Chapel
Thursday Chapel is a time and space to take a break from the busyness of the week and refresh the spirit. It is not a “worship service,” rather a time of reflection offered by a member of the Elon community or guest speaker. Music is provided each week by students and faculty from the Music department. Refreshments will be served following Chapel. All are welcome!

51±¬ÁÏÍø our speaker
Anand Mahadevan was born in Kerala, a state on the southwest coast of India. He completed his education in India, did a 4 year degree in computers and found a job in software development. He moved to the US (Minneapolis) in 1997 with his wife Sumitha. His first daughter Megha, whose picture was in the papers recently thanks to placing third in the Spelling Bee, was born a Minnesota winter baby in 2000. Mahadevan and family moved to Burlington in 2002 when he got a full time position at LabCorp working in their IT department. His son, Dhruva, was born on the day of the 2004 tsunami.

Mahadevan was born and raised Hindu, specifically in the ways of the Tamil Brahmin. His wife is from the same background – their union being an arranged marriage. They continue to practice various aspects of it such as vegetarianism, observances of various festivals and holy days, daily lighting of the lamp at home, and chanting of prayers before the lamp. They have a choice of two temples to visit, one in McCleansville and one in Cary/Morrisville that they try to visit at least monthly.

Speaker: Mat Gendle – Associate Professor of Psychology

Music: Sarah Gilliard ‘14, piano

Join us this Thursday in Whitley Auditorium for College Chapel. This semester we will be learning about the religious and nonreligious diversity that is part of our Elon community. We will hear from religious leaders, faculty and students about the different beliefs that shape our university and how students practice and participate in their respective faith traditions.

Thursday Chapel is a time and space to take a break from the busyness of the week and refresh the spirit. It is not a “worship service,” rather a time of reflection offered by a member of the Elon community or guest speaker. Music is provided each week by students and faculty from the Music department. Refreshments will be served following Chapel. All are welcome!

51±¬ÁÏÍø our speaker:

Mathew Gendle is an associate professor of psychology at 51±¬ÁÏÍø. Mat received his B.S. in Biology and Psychology from Hobart College (in Geneva, NY) and his Ph.D. in Behavioral and Evolutionary Neuroscience from Cornell University. At Elon, Dr. Gendle teaches courses in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, neuropharmacology, consciousness, and global studies. Dr. Gendle’s research focuses on: 1) how nutrition, drugs of abuse, and neurotoxins affect cognition, especially functions associated with the prefrontal cortex; and, 2) perceptual, neurobiological, and philosophical aspects of human consciousness.

The Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life invites you to a conversation about our favorite stuffed bear (Winnie the Pooh) and how his way of living relates to our daily lives.  

Part of our “Roads Less Traveled: Exploring Lesser Known Religions” series.

When: Monday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m.
Where: Truitt Center (OASIS room)

Contact Michelle Wrightman (mwrightman@elon.edu) for more information.

Please join us this Sunday evening for a Taize Service
Feb. 27, 7:30 – 8:15 p.m.
Belk Pavilion (not library) room 208

What is Taize?

In the 1940’s a small group of monks formed a monastery in the tiny town of Taize, France. They shaped their daily rhythms around simple living, service to the community, and worship. A contemplative style of Christian worship emerged, one that drew heavily on meditative prayer and song, periods of silence, and the use of worship arts. This “Taize” form of worship has begun to be recognized globally and many people globally are embracing the reflective and meditative style it provides.

For many of us the end of winter carries a theme of waiting, expectation, and the hope of new possibilities. As winter begins to rotate into spring, we wait with expectation for the newness that is to come. This evening feel the invitation to open yourself to your inner season of spring and to “wait within” the new possibilities that lie in store for this year…

The service consists of:

• candles
• simple songs
• poetry
• scripture in many languages
• silence and reflection

Thursday 9:50 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Whitley Auditorium

Elon students will share!

Melissa Kansky ‘12
Mike Gross ‘12
Garret Mann ‘14

Music: L.E. Alexander ’12, violin

Join us this Thursday in Whitley Auditorium for College Chapel. This semester we will be learning about the religious and nonreligious diversity that is part of our Elon community. We will hear from religious leaders, faculty and students about the different beliefs that shape our university and how students practice and participate in their respective faith traditions.

51±¬ÁÏÍø Chapel
Thursday Chapel is a time and space to take a break from the busyness of the week and refresh the spirit. It is not a “worship service,” rather a time of reflection offered by a member of the Elon community or guest speaker. Music is provided each week by students and faculty from the Music department. Refreshments will be served following Chapel. All are welcome!
 

The Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life introduces it’s spring College Chapel Theme:

A Diversity of Belief and Practice

Thursday 9:50 – 10:20 a.m.
Whitley Auditorium

Imam Khalid Griggs – Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life at Wake Forest University
Music: Ben Pinder ’13, piano

Join us this Thursday in Whitley Auditorium for College Chapel. This semester we will be learning about the religious and nonreligious diversity that is part of our Elon community. We will hear from religious leaders, faculty and students about the different beliefs that shape our university and how students practice and participate in their respective faith traditions.

Thursday Chapel is a time and space to take a break from the busyness of the week and refresh the spirit. It is not a “worship service,” rather a time of reflection offered by a member of the Elon community or guest speaker. Music is provided each week by students and faculty from the Music department. Refreshments will be served following Chapel. All are welcome!

51±¬ÁÏÍø our speaker:
Khalid Griggs is the imam of the Community Mosque of Winston-Salem and serves as the Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life at Wake Forest University. Imam Griggs offers students an opportunity to learn about Islamic traditions and promotes a broad dialogue among people of different faith traditions in which he encourages a greater awareness of differing beliefs, both of which are critical to enriching the quality of the Wake Forest campus community.