Faith at Sewanee

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Ann, as that's happening out, jumped in we we took a week off from Arslani session, so I believe this is our 4th one extension of the spring. So welcome back to those of you who have joined us.

The past month or so as admitted, students making your choices, and I know a handful of you have already committed to come to Swanee, so just learning more about our community and hopefully just say a way for you to connect with us in current students and faculty and staff and authentic way, and just hear a little bit more outside of just the Office of Admission. So I'm Taylor Baird, I'm a counselor here in Oxford machine. I'm going to let it pass introduce themselves, but I did want to do just a brief. I guess introduction to this topic.

Fate, extra money, which I think overtime and through conversation has evolved that really we want that to encapsulate more of religious and ethical identity that's wanted not just faith, so I couldn't change the name retroactively, but for anyone you know here today or watching the recording that you know we want to have that open discussion and dialogue with folks and perspective, Susan families considering spawning. So that will be our topic for today. Charot, my colleague, who's another counselor in the office, is moderating the chat.

So if you do chat something into the Q&A and don't see it immediately, he is working behind the scenes to get that approved, and we may hold some questions towards the end for Q&A with our panelists. But so you don't see it populate immediately, just kind of pending in Gray. We will get there.

And I think that will kind of cover for the chat box in logistic. I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to our panelists. I think Peter you are up first.

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Yeah, that sounds right. Um, so I'm going to introduce myself and then I'm going to maybe bounce it to another panelist and then when everybody's introduced themselves and I'll do my bit. So I'm Peter Gray. I'm the University chaplain since June of last year.

Um, so how about Brian, would you go next?

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Hi everyone, my name is Sarah strand. I'm a senior at the college. I I'm a sacristan at All Saints. I'm a part of the growing in Grace Band. I'm in environmental arts and Humanities. Major with a religious studies. Minor member of the greenhouse, so excited to be here with you all today and I'll pass it off to sauna.

Hello I'm SANA I'm a sophomore, I'm an economics major in a biology and chemistry. Double minor on the pre dental track. I am apart of the Muslim Student Association and so, yeah, that's what I'm doing here.

And I'll go ahead and go my name is Cassie Myuran. I run our dialogue across difference program. An I also convene our Interfaith Advisory Council of which Sona is also apart.

Thank you all. So as University chaplain, my office is that beautiful building that you can see in the slide show. There All Saints Chapel and as the slides move through the session, you're going to see lots of different images and pictures of what religious life looks like on this campus and all of its diversity. Oh look, there's the interior of All Saints Chapel.

To tell you all how I understand my role and as I said, I'm pretty new to it, but this is how I understand it. We do three things at All Saints Chapel we worship. We welcome an we partner. So as you know, somebody is an Episcopal affiliated school and so one of the things that I do and All Saints Chapel is offer worship an offer that worship from the Episcopal tradition. So on Sunday mornings you can find me preaching or celebrating leading worship.

But that's not all we do because I serve as chaplain, not just to Episcopal students who happened to show up on Sunday mornings or even other students who don't identify as Episcopalian who also worship on in All Saints Chapel. I'm also a chaplain to everybody who calls this place home, and so I understand a critical part of our work to be to provide a space of welcome and care and offer resources to folks whatever their religious or ethical identity might be. So you might be a Catholic student. You might be a Methodist.

Student, you might identify a secular. You might identify as Muslim, but the resources of All Saints Chapel that the staff the space itself is open to you regardless of whether or not you're ever going to find your way into Episcopal worship. So we worship. We welcome we partner, and part of what it means to partner is that I really enjoy working with students.

To help them figure out how to practice their own religious identity or their own faith here on campus. So if you are someone for whom.

Episcopal worship is not your thing. Well, I'm happy to sit down with you and figure out how we can get you what you need, how to provide for your spiritual care here in this space.

So that's how I understand my role. I want to talk just to touch about the specific things that we do within All Saints Chapel, 'cause that might give some context for the slides that you're going to see. We have a range of programming that we offer specifically. As I said Sunday morning worship and you can see some pictures of that flooding through the slideshow. That's.

We have worship that looks big and formal and we have worship that looks Christian worship that looks informal, so you'll see as we scroll through folks in robes as well as folks playing the banjo. And that's a part of what we what we do. In addition, in the middle of the week we provide a program called Catechumen Catechumen. It is a fancy word that really means a explorations of spirituality. It's a every Wednesday night when school is in session.

When classes are in session and it gives folks an opportunity to gather in small groups, hear a little bit about the Christian tradition in particular, but then also share in small groups about kind of where we're at as individuals.

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I think that's all I want to say right now. I could say more, but you know what? I don't know about y'all. But I lost an hour of sleep two nights ago and I feel like my mind is going a little bit. So Cassie, I would love for you to share a bit about your work and maybe a plug in for how we partner together.

Not great, thanks Peter. So as I said when I introduced myself, I convene the Interfaith Advisory Council, the Interfaith Advisory Council is made up of about 40 different students, faculty and staff from over 10 different religious and ethical backgrounds. Kind of depending on how you count people.

An our goal is just to make Swanee more inclusive and welcoming for people of all religious and ethical background. So that means folks who clearly understand how they identify an can check a box on what is your religious identity. Surveys to folks who maybe identify actively as nonreligious to folks who are seeking and see themselves as fitting into lots of different spaces. So the Interfaith Council is working to make sure that Swanee is inclusive for for all those folks.

Some of the projects that we have taken on and shower. I'll just give you a heads up that I'm heading to some of the interface slides if you can if you can hop ahead. We spent a lot of time last year, just identifying some concrete things we could do at Swanee to make it more inclusive and one of the first things that we identified, was creating a an interface count calendar. And I think there's a slide for that. Shiro if you want to head there's the Interfaith Council.

And the purpose of this calendar was just for us to have a way that we could name all the different religious observances an holy days that are meaningful within our community. A lot of the Christian traditions are already marked pretty clearly at Swanee, and this was a way of saying, hey, we have a lot of other folks who observe different Holidays. We want to acknowledge those, and we want to make sure that they have what they need to celebrate their particular Holidays. We've also been doing a lot of work to make sure that.

This is a great example. Diverse voices are included in a lot of our University wide ceremonies, so we do a lot of big ceremonies that take place in All Saints. An chaplain Gray has been a great partner on figuring out ways that we can include diverse voices in that space. Acknowledging that we have an Episcopal identity at that institution, but we have lots of different voices that are still a part of our Community, so this is some statements that we had a Black Lives Matter March on campus last summer, and these are some statements from that.

Um, we're working towards creating a permanent interfaith space on campus that still that got slowed down a little bit with Kobe just because gathering has changed, but we want to have a room that can be used by our Muslim students to pray throughout the day or for jummah prayer that are Jewish students could use for Shabbat services, and that could also just be a space for meditation and reflection for people who want a space like that throughout the day. And then we also work to advocate for food and other accommodations for folks from different.

Religious and ethical tradition. So for example, making sure that when our Muslim students are fasting for Ramadan, which is a holy month of fasting in Islam, that they have the accommodations that they need. Here's a great way that we managed to figure out how to celebrate Rosh Ashana with our Jewish students. Even with our covid restrictions in place, we had a pop up right at the center of campus. We do a lot of interfaith programming, so before covid we did a lot of visits to different religious sites.

Nearby, so you might see pictures later. Yeah, thanks. I wrote a visit that we made to the Islamic Center of Murphysboro, which was great. Sonoda lot of work to help us make that happen and we also do a lot of different kinds of interfaith dialogues and have guest speakers on different topics related to religious diversity. An inclusion.

And I just wanted to make sure that I I ran down the different religious student groups that we that we have on campus. We have a Jewish Students Association. They were doing a lot of work pre covid you host Shabbat gatherings on Fridays and that was something that was open to the whole campus community. So it was both a gathering place for our Jewish students and also an educational place for students who wanted to learn more about Judaism are Muslim students Association is regaining a lot of speed after.

Slowing down a bit at the beginning of the of the year with.

Some of the challenges related to Kovid and we're looking to see how we can support our Muslim students around Ramadan this year. We have a Dharmic Student Association. That's working to form it's just getting started. But bringing together different groups. That sort of fit within the Dharmic tradition, so Buddhism Hinduism, Sikhism and some other traditions were also working on forming a secular student alliance, so that's a for students who identify as humanist agnostic or non religious.

Anne and then Brian will speak to his experience with the Swanee Catholic community and then we also have crew, which is our non denominational Christian student group.

The last thing that I wanted to say just about about being at Swanee and one of the things I love about being here is swannies applicable identity. I am not Episcopalian, and if you're not familiar with the Episcopal Church, it might be helpful for you to know that the Episcopal Church really has been sort of one of the parts of Christianity that has been working towards interfaith relationships and welcoming people of different religious backgrounds for a really long time.

I think part of how the Episcopal Church has really functioned for a long time, and so if you're not a piscop alien, I want you to know how welcome you will be at Swanee, because part of what it means to be Episcopalian, and to be in a piscop alien institution is to welcome people of other faiths, and I think if you are Episcopalian, you should know that you are going to be coming to a place where you can really flourish in relationship to people who are different from you, but where we're really committed together to see King flourishing and well being on campus.

Peter, anything to add to that? Or should I switch it over? Well, I guess you'll switch it over to our students.

You absolutely knocked it out of the ballpark. Cassie, thank you.

So I think that what I'd like to do next is we've already introduced the students that we have gathered.

I would love.

I think I'll ask Sarah this question first. As an Episcopal student who herself has taken lots of leadership in our community as we cycle through the slides, you might see Sarah a lot because she's got so many leadership roles.

Wonder if you can answer this question and then we'll go through each of our students following Sarah. How is Suwannee supported you in the flourishing of your religious or spiritual identity and how have you grown in that identity since coming to Suwannee?

So I kick it to you first, Sarah.

Yeah, so I was born and raised Episcopalian, my dad's actually an Episcopal priest. I'm originally from Boston, MA, and so it was kind of intimidating thinking about going to school super far away in Tennessee, but knowing that there could be a church community waiting for me on their side made it a lot more feasible for me. And when I got here.

I loved you know, coming to services and meeting people and community members right off the bat were asking me where I was from and what year I was and I started going to grow in Grace which is a student run service. Yeah, this is a photo of me. I actually had the pleasure of speaking at growing in Graces Pass semester which is a huge honor for me since I had loved listening to speaker so a growing in grace of community members invited to speak.

Every week, and they don't necessarily have to be.

Religious or Episcopalian, but they come and share a little bit about their faith journey, and it's been super wonderful to play music there, and the community is just super wonderful. It's super casual and it's just a great way to start the week for me. And I'm also a member of the sacristan skilled. When we set up and clean up all the church services every Sunday. And for the Holidays.

And I will say that, like the classroom and being involved in religious studies classes and in those conversations has definitely helped me.

You know have a broader vision of what faith means and certainly the programming. They do with the interfaith.

What the work that Cassie Mayer does has been awesome as well so there are a lot of ways that you can grow at Suwannee and I've really appreciated all the support I've gotten.

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Alright thank you so I was born in the Middle East Ann I lived in majority. Muslim countries for majority of my life, moving to the USI thought that you know, I didn't have I wasn't surrounded by people of the same religious identity. I lost connection to my religion. I went to a Christian private Christian High School. So I didn't really have that there coming to Swanee. I don't really expect to find that here either. I don't think I would.

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Find people of the same religious identity as me, but then you know I came here and I met Cassie and she introduced me to the Interfaith Advisory Council and through the Interface Address Advisory Council I met other Muslim students and they have been here and we have more this year. Thankfully, and with those students, we got to start up the MSA again and through the MSA I would say.

That's how Sony support me and flourishing of my religious identity because I get to work with the MSA to makes wanting more accommodating for Muslim students and students overall. And you know, now, like I am surrounded by people of the same religious identity that can help me flourish within my faith as well as people other religious identities that are different from mine that can also help me flourish in my faith.

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Just do the Interfaith Advisory Council and I always say this. I feel like I learned to love my faith more by learning about other faiths because it's just you know, we have the dialogue across difference is program through that and just through the counseling through talking to other people. It's just so beautiful how unique we all are an just by our differences. It makes me just love my faith. Moran, like appreciate and respect and love. Their faith as well, and I don't know why.

That's how I just I love it here.

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Brian your turn.

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That's great, thanks I'll be all for sharing that I'm wondering the next question that we have for you and then I think after that will probably open it up for anything else that you all feel like you want to say, and then we can see if we have questions in in the chat and if not an Peter and I will come up with some other questions to ask but I'm curious to hear from each of you and we can start we can start with Sarah again and just go in the same order? Why do you think a student of your religious or ethical identity should come to Swanee?

Well, I mean, if your piscop alien Suwannee is kind of known as like the Disney World for the fiscal church, I don't really know what else to say about that, because doesn't that just sound awesome?

But yeah, so I. I feel like if you were in a piscop alien and I definitely felt this when I was in Boston is like not a lot of people knew it. So when he was. But if you wanted to an Episcopal Church, there were people there who knew what? So when he was and had some kind of connection to it. So that's been really special for me, because the Episcopal Church is kind of such a small world. It's been really, really fun to connect with people through the Suwannee community.

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Yeah, I would just say that.

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There are just, so there's just a lot of people who love this church here, and it's really fun to interact with all the different kind of walks of life that love the service in the community and the scripture that we we practice the visible church.

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OK OK OK good. I think a student of my religious identity and any religious identity really should come to Suwannee because I I just. I believe it's a place that really is dedicated to helping it's flourish no matter the religious identity. But also it helps students flourish within their religious identity. I believe this school is dedicated to building community surrounding topics of faith. An inclusion on it provides us. It's a safe and supportive.

Space for students from all religious traditions, including Islam, and not only that, but you know the faculty here is so extremely understanding and supportive. Like I said Cassie, she has helped us tremendously with the MSA. An just building dialogue with other faculty members are faculty advisor Professor Ahmed. He's been super helpful and even like Mcclurg staff, chef Caroline, and Chef.

Rick Szafryk, right here we like. We were having trouble with finding more accommodating food options for us when it came to like halal meat and stuff. We basically just like sat down with them. Some people from MSA sat down with them, talked about it and we got that sorted out and now we have a permanent like halal meat. You know in one of our lines and actually we're meeting tonight to talk more about that because Ramadan is coming up.

And we didn't get to do that last year. 'cause we got sent home early. But we're here, this year. Hopefully and we get to talk about that and just have them help us and finding ways to make sore anymore, accommodating in that area, so I think that's just I think that's why just because it's an extremely accepting campus when it comes to listening to its students.

When we come up you know with our ideas and stuff, and just helping us in that area. We just we feel heard so yeah.

And then Brian.

All right.

So as we prepare to receive questions. I'm just reminded that I forgot to mention some money praise, which is showing up in the slideshow. Right now, Sony praises a gospel choir on campus, which I don't have direct experience of because they've not been gathering due to covid right now.

But I think it's safe to say that's why he prays functions as as another religious community on campus, and that it's a place where folks gather and express their own spirituality in community.

And as it so happens, a professor Prakash, right, who's right there in the middle of that picture, is speaking at growing in grace this Sunday night.

I just wanted to hop on to mention there was one question in the chats. We have one question that has rolled in so just encourage participants. If you did have anything on your mind that you wanted to ask any of our panelists, you can use that for him. But then it kacian Peter. You might if you have any questions on your mind to ask. There shouldn't be Allison, I think that's very appropriate.

The question that we got from Rachel is, could a student attend services while staying faithful members to their home church? To kind of, I guess that transition moment in College of how you explore that.

Yeah, so for sure, I mean, one of the things that I may not have stated clearly is that we when we gather for worship on Sunday, within All Saints Chapel.

It is an ecumenical and sometimes Inter religious gathering right so you might have a gathering of Methodist and Baptist and Catholic students and oftentimes Catholic students will not receive communion out of their own of spiritual practice and that's fine. They participate as they feel so moved I will say also every Sunday at least in the morning services.

There's a moment in the service where we pray for.

Various folks in our common life, but one of the things we pray for is our home communities and that is in those prayers intentionally because I understand that what we are doing here on this mountain is supporting and nurturing you in your own.

Faith development and part of that includes staying connected to your home communities. And so we do what we can to provide you what you need while you're here.

But we're not the same thing right you still have a place that you call home and we hope to make this another home.

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So that is the question that we've gotten thus far. So if there are questions that might be the most.

Um, yes pointed or questions on your mind or anything that students want to share. I'll open that up for you guys to navigate.

Open as I said that we got two questions.

Anne.

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So, are there opportunities for students to serve in All Saints Chapel is one of the questions.

That is a fine question, Sarah. I feel like you are the person to answer that question.

Yeah, so there are can you hear me, yeah OK? Yes, so there are opportunities to serve at All Saints Chapel. We have acolytes? Who are volunteer. Students who can work during the 11:00 AM and also during like Easter and.

Other Holidays, then we also Oh yeah, I'm on the left in that photo being an app light.

We also have the sacristan skills, which I mentioned that I'm a part of an what we do is we will work. The 8:00 AM. The 11:00 AM Evensong and growing in Grace as well as other services. Ann will help set up get whatever the clergy needs for the service and then will also clean up and participate, and bring up any.

Any of the gifts so and then we also have the.

Well and on cover times we have bread makers group. So people who prepare bread for the services for the Eucharist.

And we also have.

The what do they call it Peter? Is it linen or Justin linen skills?

Yeah, the altar Guild maybe?

Yeah.

That's what it is, of course. So the Altar Guild is also another way to serve.

Yeah, and if you have any other questions about any of those types of service. Feel free to ask.

And I want to add onto it. Sarah said one one role that I've not mentioned is that the Catechumen program, as I mentioned, is a kind of small group program. Andthere are. It's an intergenerational mix of folks, so students, faculty, staff and community members in non covid times and the people who facilitate groups.

Are also intergenerational, including some student catechists. And So what I like to say about All Saints is that it provides a place of comfort and support for folks who identifies as Christian and who wish to worship in the Christian tradition. And it provides. It's a place where you can take ownership and take leadership for your own religious identity, right? So there's great stuff going on, but it's not just you know me making it happen, right? It's it's. It's me. And Ann.

Wonderful staff and volunteers, all participating to build a worshipping Christian community.

Look and there's the choir we haven't talked about the choir yet.

Um the University choir is made. It is a religiously diverse group of folks who are interested in vocal music, but the principle place that they sing is on Sunday morning in worship, and so I believe this picture was taken after lessons and carols, which is a major festival right before the holiday break. The Christmas winter break.

You can see it's a big happy group of folks.

Facts we have one more question and then I opened it up well was asking about Catholic Mass and how often that happens in perhaps relationships with.

Other churches and communities.

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And my sense is that in non covid times Brian. Correct me if I'm wrong, although we're both new here that in non covid times students are going down to Good Shepherd and Deckard on a weekly basis. But Good Shepherd is also coming up once a month.

Yeah.

And I think we've touched on this, but I want to to do my due diligence and and post for Serena who's asked. Are students allowed to attend? Church is outside of the school, so I guess speaking at the broader point of know, what are the off campus options perhaps?

Yeah, so the answer to that is absolutely yes the.

Covid has created restrictions around that right, and that's actually been a significant piece of my work. Is working with folks like Brian and others this semester to figure out how do we.

How do we provide religious accommodations while also maintaining the bubble that is keeping us all safe? But so in addition to crew, which as we mentioned is a non denominational Christian fellowship which is has worship on Tuesday night, San has Bible studies throughout the week and occasionally pumpkin carvings.

There is a.

Church just down the road in Mont Eagle.

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His name I'm blanking on. Thank you Cassie, which is, I believe, identifies as non denominational and we have students and faculty and staff members who attend that worship. There's a Presbyterian Church not far, and then when you get further down the mountain to Winchester Deckard, there are a number of communities.

Because there all this time and there's a Methodist Church on the mountain where I go an again in pre covid times there was about 10 to 20 students who would attend there regularly and that pastor also did a Sunday morning gathering at starlings before the church service for college students.

There's also ODI parish as well, which is another smaller school church in downtown Swanee.

All paws on the Q&A. I don't see any currently in the queue, so if there are any questions on or I guess topics it any of you would like to speak to you again, you have the floor.

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Well, I I'm not even a year into this job and what I've discovered is that so I knew that I enjoyed working with the Piscop aliens to develop their own faith in religious practices before I came here. And what I have what I've discovered working in this wonderfully religiously diverse space is that I just love it, no matter the religious or ethical identity that folks have. It's been such a joy to work with. Brian as he is energized, the Swanee Catholic community, and taking leadership.

It's been a joy to work with.

The Piskel students you know to plan some stuff with the Jewish Student Association. I just I just get great delight out of it. So all of y'all who were watching this. I hope that you come here and then I hope that you seek me out just just knock down my door and let me know how you want to take leadership and how you wish to grow and develop in your in your religious identity and faith. Practice when you get here.

Thank you all.

And I would just sort of echo what Peter said. If you have questions about.

Different religious accommodations that you might need and you don't feel comfortable putting it in the chat. I'm going to put my email in the chat. Or maybe Taylor can put my email chat.

But just so feel free to reach out to me if you have specific questions or if you'd like to connect to a student of a particular religious background. He wasn't on this conversation. We can also help you do that. But I think this kind of connects back to what sono was saying.

I think because this is a place that values.

Um faith.

That means that there is a value of.

Seeking there's a value of.

Looking for deeper meaning and there's a value of doing that in Community with others. So if that is something that sounds exciting to you, I think this is this is the right place.

There was one question actually from registration and I think it sort of blends two topics.

But I guess the question is essentially asking are there resources within the realm of mental health within religious communities or within Austins or in a broader sense so kind of how those might work together as a student support system.

Yes, can you ask that question again? Taylor, I want to make sure that I understood it.

Yes.

Yeah, I hope I'm not convoluting, but it was about mental health resources within the Church or within like broader faith communities, so we could. It could be an opportunity to talk about our Wellness Center, but also kind of in a broader sense, how we can support students.

Sure.

So I understand us to do to be doing two things as it relates to.

Mental well being and flourishing first of all in so far as it depends on me right developing a healthy religious community at All Saints. I think is.

Is a critical piece of kind of providing an environment of flourishing for a lot of our students right to some extent building healthy communities is our first line of Defense as we seek to.

Help folks be well.

And then in addition, this goes back to the worship welcome partner stuff that I said. The staff of All Saints is is a partner with the Wellness Commons with counseling and psychological services to provide pastoral care as appropriate to whoever wants it. Slash needs it. So for instance, when there's a significant event on campus, if there's you know crisis event that we all need to respond to what you will hear is that caps has counselors available in the Wellness Commons and you will also hear.

That also in Chapel is open and holding space, and with chaplains present, that's a responsibility and a partnership that we take very seriously an again that's for everybody, right? There's no checking your physical card at the door right now. I'm not a counselor.

And so I'm very clear that that's not what I offer, but sometimes what you need is just somebody to listen to you, right? You don't need three sessions with a counselor, and that is something that we.

Are intentional now?

One thing I will say there was also super helpful for me this semester was there was a campus wide reading of the Book of Joy, which is an conversation between the Chip Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, and I was a part of the group through the greenhouse and helped lead that and the conversations that we had based on this book honestly felt like.

Big helpful therapy session alot of the time.

And so there is programming that the Chapel does, and interfaith groups do. That is that ends up just being another way to keep listening and building community and talking about issues and doing that within a really beautiful framework. That is the book of joy. So if you haven't checked out that book, you guys all should.

Say Well, I don't want to cut anyone off virtually it's sometimes hard to tell. Ann this is more straightforward question. But Libby is wondering how often are there possible services on campus.

Everyday but Saturday and sometimes Saturday, right? We so the the worship schedule is that on Sundays we have.

Eight o'clock 11:00 o'clock if you want to see what 11:00 o'clock service looks like, we have a live stream available every Sunday, except when there are glitches, and sometimes that happens.

And then.

Often we have a four o'clock Sunday service called even song, which is sung evening prayer service and then growing in Grace and Sunday at 6:30. And if you want to see what growing in Grace looks like, you can follow the All Saints Chapel Instagram page, which we post the speaker, not the service itself, and then Monday through Friday we have at least two services of one of morning prayer, one of evening prayer.

In Saint Augustine's Chapel, which is a small Chapel just to the side of the larger 10 look there it is.

And that is typically a very small group, but it's a good place to find the staff of All Saints Chapel we're typically in there praying this simple morning and evening service together, and there are usually a handful of students that float in and out.

During this season of lent which is the season of preparation in advance of Easter. We have daily communion services Monday through Friday, an?

Yeah, I don't think I'm forgetting anything I mean, there's 15 to 20. Services going on All Saints. Chapel every week. So when I say we worship I mean, we worship.

So I am going to pass on a question that the conchero you can jump in if I'm wrong, but I think it'd question that we get from perspective students and families. A lot is just about. I think identity is how that relates to your college transition. So I think in this lens of whether that is your religious identity or just you know what what you witnessed as a as a college student in that transformation. If there's been one at all, or if it's really just been affirming. And for any of our student panel is how do you feel like you?

You talk about how you flourishment behavior, growing stress yourself.

That's funny or encourage appear to do that, or someone encourage you to do that.

If you feel comfortable answering them.

Yeah, like I said, before when I was prospective turn up when I was a first year student coming to All Saints at the 11:00 AM service was super grounding for me.

And it was a way for me to feel at home, even when I was really far away from home.

And I started taking you can and actually talked a lot about this in my growing in Grace talks. So if you're curious. You can go on the Instagram page and see it, but just taking religious studies classes and feeling like.

Wow, I don't know what I believe anymore. Oh my goodness. What's going on, um, but then coming back to it. For me coming back, and feeling very grounded in my faith after a period of of questioning.

And so I guess to answer that question it's it's definitely been like an uphill downhill slope, but it's really it's really made me feel stronger in my faith and I'm just really happy that I have the resources and the people to talk to like like Sona was saying and Cassie was saying that.

You know we have conversations about faith and values and identity a lot here, and not only does that help you grow like as a student, but also just as a person, and it's definitely shaped my character and I I can't say that I'm the same person. I was a freshman because of that, but in a really good way I think.

How I'll say something I as I said like before coming to Swanee. I felt like very like lost lost in my faith I I remember I made a friend freshman year she's not here anymore. She's not this one anymore but she I was telling her like you know when I'm home sick I'm having a really rough time like just.

Nothing and she basically like recommended to me. Hey like she's also a Muslim student. She was like how about like you start praying and before I came to Swanee like I had like I hadn't done that. You know I used to see my mom pray and like my gram my grandparents and stuff but I had like never thought to do that and it's crazy that like I went through my entire life like 18 years of my life. You know being a you know Muslim person living in the Middle East like being surrounded by mosques is seeing that my entire life within coming here and just having a friend.

Who is from the same religious identity you recommend I like do this thing and now it's just like a regular five times a day.

You know so.

Coming to Suwannee has been really grounding for me.

Regarding my religious identity.

Yeah.

Thank you guys for sharing.

And it asked Sharon if he can navigate us towards the social media handles, so I know we've talked about social media a lot and I think.

We encourage students to have you use social media engaged there because it's it's sort of the behind the scenes it you get to see almost real time right? And in some formats and channels. What's going on on campus and what conversations are happening in what are students up to. So here are some of the ones that have been mentioned. Don't take up too much space, so Peter Cassie, any students. I think as we close out anything that you want to add or talk about.

But social media related artists in general.

I got nothing.

Yeah, I would just add you know feel free to reach out to me or or chaplain Gray or others. If you have specific questions that you want to talk more about or you want to hear more about what this one experiences like.

Really grateful to Sarah and Brian and SANA for sharing a little piece of your stories.

Yes, thank you all things to all of our panelists and all of our participants. We will be granted next week off will be back on March 29th to talk a little bit more about campus Life and all of that Encompass is and will have more sessions in April as well. But thanks for joining us and just to echo Cassie, if you know our office or campus partners can be of any assistance and helping you understand more about Swanee, that's what we're here for.

The students are different organization, so reach out to us and thank you so much again to our panelists and for everyone. Joining today will go ahead and sign up. Thank you guys so much.

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Thank you bye.

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