About

We desire all persons within the Bates community to experience the Multifaith Chaplaincy as a good place to find and create life-giving relation.

We hope and strive to be a safe harbor, a source of refreshment and renewal, a resource for growth and wisdom, a maker of connections, a giver of unqualified compassion, a gathering of justice-makers.

We are a resource for members of the Bates community who are: participants in an established religious tradition; “spiritual but not religious;” agnostic, atheist, or secular humanists; curious, radically questioning, or just unsure about sacred matters; interested in social justice opportunities and contemplative practices.

Bates multifaith chaplains Bill Blaine-Wallace (back, second from left) and Emily Wright-Magoon (back center) pose with students of different faiths. From left, Ben McCall '11 of South Portland, Maine; Shachi Phene '12 of Lexington, Mass.; Limor Finkel '11 of Chelmsford, Mass.; Mustafa Basij-Rasikh '12 of Kabul, Afghanistan; and Adrian Morales '11 of Hialeah, Fla. Photograph by Jose Leiva/Sun Journal.