{"id":21903,"date":"1999-09-08T00:00:15","date_gmt":"1999-09-08T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21903"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:36:41","slug":"spiritual-journeys2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1999\/09\/08\/spiritual-journeys2\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard theologian opens spiritual journeys series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Spalding, co-pastor of Boston&#8217;s Church of the Covenant and Protestant chaplain at Harvard University, will discuss <em>Holy Dissonance: The Pleasures of Being a Religious Misfit<\/em> at Bates College from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall. The public is invited to attend this Spiritual Journeys lecture without charge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spalding will discuss what to do when you can&#8217;t find a religious or spiritual home, and what to do when the available religious options don&#8217;t seem to fit.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain at Bates, the Spiritual Journeys lecture series features speakers from a variety of traditions who tell the stories of their spiritual awakening and development. Speakers are invited to explore how they experience a sense of the holy in their everyday lives, how their perspectives and disciplines have shaped that sacred experience and how they understand religion as a resource or an obstacle to the life of the soul. Speakers may also address the political and social consequences of their spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>Next in the Spiritual Journeys series, Delle McCormick, from the Cuernavaca Center for Intercultural Dialogue on Development, will discuss <em>A Feminist Lesbian Minister&#8217;s Journey Among the Poor in Mexico<\/em> from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Spalding, co-pastor of Boston&#8217;s Church of the Covenant and Protestant chaplain at Harvard University, will discuss &#8220;Holy Dissonance: The Pleasures of Being a Religious Misfit at Bates College&#8221; from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall. The public is invited to attend this Spiritual Journeys lecture without charge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39,11009],"tags":[6111,8087],"class_list":["post-21903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-the-college","tag-multifaith-chaplaincy","tag-spiritual-journeys-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92394,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21903\/revisions\/92394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}