Every week during the academic year, the Chaplain’s Office Telegram lets all subscribers know what’s new in the chaplain’s office and in religious life across campus. The telegram ends with Consider This, where one of our staff writes a short reflection for the week. Feeling particularly reflective? Browse our consider this archive below.
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These are challenging days. Nearly everywhere we look in the world, we are confronted with difficulties, suffering, and pain or the anxious…
Some years ago, one of my Buddhist teachers made a comment that caught my attention. “The root of anger is not fear,” she said, “but powerlessness…
In times that can feel anxious or chaotic, I can find it helpful to ask myself about how I’m grounded. What centers me and helps calm me? What…
As the chill of winter continues and I try to step outside as little as possible, I have been thinking about anchorites.
Just a few days ago I was in in the cities of Madina and Mecca for a pilgrimage known as Umrah with a group of students and community members…
As we begin this new semester, I find myself craving spaces for grounding. There is so much whirling around us that makes me feel somewhat…
When we arrive to an extraordinarily diverse place like Yale, we may be surprised upon encountering other religions and variations of our family’s…
As Chaplaincy Manager, much of my day can be wrapped up in emails and spreadsheets and administrative tasks. Recently, I stepped away from that…
We painted dawn into midnight Out of cement ceilings we made skylights From gravel, we crafted fine and delicate chandeliers hung them…
As we move through this season, the Chaplain’s Office offers a gentle reminder that we are here for you through all the complexities of being human…
Are you open to a chance meeting as you go about your day? The paved walkways of Old Campus are not the most efficient nor the most sensible. They…
“What if we stopped seeing rest as a reward for what we have just done and we started to see it as a preparation for what we are about to do?”
Today is October 7th, 2024, and our communities on campus have been in a year of mourning, grief, and sorrow. Naming our sorrow feels at once…
Anyone who’s stopped by the front desk in the Chaplain’s Office – or seen some of the little figures dotted about – may already know that I’m…
The semester is well underway, and alongside all the projects and plans and performances, come conflicts and late nights and worries. For me, I…
Generosity isn’t simply restricted to financial giving, but rather it is a virtue that everyone can possess if we reimagine what being generous…
Two weeks ago I was locked out of the Chaplain’s Office. I left my Yale ID in my office after walking a colleague out of Old Campus to help her…
From Maytal Saltiel’s opening assembly invocation:
Loving and holy spirit called on by many names; creator and sustainer of life, we gather here…
