Welcome to Religious Life at Duke University!
Our Mission
As representatives from a wide array of faiths, traditions, and beliefs, we have come
together as a Religious Life Staff, in order that Duke University may be a place where
religious expression is valued and tangibly supported, that we can better foster the
spiritual development of the various communities and individuals we serve and of the
University population as a whole.
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The Chapel and Religious Life at Duke: Some Issues
and Proposals
by
Sam Wells and Craig Kocher
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Religious Holidays
Duke
Policy and Listing of Religious
Holidays
Religious Life Funding Forms
$500/year Religious Life Group Stipends
Mission
Trip Funding
Application
Funding Applications Deadlines
The funding applications deadline for 07-08 is past. Next year's
deadlines will be posted in September.
Members of the Religious Life staff at their August 2007 retreat
in the Duke Gardens
Religious Life at Duke
Duke University currently has more
than 25 religious life groups on campus representing Protestant,
Catholic, non-denominational, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, and
Hindu faiths, making it one of the most religiously active and
diverse universities in the world. The deans of the Chapel,
along with over 35 campus ministers, chaplains, and professional
staff, provide leadership to more than 1,500 students involved
in religious life on campus.
Through worship, study, friendship, and service, students
are encouraged to grow in their faith. The Chapel provides
opportunities to interact with speakers the likes of Peter
Gomes, Cornel West, Thomas Moore, and Maya Angelou. Ecumenical
and interfaith services, such as the Blessing of Animals and
the Martin Luther King, Jr., Remembrance, encourage interfaith
dialogue and appreciation. Students will find numerous opportunities
to go out into the world in service, as far away as Honduras,
Israel, and Bolivia, and as close as Washington, D.C., and
Durham, NC. And the Duke
Chapel Pathways program holds resources
for vocational discernment and leadership development too many
to count.
If you already are active in a Religious Life group on campus,
we're thrilled and want to know how we can serve you better.
If you are not, we'd like nothing more than to help you get
involved. So check out our site. Send us an e-mail. Give us
a call. Let us take you to lunch.* We're delighted you're here
and hope our paths will cross soon.
The Reverend Craig T. Kocher
Associate Dean of the Chapel and Director of Religious Life
* If youd like to have lunch with
one of the Chapel Deans, please send an e-mail to the Staff Assistant to the Dean or
to Craig Kocher.
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