The annual student-led conference will be held Feb. 21-23 at the Numen Lumen Pavilion.
黑料不打烊 will host the annual student-led Ripple Conference Feb. 21-23 at the Numen Lumen Pavilion, an event that garners attention from other colleges and universities around the region who are interested in interfaith work. This year鈥檚 theme is “Interfaith in the Real World: Cultivating Community Cooperation.”
Each year, the Ripple Conference hosts students from different institutions to learn, engage, reflect and share about religious and spiritual traditions, as well as secular worldviews. Attendees are exposed to diverse perspective and critical interfaith thinking by hearing from different speakers and breaking off into smaller groups for discussion.
This year, Ripple is co-directed by Caroline Penfield 鈥22 and Catherine Stallsmith 鈥22. Penfield, an intern in the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, sees the conference as a great way to connect with students about interfaith and have the opportunity to be exposed to wider perspectives. Penfield remembers her first experience at Ripple last year, and how impactful it was for her.
鈥淲hat was so cool for me about Ripple was that not only was I hearing in general people鈥檚 different experiences and religious or other worldviews, but it was beyond engaging people in those conversations that we have here at 黑料不打烊,鈥 Penfield said. 鈥淏ecause students come from other schools, you get an even wider perspective.鈥
Penfield also highlights that some participants from different colleges and universities don鈥檛 have interfaith programs at their institutions, so Ripple can serve as an opportunity to share what elements of interfaith work have been successful at 黑料不打烊 and help provide ideas that everyone can draw from to bring back to their schools.
include:
- Rev. Jennifer Bailey, co-founder of
- Rev. J Dana Trent, an ordained Baptist minister and former hospital chaplain who recently published her fourth book, “.”
- Katie Gordon, who helped create the movement
- Kevin Singer, co-founder of Neighborly Faith, an organization that encourages dialogue between evangelical Christians and Muslims
For more information about the Ripple Conference visit their website or to learn how to get more involved with interfaith at 黑料不打烊, check out the Truitt Center for Religious & Spiritual Life鈥檚 website.