Center for Religious & Spiritual Life

Reflect | Resist | Rejuvenate

The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life is an interreligious, nondenominational body that promotes spiritual flourishing for all students, religious and nonreligious alike. Our areas of focus are ethical reflection, social and racial justice and civic engagement, mindfulness and contemplative practice, and community building based in dialogue and respect. We provide resources grounded in different faith and wisdom traditions, and strive to raise religious literacy and promote interfaith engagement toward a more inclusive, just and engaged citizenry. In the midst of a vibrant academic community, we encourage explorations of mystery, faith, ritual and that which we experience as holy.

We invite you to reflect, resist, rejuvenate with us, and remember—whoever you are, wherever you have been and wherever you are going, you are welcome here.

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Events & Programs

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Resources

Student Organizations

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Community

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Spaces

Helen Hills Hills Chapel

Our Mission

The Smith Center for Religious & Spiritual Life offers guidance and pastoral care through a lens of mutuality and exploration, and we collaborate to respond with grace and courage to the events that threaten to disrupt our lives. We are invested in what Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King and others before him called the “beloved community,” a dynamic vision in which the worth, dignity and promise of each human is honored and in which we strive to live as stewards of the earth and its creatures.

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About the Center

The Smith Center for Religious & Spiritual Life is a unique setting for student engagement.

Our Staff

Our staff members are here to guide and assist you in your spiritual growth and fulfillment.

To learn more about what we're up to each semester, be sure to read our newsletter.

Student Advisory Board

The CRSL Student Advisory Board fosters collaboration and dialogue between students and the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life.

Featured Events

Featured Event

Apr

An On-Campus Memorial to Mark the Pandemic Year: From Remembrance to Hope

Boathouse Lawn 5pm
A welcoming, community memorial ritual wherein participants will have the opportunity to share and remember loved ones or other acquaintances they may have lost over the course of the year, from Covid or other losses, as well as mark the “dreams deferred” from this time of disruption. This space has been chosen due to the special meaning of Paradise Pond on the Smith Campus, and because of the ways in which water represents and reflects spirituality for many people. Event will begin AT 5 PM, on Boathouse Lawn Thursday 4/15. Social distancing and masks are required. Sign up here

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Toward Racial Justice at Smith - A Living Document for Community Comment

Smith College has embarked on the first phase of an emerging strategic plan for racial justice. The proposed recommendations have been informed by student, staff and faculty contributions to Inclusion in Action work, consideration of student and alumnae/i demands, and discussions with the Inclusion Council and President’s Cabinet.

In this time of urgent racial crisis, we invite comment, critique and refinement of this emerging plan.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PLAN