Religious & Spiritual Life — Faith
Religious services, learning, community and mentorship
The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life (RSL) helps students to live their faith, explore spiritual practices, and make meaning within themselves and the world. We strive to meet each student where they are—whether continuing within a religious or humanist tradition, seeking among them, or exploring outside of them. We work to support personal wholeness, interfaith understanding, and collective wellbeing.
The Mission of Amherst College includes preparing students to go on from the College to "lead principled lives of consequence." RSL understands such a life to comprise a balance of many factors. We must clarify and work to enact our values, and we also need time for rest and joy. We cherish the wisdom and purpose of the individual, and we also embrace the benefits of decentering our smaller selves to feel and be a part of something larger. We celebrate the learning mind, and seek to equally foster the empathic heart.
For detailed programming info, please refer to our RSL calendar.
Rhe Center for Religious and Spiritual Life is located in room 017 of the Keefe Campus Center. Chaplains and student staff work out of that space on a rotating schedule, and would love to chat and connect with you!
The Center for Religious & Spiritual Life produces a monthly newsletter covering our ongoing and special events. You can subscribe to the newsletter and read our current and past issues using the links below.