Chaplain Carolyn Fure-Slocum

Chaplain Carolyn Fure-Slocum

Chaplaincy

Well, I really see the role of the chaplain here [at Carleton] is to, I always say this, there's three parts to it. The first is to help people of all religious backgrounds to practice in whatever way is appropriate to them. So we have, I have a different way of doing services here so, well actually let me talk through the three and I'll come back to that. So it's to help people of a particular faith to practice in appropriate ways. The second is to help people to learn about other traditions, both for the sake of their own spriritual search but also for the sake of cross-cultural communcation and understanding. And the third is really to explore meaning in their lives whether they have a religious background or not. So, you know, 'Why and how are we here?' and 'What am I to do with my life?' kinds of big questions. So, everything we do is surrounding one of those three things if not all three at once. That said, I'd say my major emphasis has been on interfaith dialogue, so we have a very strong interfaith dialogue group on campus and then also on social justice work. So we have a social justice internship program for people to do internships during the summer within the U.S. that I helped launch. Then we have an interfaith social action group that's much like the Chicago Interfaith Youth Core work except we started it separately, that works on immigration issues primarily. So I'd say my, out of, out of those three huge topic areas I'd say my major emphasis has been on interfaith dialogue and social justice, big base social justice.

Kevin Dowling

Religion Department (Carleton College)

2014

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