What is the University Chaplaincy?
The following begins to answer this question. We are here for all members of the Tufts community.
- We provide opportunities for people to practice and deepen in their own religious and philosophical traditions, while fostering understanding and respect for other traditions.
- We provide opportunities for people to discern their values and gather in community with those who share them.
- We provide opportunities to learn about and engage with the diverse religious and philosophical traditions and communities represented at Tufts and in the world.
- We provide opportunities for meaningful and collaborative service and social justice work by those who share spiritual and ethical values.
- We provide a safer space and approaches for asking life’s big questions and discussing complex and controversial issues.
- We provide opportunities for the integration of mind, body, and spirit.
- We encourage leadership development and community building.
- We seek to foster the creation of a climate of religious pluralism, characterized by religious and nonreligious diversity, respect for difference, and collaboration.
- We provide a place where people can come to talk and find support in times of crisis and transition.
- We lead and coordinate blessings and rituals for the Tufts community.
- We support the integration of spiritual and ethical questions in the pursuit of academic and professional excellence.
- We support the Tufts community in collaborative dialogue and action toward the goals of human rights for all people and eco-social justice for marginalized communities and for our world.