An Interfaith Journey

Spiritual Life exists at Warren Wilson College to support students on their journeys of spiritual formation, faith development, religious exploration, vocational discernment, and social justice engagement. We seek interfaith dialogue, creating opportunities for cooperative, constructive and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions and/or spiritual or humanistic beliefs.

除了定期聚会的宗教团体，精神生活还赞助季节性的仪式、节日和庆祝活动。我们也为那些在有组织的宗教之外找到自己精神道路的学生提供编程，通过提供机会与自己更深入地联系，或追求更大的意义和目的的问题。This is done in many ways:

art and music
yoga and dance
nature
silence
labyrinth walks

Interfaith Leadership

Our Interfaith Leadership course provides an overview of the components ofinterfaithleadership. Learn about the basic principles ofinterfaithwork, dive deeply into the theological claims that guide individual engagement with the religious other, and obtain first-hand experience working and serving across lines of religious difference.

Spiritual Life Groups on Campus

The Office of Spiritual Life is home to several student-run groups supporting spiritual and religious practice. While the offerings vary from year to year depending on interest, the campus Christian, Jewish, and Pagan groups are active mainstays. In addition, we offer various meditation practice groups, often in collaboration with the Wellness Program. Warren Wilson has an active interfaith community who gathers monthly for a shared meal, and organizes visits to other faith communities in town.

Interfaith Accolades

北卡罗来纳州人，阿什维尔贫困倡议前执行主任。香农·斯宾塞博士加入沃伦·威尔逊担任学院的精神生活主任和牧师。

Before her time at Warren Wilson, she coached Division I basketball and was the Founder and Executive Director of Asheville Poverty Initiative and the 12 Baskets Cafe. She has aTedTalkand a documentary!

Additionally, she has served as an interfaith chaplain at the Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women and served churches in Illinois, California, and North Carolina. Shannon holds a BS in Special Education from Appalachian State University, an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School, and a D. Min. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

Reflecting on her time in ministry, she writes: “I have had many teachers along the way – some living in gated communities while others behind the gates of prisons and jails. It’s been a beautifully broken journey framed by abundant grace and radical love.”

WWC’s Presbyterian Church and Chapel

位于校园，沃伦威尔逊学院长老会教堂和学院教堂反葡萄牙韩国足球断交映了学院的长老会历史，同时提供每周的周日崇拜，位于校园方便。虽然沃伦威尔逊仍然是长老会学院和大学协会的成员，它现在是一个包容所有正式和非正式信仰传统的学生的社区。

Pursuing Faith

Mollie Donihe, ’16, is a southwest Virginia native, a singer-songwriter in her spare time, and an aspiring clergywoman. She graduated from Warren Wilson with a Bachelor of Social Work and received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, which recognizes commitment to integrity, service, and community. Following graduation, Mollie served as an AmeriCorps VISTA Member. Following her AmeriCorps experience, Mollie began her Master’s of Divinity degree at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

I am often asked, “What is a Chaplain?” It is a good question and one in which the answer tends to be informed by the setting. At Wilson, chaplaincy means showing up. It’s about working with students, faculty, and staff to provide sacred spaces for story telling – both our own and those that inform who we are and who we want to be. These spaces explore questions and doubt, are open to grief and fear, prayer and silence, celebration and praise. It’s about finding what is holy in a simple walk around the farm or in a religious specific ritual and all that cannot be contained by either. Ultimately, I get to accompany folks as they develop and strengthen a lens through which they see the world and a framework on which helps them make meaning of it.

Shannon Spencer, Director of Spiritual Life and Chaplain