Archive: Reflections

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Reflections

Finding Connection and Grounding through Contemplation in Daily Life

This past October, Campus Ministry offered a new program to all Georgetown students called Contemplation in Daily Life. The program offered opportunities to engage in…

November 24, 2020

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Consoling the Community: Meditation with the John Main Center

Lisa Directo Davis, program director for the John Main Center for Meditation and Interreligious Dialogue (JMC), and her team of student leaders continued to offer their virtual…

September 3, 2020

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Reimagining Residential Ministry for a Virtual World

It’s not an exaggeration to say that this semester is unprecedented. I’m starting my fifteenth year living in a university residence hall—hard to believe!—and never in…

September 2, 2020

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Windows on Eternity

Icons are sacred objects in Eastern Orthodoxy. One reason for their reverence is that they remind us who we are, our dignity and high calling in baptism. Through a very generous…

August 4, 2020

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Reflections from a Christian on Racial Justice Activism

A little over a month ago I had the opportunity to participate, along with a group of friends, in one of many protests occurring nationwide in response to the unacceptable…

July 14, 2020

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Malcolm Morse (L’21): Questioning White Commitment to Black Lives Matter

As I looked towards the Capitol, I saw a sea of people beginning to march in my direction down Pennsylvania Avenue. Myself and my fellow Georgetown Black Law Students(…

July 10, 2020

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Protest as Testimony: Honoring George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter Movement

On June 6, Rev. Ebony Grisom (left) and Matt Hall (right) led a contingent of Campus Ministry staff to protest the murder of George Floyd and systemic racism. Here they share…

July 9, 2020

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Maxine Walters (L’21): Finding the Church in the Midst of Protest

Maxine Walters (pictured right) is a Juris Doctor Candidate, Class of 2021, and president of the Black Law Students Association at the Georgetown University Law Center. She…

June 26, 2020

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From Lament to Justice: a reflection by Rev. Ebony Grisom

On June 15, 2020, Rev. Ebony Grisom, Protestant chaplain, offered the following reflection during Campus Ministry’s Interfaith Prayer Service at Dahlgren Chapel. You can…

June 19, 2020

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Anti-Blackness: A View From Dharmic Life

|| Namaste || || Auṁ Svastir Astu || In the days following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer of the United States, the clarion call for action from the afflicted…

June 18, 2020