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"My job is relationships.  It’s all about connecting with individual students or small groups, and my focus is how I can help a person take his/her next step on their spiritual journey... It’s mostly just getting out there and asking people what they’re passionate about..."

Meet eight very different people active in spiritual life at Beloit

“I was raised in a Methodist family, but when I was a teen I fell  out of it. I’d say I was agnostic, leaning atheist.  Then when I came to Beloit, I started taking religious studies courses.  I was very intrigued by Judaism..." Click here for more of Schyler's story

“As a refugee, I practiced privately. Now that I’m here I still internalize it.  Being religious is a part of my being, but it’s a private part.  It gives me a clear mind.  I think it’s easy to be Muslim here..."  Click here for more of Zaid's story

“It was yoga that brought me back.  I started saying prayers through the poses... Yoga is a huge part of faith for me.  [Conversely,] I see going to church as a form of meditation.  I’ve gone to mass again in my home church, but not yet in Beloit.  I’m actually really excited because this week I’m going to mass for the first time since coming to college..."     Click here for more of Mike's story

“I was born Catholic, but my family stopped attending mass when I was about 4, and instead we developed our own spiritual ideas.  Mass was replaced by nature walks in the botanical gardens, where I fell in love with the outdoors.  By senior high school, I was Pagan...” Click here for more of Alice's story

“When I was older, I did a lot of searching, looking into religions to find what I wanted to believe and I ended up with Islam. Back where I started. It’s been wonderful—I very passionately identify as a Muslim. I think that’s the first thing that would come out if anyone were to ask me who I am..." Click here for more of Mashail's story

“I’m connected with victims [of abuse in U.S. detention] whether I know them or not.  That’s where faith comes in: you don’t have to look them in the eye or agree with them, but you can still say, ‘this should not be happening to you...’” Click here for more of Carol's story

"I've learned a lot about myself and what my own personal beliefs involve.  For me, all religions have it kind of correct; no one religion is necessarily more ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ than another, which actually makes this process longer and more difficult..." Click here for more of Devon's story

“Since probably my mid-20s, I’ve thought of myself as a spiritual person.  At that time, I was dissatisfied with my religious affiliations or the religious frames that I had grown up with in Jamaica and began searching for something else... Judaism spoke to the spiritual connectedness I was looking for and provided a religious framework that made sense...”  Click here for more of Lisa's story