Religious and Spiritual Life

Responsible for fostering and nurturing spiritual growth and wholeness during your years of living and learning at Ursinus College.

Celebration of Lights occurs at the end of fall semester and aims to promote awareness, tolerance, acceptance, and love across campus. Candle lighting follows a share of traditions, refreshments, and performances.
Meditation, mindfulness and gratitude are celebrated within our spiritual communities through annual and weekly events and spaces for our students.
Bomberger Hall houses the center for the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life at Ursinus College. Ben Allwein ’18
On Family Weekend, Hillel sponsored a shabbat service for students and their visiting families.
Every January, the Office of religious and Spiritual Life leads the MLK Day Interfaith Ceremony, which brings together faith leaders, students returning for the start of spring semester and the Collegeville community.

Encouraging students to explore and develop their spiritual life as part of a liberal arts education.

In concert with the College’s goal to provide a transformative experience for students, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life at Ursinus is designed to help students explore, nurture, and strengthen their spiritual lives. The objective of the department is to provide students with a means to express their faith, if they wish to do so, in a safe, respectful, and open manner.

providing space for students to engage and explore quintessential questions

The primary goal is to provide an integrative space for students to engage and explore quintessential ontological questions that have to do with making meaning of the self in relation to the world and aspects of the Quest core curriculum that asks students to thoughtfully consider answers to four fundamental questions:

What should matter to me?
How should we live together?
How can we understand the world?
What will I do?

we value diversity of thought and belief

Because of our Ursinus tradition of encouraging intellectual curiosity, interdependent living and the interplay of diverse voices, we strive to promote interfaith cooperation and religious literacy in order to foster inclusive relationships and attitudes within our campus community.

Religious and Spritual Life Observance Policy