Interfaith
CLU provides experiences in which students not only can express and explore their own faith and begin to understand and appreciate the religious beliefs and practices of others.
Roland Miller, in his book Muslim Friends: Their faith and feeling, An Introduction to Islam writes that it is important to know each other's history, theology and practices yet it is through friendships that real transformation is made. CLU is a place that values religion in life and affords opportunity for religious practice in an environment of free inquiry.
- The Wennes Meditation Chapel is open 24 hours a day. Resources from major world religions are being gathered in the bookshelf for your use. People are all faith traditions are welcome to gather there for reflection and prayer.
- Thousand Oaks has many worship centers, mosques, temples, and churches that welcome CLU students as participants and members. View a brief listing here »
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Come Together Now
It matters what we share together. A time of dialogue with people of many different faith traditions. This is a safe place to learn from the spiritual journeys of others, ask questions, and talk together. People of all faith traditions are welcome to gather for reflection and prayer.
President Obama has said that "the values that unite us as Americans are far more powerful than those that divide us". Might this be the same for us at CLU although we are people from many nations and faiths?
Once a month in February, March and April. Time and location to be determined.
CLU is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Rev. Mark Hanson, Presiding Bishop of the ELCA, has said that "the vocation of a Lutheran college is to plant deep within students a lifelong unquenchable curiosity about God, about the meaning of life and being human, and the centrality of faith; an unquenchable curiosity about the vastness of the cosmos, the intricacies of DNA, and the beauty of the earth; the complexities of science, math, and economics; the richness of history; an unquenchable curiosity about life's big questions. It is vital that ELCA universities value and provide for religious study as an important tool for the intellectual exploration of the big questions of life such as: What makes life meaningful? What does it mean to be human? How do we live together on this planet?"
— from "Reflections on Our Shared Commitments", an address presented at the Lutheran Education Conference of North American on March 1, 2007.
