Chaplaincy and Religion in a Pluralistic World
Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY
Wednesday, February 2nd (4:30pm start) - Friday, February 4th (end at noon)
Key facilitators for this year's ChapToR event will be Reverend Tim Morehouse (Trinity School, NYC) and Rabbi Judd Levingston (Barrack Hebrew Academy, Bryn Mawr, PA), both of whom have extensive experience working in pluralistic environments. See more about Rev. Morehouse and Rabbi Levingston below.
This gathering with chaplains and teachers of religion from across North America will be a combination of presentation, discussion, and resource sharing. Topics of focus will include:
• Common Gathering Times
• Religion in the Curriculum
• Spiritual Development in a Pluralistic School
• Living Up to the Mission
• Community Buy-In
Participants are expected to leave with concrete ideas and practices for both religious gatherings and spiritual development, plus an expanded list of contacts and resources.
About the Key Presenters
The Reverend Timothy Morehouse is an Episcopal priest and has been Chaplain at Trinity School in New York City since 2004. In that capacity, he teaches religion and organizes Chapel for the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools. The oldest continuously operating Episcopal School in the United States, Trinity is also one of the most religiously and philosophically pluralistic, so much of his work involves understanding the ways in which a productive tension between Episcopal identity and religious pluralism can be productive in school life. He was a member of CSEE's interfaith Pathmaps Team of educators working to develop materials for spiritual growth in schools, and has worked for interfaith understanding and education in a variety of capacities, including with the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding and the Interfaith Center in New York. For the chapel page on Trinity School's website, please follow this link.
Rabbi Judd Kruger Levingston, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Jewish Studies at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy (formerly Akiba Hebrew Academy) in Bryn Mawr, PA. The first rabbi who is an alumnus of Phillips Exeter Academy, he attended college at Harvard University, and he has taught in a variety of independent school settings, including a boarding school, an all-girls school, an all-boys school, an Episcopalian school and Jewish schools. The author of Sowing the Seeds of Character: The Moral Education of Adolescents in Public and Private Schools, he studied Muslim, Roman Catholic, Quaker, Jewish, public, Chinese and non-sectarian schools to see how different school cultures cultivate values in their students. Currently he is pursuing research on the ways in which play from childhood into adolescence helps shape character and personal morals. He is an avid bicycle commuter who lives in Northwest Philadelphia with is family, including children in upper school, middle school and lower school.
Accommodations
Registration for this conference includes accommodations and meals at Garrison Institute, on the Hudson River just north of New York City.