Bonnier Multifaith Center

Rooted in the College’s core values of faith, justice, community, service and excellence, the purpose of the Bonnier Multifaith Center is to foster lives of engaged compassion through cultivating diverse religious and spiritual practices. Activities in the Center will include personal and communal meditation and prayer, interfaith conversations, text studies, and contemplative practices that sustain social justice activism. We invite all members of the Gustavus community, regardless of their religious and philosophical commitments, to use the Center for personal prayer, reflection, and meditation during unscheduled times and to request and use the Center’s space for organized religious, spiritual, or contemplative practices. 

In the News

The Bonnier Multifaith Center was recently featured in The Campus View newsletter in an article about religious diversity at Gustavus.

Dr. Marian Broida, Interfaith Program Coordinator, mbroida@gustavus.edu

Dr. Broida has taught Bible and Jewish Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College since the fall of 2015. She completed her MA in Jewish Studies and her PhD in Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, specializing in Hebrew Bible. One of Dr. Broida’s greatest joys is providing avenues for non-Jewish and Jewish students to learn about Judaism. In 2016, she taught a January term course on experiencing the Passover Seder. That April she organized and co-led a campus Seder at Gustavus for approximately 200 students, faculty, and others, with the help of students in her Jewish Studies courses.

Multifaith Holiday Calendar - 2017-2018

To add this calendar to your Google calendar, please copy and paste this URL into "Other calendars/Add by URL": 
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/ij2tevurqv8ulg8neu8t8qts5k%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Notes:

Jewish and Muslim holidays begin in the evening on the first date listed.

Not all Muslims will recognize the listed dates; they may require direct observation of the moon.

Some cultures mark Buddhist holidays on different dates.