Butler University Center for Faith and Vocation

Join us for the A New View Film Series 2024-2025 season. Our first film is "Mission Joy". How is joy expressed through interfaith relationships and lifelong commitments to service? Join us fora post-film discussion. Free and open to all.

We are in the process of implementing a name change throughout our platforms. Stay tuned.

Join us on Monday, February 26th, for Black and Jewish! This seminar will involve the showing of the film, “Queen Esther,” and a discussion with the filmmaker Ira Mallory and two featured actresses – Erreol Robinson and Paige Wells, who will specifically discuss their specific roles. Ira Mallory is native to Indianapolis and in addition to responding to audience questions about the film, he will discuss how the intersections of his Jewish faith and his filmmaking work allow him to be more authentic.

Join us for a showing of Shiva Baby on January 31st at 7 P.M. The film Shiva Baby explores Jewish and bisexual identity and representation as a young, bisexual Jewish woman attends a shiva (Jewish mourning gathering) with her parents. BCR credit is available for students with small group discussion after the film!

Tonight is the first night of the Jewish Festival of Lights.

NEXT MONTH: Beginning Mindfulness Meditation with Butler University’s Center for Faith and Vocation Assistant Director Marguerite Stanciu

As part of Butler’s Lifelong Learning Collaborative, Marguerite is teaching a four-week course on mindfulness.

Mindfulness meditation calms the mind and awakens the heart and helps us to encounter life circumstances with greater confidence. Meditation connects us with our overall wellness by harmonizing mind and body, working with our anxiety and building resilience, resulting in more aliveness and appreciation for ourselves, others and the world in which we live. Many faith and philosophical traditions include various meditation and prayer practices and while mindfulness meditation is rooted in the Buddhist tradition, here it is presented as a secular practice.

Participants will learn about the history of mindfulness meditation, receive instruction in the practices and meditate together as meditating in community helps to develop a regular meditation practice and is an opportunity to learn about and to share experiences in connection with mindfulness.

Details:
November 7, 14, 28, December 5
9:00–10:00 AM
On Campus
Cost: $100
To register, click the link attached below!

Beginning Mindfulness Meditation 11/7 - 12/5/23 - Lifelong Learning Mindfulness meditation calms the mind and awakens the heart and helps us to encounter life circumstances with greater confidence. Meditation connects us with our overall wellness by harmonizing mind and body, working with our anxiety and building resilience, resulting in more aliveness and appreciat...

Please join us on November 2 at 7 p.m. for the New View Film showing of Rebound. Rebound follows two women from starkly different circumstances as they rebound from incarceration and seek refuge and opportunity in academia. Struggling to recognize their worth and still reeling from years of trauma, these aspiring scholars navigate personal and financial insecurity, motherhood, and their own healing (finding) acceptance, sisterhood and hope for a new life (Gooddocs). A post-film discussion will feature local experts involved in a project working with incarcerated women with children. Please complete this form to let the CFV know if you can attend! https://bit.ly/3Lwoyyf

Join us on Monday, October 30 at 7 p.m. for our next seminar Black and Muslim. This event is free and open to the public. Please complete this form to let the CFV know if you can attend! https://bit.ly/3Lwoyyf

Join us Tuesday for our first seminar of the semester - Black and Buddhist. This event is free and open to the public!

Join us on September 13 for our first film of the year: Monk with a Camera. This event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there! 🎥

A screening of The Magnitude of All Things will end this year's A New View Film Series. Join us on March 29 from 7:30 -9:00 PM at the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall to explore the relationship between eco grief and hope through the experiences of filmmaker Jennifer Abbott.

This event is free and open to the public both in person and on Livestream, and students at Butler University can receive a BCR credit by attending.

RSVP through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-new-view-film-series-the-magnitude-of-all-things-tickets-585822148817

Help the CFV continue to meet the moment on the Butler Day of Giving! The CFV works to ensure that all folks of faith and secular life have a home on Butler's campus. We engage dialogue and reflection across different perspectives of faith and purpose and work to bring mindfulness and wellness resources to campus during challenging seasons for students.

We need your help to continue providing this resource for students through your donations! Donate to the CFV anytime today or tomorrow before 6:00 PM using the link below.

https://butler.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-day/64734/department/64749.

Take a look at whats coming up for the Center for Faith and Vocation!

Thank you to everyone who attended A New View Film Series: The Loving Generation! The CFV is grateful to the panelists, event hosts, and audience members who participated in fostering meaningful conversations throughout this event.

Due to inclement weather A New View Film Series: The Loving Generation has been postponed. The Center for Faith and Vocation has rescheduled this event for February 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM in Eidson Duckwall Hall.

This event is free for everyone and available through livestream! For more information visit the CFV website or the Butler Arts Center.

Join us in watching The Loving Generation on January 25 at 7:00 PM as a part of A New View Film Series. This film dives deep into the aftermath of 1967 Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia.

Livestream with us here: https://butlerartscenter.org/performance/a-new-view-film-series-the-loving-generation/

On Wednesday, November 9, 2022, come enjoy the second screening in a NewView Film Series, A Ballerina's Tale. This stunning documentary showcases the first African American principal dancer, Misty Copeland, and sheds light on the absence of women of color in the industry. In addition to the screenings themselves, each film is accompanied by a time of discussion and reflection, exploring each film's unique themes.
All screenings will be presented at the Eidson - Duckwall Recital Hall or virtually at flyrail.butlerartscenter.org.

Screenings are free to all community members, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.

For more information, please visit our Eventbrite for here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/453909574757

And visit the CFV website linked in our bio!

Thank you to all who joined us last night at Faith in Indiana! It was empowering to hear how panelists David Bethuram, Lori Joundi, Josh Riddick and Ray Wilson are dedicated to helping their perspective communities all throughout Indiana. If you would like to read more about Faith in Indiana be on the lookout for a story on the CFV blog coming this friday!

Mark your calendars for the next part of the Faith and Activism Series: Faith Sustaining Activism with Dr. Karla Jackson-Brewer, on February 7, 2023 at 7 PM. For more information please visit the CFV website in our bio!

Join the Center for Faith and Vocation Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, at 7:00 PM, for a riveting conversation with featured panelists to discuss the vibrant network of interfaith activism in Indiana. Faith and Activism in Indiana is located at the Shelton Auditorium on Butler University's campus, and is free for all public and student attendees.

To join the virtual livestream and find more information about the Faith and Activism Series, please visit https://butlerartscenter.org/?_ga=2.146069104.599916226.1661726248-1215704104.1661354986

For accessibility information and accommodations, please visit www.butler.edu/event-accommodations

Visit our Eventbrite for more details! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/faith-and-activism-in-indiana-tickets-449502683627

Happy Rosh Hashanah to all who celebrate! Wishing you a happy new year!

This upcoming week join the Center for Faith and Vocation for the first events in both the Butler Seminar on Religion and Global Affairs and A New View Film Series!

The Butler Seminar on Religion and Global Affairs, presents the 2022-2023 Seminar: Faith and Activism, produced by the Center for Faith and Vocation. Kickstarting the seminar, Youth Engagement in Interfaith Activism, featuring Tahil Sharma, will take place on Tuesday, September 20 at 7:00 PM and be the first event in the Faith and Activism series.

For more Information please see: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/youth-engagement-in-interfaith-activism-tickets-421362244817?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb
or visit https://butlerartscenter.org/performance/religion-seminar-series-youth-engagement-in-interfaith-activism/

The very next day, The Center for Faith and Vocation and Center for Interfaith Cooperation, with partnership from Jordan College of the Arts will hold the first film screening in the 2022-2023 A New View Film Series. Memories of a Penitent Heart, by filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo, is on Wednesday September 21, 2022 at the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall from 7:00-9:00 PM.

For more Information please see: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-new-view-film-series-memories-of-a-penitent-heart-tickets-421378062127?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb

Indy Pride is creating an Interfaith Celebration this year! If you are in Indy this weekend, all are welcome! For full details on how Indy Pride is celebrating the LGBTQ+ community this June, check out indypride.org.

Butler University invites our graduating students and their families to join us for the Multifaith Baccalaureate Service today! Celebrate our graduates with the themes of growth, acceptance, and hope as students and faculty reflect on this important moment from many perspectives. All are welcome, today at 3 pm in the Schott Center!

Sharing that today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah. Remembrance is our path to never repeat.

Fr. Baima was a long time supporter and advisor to the Center for Faith and Vocation. As a Butler alumni, he was dedicated to our campus and particularly the CFV mission. We are grateful for all the gifts he shared with us. We hope all those who called him friend are comforted in the days ahead.

Ramadan Mubarak! To all our Muslim friends and community members, and may the holy month start with peace!

Happy Holi! Join the South Asian Student Association for a color throw and later a celebration!

In the last stretch of the , we'd like to thank everyone that has contributed to the CFV's mission!

And it's not too late to make a final donation at https://butler.scalefunder.com/amb/cfv

The Center for Faith and Vocation is honored to be a part of the ! Celebrate Butler students by giving at https://butler.scalefunder.com/amb/cfv to support our upcoming initiatives!