Religious Life: Welcome

Christian | Jewish | Muslim | Other

AS A UNITED METHODIST affiliated university, faith has a long tradition of being an important aspect of campus life. While the days of 13 required chapel services per week are long gone, faith and ministry still live and breathe within the woodwork of OWU. You’ll never be coerced into faith, but you’ll always be invited to explore it, to go deeper into it, to meet people who are also discovering the movement of God in their lives and the call of God on their lives.

As the Chaplain’s Office, we are “Christian based, but interfaith laced.” This mantra means that we’re upfront about the fact that most of us, and many of our programs, are rooted in the broad scope of the Christian tradition. However, it also means that we don’t view ministry as exclusively Christian. We honor and respect our Jewish and Muslim sisters and brothers and seek to be in conversation with them even as we provide space and resources for their own particular traditions. Depending on the make-up of the student body at any given time, Buddhist, Hindu, earth-based, and indigenous spiritualities have also found support from our office.

In essence, we’re here to help facilitate your faith journey, to support you, to help you go deeper, and to challenge you to look beyond your self.