ARLIER THIS YEAR I WAS BUSY WORKING with my fellow student government officers to set up the gym for our weekly Saturday night campus event. Unfolding and arranging hundreds of chairs can get tedious, so my friend Mike and I began to converse about the latest campuswide happenings.

 

Mike was in charge of organized spiritual events, so naturally our conversation centered on topics in that area. Both of us had a similar sense: Union College was more spiritually alive than either of us could remember. Mike commented that he thought it was time to challenge the campus and bring spiritual programming to a new level. That struck a chord with me.

 

It was one of those moments when words just kept coming, and before long I’d hatched a full-scale plan. Recently, I’d witnessed a scene »