Hello MIT! My name is Adam Reynolds and I’m one of the MIT chaplains. The fun part of writing stuff that no one will read is that you don’t have to censor yourself all that much. I’m not really the blogging type (I can’t even manage to read blogs), but this seems like a good venue for me to espouse my spiritual musings and my hopes for MIT.

I’m new as a chaplain, but I’ve been very connected to the MIT community since first coming here as an undergrad in 1997. And I’ve been pretty involved in spiritual life here for nearly the past decade.

First a word about the title of this blog. We’re all familiar with MIT’s motto: Mens et Manus, Latin for “Mind and Hand.” Well, in what is surely brash irreverence, I am advocating that we augment the motto with “…et Spiritus!” to emphasize the importance of the spiritual dimension in life in addition to the physical and mental. Continue reading →