Each Open House includes an alumni teaching and a Q&A period about ChIME's Interfaith Ministry and CPE programs. Staff, current students, and alumni will be on-hand to answer questions and share their experiences.

Will this be the year that you nourish your spiritual life with attention, care, and community?

The application period for the 2026-27 academic year opens January 1, 2026.

Lindy Gifford was ordained an interfaith minister by ChIME in 2015. Before that she worked as a graphic designer and photographer, before that she worked as an archeologist, and before that she was a shy, wild child, raised by right-thinking Unitarian Universalists. Since ordination, she has worked as a creative coach and publishing consultant helping people tell their stories, while continuing her own spiritual education, learning from living teachers of various traditions and none, as well as from both spiritual and physical ancestors.