Multifaith Chaplaincy

Spiritual and pastoral care for the University community

Whoever you are, you belong here

The Multifaith Chaplaincy offers spiritual and pastoral care for the University community. We offer a range of events, including regular worship and religious services and social events. We are open to students and staff from any background, of any identity, and any faith or none.

Student, staff, or visitor
Atheist, religious, or something in between
Undergraduate or postgraduate
K-pop fan, classical musician, or metalhead
British, international, or a refugee
LGBTQ+, straight, asexual, or if you don’t know what this means
Studying education, nursing, humanities or sciences
Healthy or living with mental or physical illness
Right-wing, left-wing or not interested.

Unforgiving? The paradox of forgiveness after trauma

The annual Multifaith Chaplaincy Lecture, presented by Dr Karen O'Donnell.

12 November 2025, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

In her work, Dr Karen O’Donnell compassionately explores how trauma can shape a radical rethinking of theology, particularly in relation to forgiveness and unforgiveness. She sits alongside trauma survivors to ask, ‘Where is God to be found?’

Dr Karen O'Donnell is the Academic Dean at Westcott House and Associate Lecturer in the Divinity Faculty, Cambridge University. She has researched and written extensively in the area of trauma theology including The Dark Womb: Reconceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss (SCM Press, 2022) and Survival: Radical Spiritual Practices for Trauma Survivors (SCM Press, 2024)