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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Remembering Tim Fauvell

The Rev. Tim Fauvell, lecturer in Field Education and supervisor of Union students in CPE, died suddenly and unexpectedly on Wednesday, November 7. We remembered him at a funeral today in the Riverside Church with stories and the music that was such a part of his life. We post here a short clip of a service in which he preached from February 2005.

Feel free to post remembrances in the comment section.




Video by Bill Winer
Editing by Haddon Givens Kime

Thursday, November 8, 2007

I am who I say I am...



On Wednesday, October 24, members of the Black Caucus led a chapel service based on Exodus 3:13-14 where God reveals Godself as "I am who I say I am." Ben Sanders delivers a powerful message claiming "I Am" as a model for our living before God and others. Derrick McQueen and Kim Harris sing, "Lord, How Come We Here?"

Listen and post a comment.

Video by Patricia Santiago
Editing by Kyle Carnes

The dead have a pact with the living...

Special guests for our service on All Hallow's Eve were Professors Siobhan Garrigan (Union STM ’91) and Patrick Evans (Union artist-in-residence 2001-02) who serve as Dean of Chapel and Director of Chapel Music, respectively, for the daily ecumenical worship program in Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School. Siobhan is Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies at YDS and the Institute of Sacred Music, and Patrick is Associate Professor in the Practice of Sacred Music at YDS/ISM.



Our service for All Hallow's Eve was the first of three that celebrated are ancestors and loved ones who have died. On Thursday, November 1, at noon we had our annual All Saints and All Souls communion service. And that evening the Latina/o Caucus presented their Day of the Dead service and dinner.

As I post this one week later on Thursday, November 8, we have just experienced the sudden death of a dear friend who was an alumnus, one of our field education lecturers, and a CPE supervisor.

We are reminded how important these services are as a chance for the community to be present to one another in the times of our greatest loss and across all time as we gather at one table as the communion of all saints.

Video and editing by Patricia Santiago