Barbara Lundblad - Emmaus

Below is a video clip of Professor of Preaching Barbara Lundblad at a communion service on Thursday, April 10. At this service our acting dean James Hayes announced to the community that Rev. Lundblad had just been promoted from Associate to full Professor. We celebrate with Professor Lundblad and know that she is such a valued member of the Union community and to all those who study and practice the art of preaching. In this service she preaches about the post-Easter Emmaus text. She picks up the story where many of find ourselves--way past the dawn of resurrection. In her telling we hear how "the guest becomes the host." She describes what it takes to turn these followers of Jesus around, in the middle of the night, to walk all the way back to Jerusalem. What would it take to turn us around?

I love this sermon because she picks up and affirms the myriad ways resurrection continues to happen in our midst, particularly in James Chapel. Listen and give us a comment.

A Rock Communion: Isaac Everett/j. Snodgrass

On Thursday, March 27, Isaac Everett and his band performed 8 songs off his new album TRANSMISSION for our weekly communion. Isaac and lyricist j. Snodgrass are both Union students who translate an Episcopal Eucharist into contemporary language and sound.

Below are links to three songs from the service. The first "God Help Me" is based on the Kyrie, "The Stranger" is the Great Thanksgiving, while "Tomorrow and Today" is the communion hymn.

Listen to them at the links below:

• God Help Me
• The Stranger
• Tomorrow and Today

And for the lyrics written by j. snodgrass:

• Transmission Lyrics

Please post a response to Isaac and John's music.

Just Where Is the Mark?

The second semester has been a very hectic time for the worship office. We participated in the inauguration of Professor Paul Knitter and then a special week of services leading up to our annual Trailblazers service.

The week of Trailblazers chapels each used the text from Phil. 3:12-14 with the theme "Pressing toward the Mark." Here is a short clip from the chapel of Tuesday, February 26. Jen Brown begins with an excerpt from "Letters of Love and Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five," and Derrick preaches a sermon titled "Just Where is the Mark?"

Enjoy and send your comments.




video and editing by Patricia Santiago

Ritual Performance Class

The Ritual Performance and Criticsm class prepared the chapel for Tuesday, November 13 based on a reading from II Thessalonians 2. The text speaks to the community in Thessalonica expecting the immanent "day of the Lord" a warning not to be deceived or shaken by others. The chapel group used their learnings in our ritual class to imagine many new sounds and actions to embody the feelings of alarm and breaking trust, as well as the comfort that Paul promises in every good work and word.




Video by Patricia Santiago
Editing by Troy Messenger

Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Below is one of two posts of our final chapels services led by our Introduction to Preaching and Worship Class. This service took place on Wednesday, November 29 and is based on Isaiah 7. You hear in the call to worship and reflections the urgent plea for God to be with us, Emmanuel.




Video and editing by Patricia Santiago

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

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