Chapel Newsletter Editorials, Reflections, and Resources

The tyranny of winter, its cold and white covered landscapes are fading from memory. Daylight is winning. The sun’s rays are awakening life’s glory, making us say like the poet…

The first human misstep in the Garden of Eden was environmental overreach. God told the humans they could eat from any number of fine-looking trees bearing delicious fruit. Except one.…

Dear friends, I learned only recently about the Chinese Moon Festival (thanks to our campus multi-faith conversations, at which we gather to share about our respective traditions.) For those of…

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither…

For so many reasons, this has been a tough year for us all–and even harder for some of us, both here on campus and beyond. But in this last weekly…

“Now I shall know unrest again, /And all my heart that was so still/Will beat in me like troubled tides/And urge me to its will”     -Jessie Belle Rittenhouse In 2002,…

These continue to be complicated times, don’t they?  (Of course, as I type this I wonder if things are ever uncomplicated, but….)  We read and hear regularly about violence around…

Our country continues to struggle with a basic human dilemma of being a community. Where are the borders? Who is in, or who can come in, and why? Strangely, at…

Ramadan is divided into three ten-day ashras or stages, and right now, in the middle of Ramadan, we’re in the ashra of forgiveness. This forgiveness is specifically between God and…

On Tuesday evening, just a few hours after the verdict in the Chauvin trial, I was in a gathering where Carolyn asked something like, “If you were at the Hennepin…