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CHAPEL VIEW SPRING 2018 SUMMER 2018magazine magazine

CHAPEL ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR Charlie Berardesco, T ’80 VICE CHAIR C.B. Richardson III, T ’92 EMERITUS MEMBER William E. King, PhD, T ’61, G ’63, G ’70 ADVISORY BOARD Zoila Airall Robin Barefoot D. Michael Bennett, T ’77 John A. Bussian III, T ’76 M. Keith Daniel, T ’90, D ’05, D ’16 Ellen Davis Thomas Felgner, T ’94, B ’95 Cathy S. Gilliard, D ’97 Elizabeth Grantland, T ’20 Zach Heater, T ’17 Sara Elizabeth Hyre, T ’89 Grace Lee, T ’79 and Kenneth Lee, T ’74 Jeff Nelson, D ’13 Max Sirenko, T ’11 Valerie Sirenko, T ’11 Amanda Wright Smoot, WC ’63 Kathryn Lynn Watkins, T ’19

CHAPEL STAFF OFFICE OF THE DEAN Luke A. Powery, Dean of Duke Chapel Jack Adams, Assistant to the Dean STUDENT MINISTRY Christy Lohr Sapp, Associate Dean for Religious Life Adam Hollowell, Director of Student Ministry Joshua Lazard, C. Eric Lincoln Minister for Student Engagement MUSIC Rodney Wynkoop, Director of Chapel Music Robert Parkins, University Organist Christopher Jacobson, Chapel Organist Philip Cave, Associate Conductor of Chapel Music J. Samuel Hammond, University Carillonneur John Santoianni, Curator of Organs and Harpsichords Michael Lyle, Office Coordinator for Chapel Music Erica Thomas, Staff Assistant for Chapel Music COMMUNITY MINISTRY AND EVENTS Bruce Puckett, Director of Worship and Community Ministry Breana van Velzen, Community Ministry Outreach Coordinator Rachel White, Visitor Relations Specialist Blanche Williams, Wedding Director Mercedes Conely, Wedding Coordinator Ann Hall, Visitor Relations Assistant Wanda Cobb, Visitor Relations Assistant Antoinette L. Bethea, Visitor Relations Assistant Hunter McGuire, Visitor Relations Assistant Jane Kelly, Visitor Relations Assistant

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The Duke Amandla Chorus, Duke’s first African Chorus, served as the guest choir in the Chapel’s University Worship Service on Sunday, April 23, 2018.

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THE VALUE OF ‘AND’ | A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF DUKE CHAPEL The Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery [@LukeAPowery] “…and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb….” (Revelation 7:9)

his vision from Revelation is of God’s eternal home where there’s an embodiment of human diversity—“from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages”—there is the And. Yet, we often adore either/or: White or Black. Male or female. Rich or poor. Republican or Democrat. Faith or science. Them or us. Eastern Carolina barbeque or Western Carolina barbeque. Duke blue or the blue that shall not be named! The binary pits one thing against another with one being greater or better or more powerful. We even function with an either/or mentality when it comes to the kingdom of God: Evangelical or mainline. But it’s God’s kingdom, not ours. We may be an ‘or’ people but God is a conjunctive God with a conjunctive imagination. “From every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages.” With all the talk about building walls and the treatment of immigrants and refugees, it’s so critical to remember God so loved the world, not just the United States of America, because God has a conjunctive imagination. “Every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages.” And. This is not a vision of singularity but one of plurality. Not a ‘me’ perspective but a ‘we’ one. Even God, in God’s own being, is conjunctive—Father and Son and Holy Spirit, three persons in one. Both/and, not either/or. Conjunctive. God makes room for “every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages.” A choir is not a soloist; for a choir to be a choir we 2 CHAPEL VIEW magazine

need the ‘and.’ Sopranos and altos and tenors and basses. Both/and, not either/ or. When we worship at the altar of binary oppositions, even as Christians, we can write people out of the book of humanity, living our disjointed vision rather than the conjunctive hope of God. To function with a conjunction imagination and conjunctive theology is to openly embrace the other; it is anti-closure and anti-dominance. It is the embrace of the broad community of God and as the hymn declares, the “one great fellowship of love throughout the whole wide earth.” We get into trouble when we want to keep people out because they don’t look like us, act like us, or think like us. Just because they are not like us, we think they are not God’s. But John’s revelation of God’s future reminds us that there’s a great multitude that no one could count. We may prefer a monochrome past or present, but we have a polychromatic future—ready or not, we will be together in beautiful diversified unity. But, today, will we make room in our hearts and lives for God’s ‘and’— “from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages”? Will we build a deeper Christian understanding of

life in the conjunctive Jesus Christ who is both divine and human? Remember, it has been about conjunctions since the moment God created the heavens and the earth, evening and morning, waters and sky. Plants and trees, birds and sea creatures, male and female. Jews and Gentiles. Always conjunction. There are no built walls in the kingdom of God because those walls are torn down in Christ (Ephesians 2). In Christ, we come together. Immigrants and refugees and orphans and widows and Blacks and Whites and Latinos and Asians and Native Americans, every nation, all tribes, all peoples and languages. All are citizens in God’s city. We may want to build walls but God will eventually just tear them down and finally, we’ll see the consummation of the holy conjunction when we gather with the angels and elders and the four living creatures and the mosaic multitude from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, crying out to the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb with a conjunctive celebration of never ending praise, “Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever!” Thank God for the ‘and.’ Let it be done on earth as it is in heaven. The value of ‘and’ is key to the present and future mission of Duke Chapel as we strive to bridge faith and learning. In this issue, you’ll see the inspiring ways that this value has taken hold in this community. May we all continue to be an ‘and’ people for our ‘and’ God.

A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR, DUKE CHAPEL ADVISORY BOARD Charlie Berardesco, T ’80

t is a pleasure to once again write to you as Chair of the Duke Chapel Advisory Board. As I write this letter, I have recently returned from Duke for meetings of the Advisory Board. There was much to discuss and celebrate. The Advisory Board continues to grow—we added at this meeting the largest number of new members in memory, and they represent supporters of Duke Chapel from around the country. The Board has reached a size that we are now forming committees to continue the work of the Board between our twice yearly in-person meetings. We reviewed the Chapel development work—and we are seeing the clear success of the Chapel’s focused fundraising efforts and continuing momentum. In that regard, we began to review the Chapel’s space planning process—a reimagining of the basement area of the Chapel and what it will take to complete such an effort. The Board was honored by a visit from Duke’s new president, Dr. Vincent Price, who provided us with a fascinating view of Duke and the Chapel from his perspective as a relative “newcomer.” And we reviewed various programmatic efforts, including worship and community ministry, living/learning communities, and the Chapel’s social media efforts. We also met, as we always do, with a number of students, and were able to see firsthand the different ways the Chapel engages with Duke students, which is such a high priority for all of us who value the nature of the Chapel as a vital faith community at the heart of an international university. The Board also engaged in a facilitated discussion around “values,” and how those values should be

reflected in the Chapel’s next strategic or characteristics, must allow the plan. The term “values” sometimes Chapel to be part of such a dialogue, has a highly charged connotation. It or to be a convener of such dialogue, has sometimes been used to exclude without insisting upon the Christian people, to limit or dictate behaviors, perspective as the ultimate value, or to and, in some cases, oppress others. But, otherwise dictate our Christian values as a Board, we were able to discuss to others. Again, it does not change the values in positive terms. I thought of it Christian nature of the Chapel and its almost as “characteristics” we wanted ministries—but, it does help to frame the Chapel to project and reflect. They the work of the Chapel. were not meant to exclude or dictate, All of this will inform the overall but instead to celebrate and engage. strategic approach of Duke Chapel I think this kind of approach is parand the structure of its ministries and ticularly important as we think about programs. In some ways, it’s a more the increasing diversity of Duke and difficult task than in the “old days.” its faculty and students. For many of But, in other ways, it is even more us, our memories of relevant and exciting Duke are of a largely to be engaged on white, often male, many different “For the Chapel to be a and primarily Chrislevels—spiritual, truly living part of the tian student body programmatic, and faculty. When fabric at Duke, we need to artistic, missional, I returned to Duke as examples—in be able to be in dialogue after an absence of ways that reflect the with those who are not a number of years, Chapel’s ChristianI was immediately based values but do grounded in a Christian struck by the not dictate them to tradition or perspective.” those with whom we increased diversity of the student body are in a relationship. and the faculty. As I believe the Chapel I learned more about the different is well positioned to be an active part aspects of diversity at Duke through of such relationships. my work on the Advisory Board, the I look forward to writing to you different natures of that diversity, and in future editions of Chapel View the resulting impact on the role of the magazine, and hope that some of Chapel, became a focus for me. you will reach out to me with your The increasing diversity at Duke is questions, comments, and suggestions. important for the Chapel in that as we And, as always, thank you for your think about its values, those values support of Duke Chapel and its mission have to speak to a more diverse group and ministries—it is vital to the Chapel of students and faculty than before. and its work, and I know that everyone This does not mean we do not value associated with the Chapel is grateful and celebrate the Christian nature of for your support. Duke Chapel. But, for the Chapel to be a truly living part of the fabric at Duke, All the best, we need to be able to be in dialogue Charlie Berardesco with those who are not grounded in a Christian tradition or perspective. I believe that the Chapel’s values, Summer 2018 3

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@KatecBowler What a weekend. I was in the midst of brave, prophetic, Spirit-filled women. Nadia Bolz-Weber and Rachel Held Evans curated a space in which people felt celebrated and known. Grateful to have been a part of #WX2018.

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uke Chapel welcomed the “Why Christian” conference on March 16 and 17, 2018. This gathering brought together over 1,200 pastors, practitioners, dreamers, and doubters all wrestling with the question of “Why be Christian?” The event featured two days of courageous storytelling hosted by the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber and Rachel Held Evans. Roman Catholic, evangelical, Episcopalian, Lutheran, reformed, Presbyterian, Methodist, white, African American, Indian, Latina, gay, straight and transgender women and men gathered to give personal witness and share testimonies of hope.

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@wilsonhartgrove A faith gathering led entirely by women seems to me exactly what we need. So glad #WX2018 has come to Durham.

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@JeffChu One thing about #WX2018 that the tweets can never capture: the joy. There's such pain and sorrow, tenderness and love, wisdom and teaching in the testimonies. But in the room, you feel joy.

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Ethics and Activism Elizabeth Barahona, T ’18

FAITH & LEARNING PROFILE

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Elizabeth Barahona, T ’18, found a supportive and faithful community at Duke Chapel. Elizabeth says the first thing that drew her to the Chapel was the mentorship she received. As a freshman, Elizabeth took the Chapel’s student-led house course on the ethics of international mission work, which was advised by the Rev. Bruce Puckett, the Chapel’s director of worship and community ministry. “Bruce knows my family history, he knows the things I’ve feared since I was a freshman,” Elizabeth said. “He has seen me grow into the woman I am today.” Encouraged by Bruce and her own drive to grow as a community organizer, during her junior year, Elizabeth taught the house course she took as a freshman. The class included ten other Duke students, ranging from sophomores to seniors. Elizabeth said the class was structured around questions: What does it mean to be

privileged students at Duke? What does it mean to “work with” versus “work for”? While they didn’t necessarily arrive at all of the answers by the end of the semester-long class, Elizabeth said she does feel the students were equipped to carry a questioning posture into their future careers. “It has been good for us to take the lessons of ethics that we’ve learned in that class and move it into other areas of our lives.”

Elizabeth graduated this May with degrees in history, Latino studies, and human rights. She plans to continue strengthening her community organizing skills while pursuing a doctorate in history at Northwestern University. Watch Elizabeth’s faith-and-learning video profile, and hear other students’ stories, at chapel.duke.edu/community.

Hyphenated-Lives

he Penny Pilgram George Leadership Thosted Initiative for Women and Duke Chapel a spring-break mini-retreat

exploring the intersections of personal identity and artistic expression. The retreat, titled “Hyphenated-Lives,” addressed living and learning as women of faith in a faith-challenged world. Through small-group exercises and workshops students had the opportunity to connect with Why Christian speaker and Native American author Kaitlin Curtice and Muslim artist Haadia Khan.

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RACE A BRIDGE PANEL CONVERSATION

Then and Now

hirty-one years ago, black male Duke Students were being stopped and harassed on campus. To address the problem, then-Black Student Alliance President Maurice “Mo” Green, T ’88, and then-Associated Students of Duke University President Jan Nolting Carter, T ’88, gathered students, public safety officers, faculty, and administrators to talk through the issues and concerns. Almost thirty years later, in 2016, Jan reconnected with Mo to ask for his input on what she should preach in the weeks following Ferguson. This reconnection resulted in an ongoing dialogue of the issues they’d discussed as student leaders at Duke in 1988. Fast forward to this year, Mo and Jan shared their compelling story in a Bridge Panel conversation held during Duke Alumni Reunion weekend at Duke Chapel. They were joined by current Duke Student Government President and graduating senior Riyanka Ganguly. The conversation was moderated by Duke Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery. See highlights from this conversation in the quotes that follow.

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JAN NOLTING CARTER: What I learned here and as a student was to ask good questions … we have to keep asking the questions underneath the questions, rather than accept the assumptions…. It’s how we approach these questions—not with the assumption that we know what’s going on—but to continue to dig deeper, and mine deeper, to ask the questions about how things can look different.... Cultivating questioning and seeing things differently is a mark of a fantastic university— and needs to be continued in all issues—but especially the issue of race and how we can live together and understand one another. MO GREEN: It felt like, in many ways, Duke wanted us here, but did they really want us to be involved? and really be present? and bring our entire selves to the University? …You’ve invited us in, well act like you really want us in your house. Treat us like we should be here. Give us an opportunity to be our whole selves. RIYANKA GANGULY: My firm belief is that the only way for us to progress is for people to be friends with each other.

JAN NOLTING CARTER: Our goal was to get the conversation going, and to base it on relationship, and friendship, and mutual respect.... It was about knowing folks and being at the table. RIYANKA GANGULY: I am from Seattle, Washington, and I was really excited as a political science major to be in a purple state. I think that we could attract a lot more students who are intellectually curious about being in a state where you need to have these conversations—you need to meet in the middle because people don’t just think the way that you think. I believe that if we’re able to focus on that more as a university, then we can also have students recognize other students’ reality and we can also really talk about race more honestly, once they see the spectrum of what that can mean, not only on campus, but also off campus. MO GREEN: You’ve got to get to the point where you’re tired of having the conversation, because that’s when you’ll start to see some difference and can have some levels of improvement. Otherwise, what will happen is that the institution will continue to manifest itself. Duke University will have increasing numbers, as it has, of faculty and students of color, and Duke University will not be changed as an institution. JAN NOLTING CARTER: If you look at the university seal it says ‘Eruditio et Religio,’ and, to me, that really means that we need to be ethical people. We need to think about what our moral imperatives are, and I think our moral imperatives are to live, and enhance, and celebrate the best in all people. Watch the full conversation on the Duke Chapel YouTube channel at http://bit.ly/RaceThenAndNow. Summer 2018 7

TRANSFORMED VOICES:

Why We Sing Together

fter leading the Music can hold multiple Chapel Choir in meanings, which Rodney more than 900 says helps open the imagiSunday morning nation and engage a more worship services abstract realm: “Music and conducting more than can suggest meanings and 300 concerts in the Chapel, ideas with its shapes, and Dr. Rodney Wynkoop has recolors, and the relationship flected deeply on the value between one pitch and of choral music. As his retireanother…. In that way, I ment nears after twentythink music can be a portal Rodney joined the Duke to God.” nine years as the director Music Department in of Chapel Music, Rodney Over the years and 1984 and has been offers some insights into through his weekly practice the director of Chapel the many layers of meaning Music since 1989. of conducting the Chapel choral singing can carry. Choir, Rodney has experiAs a metaphorical language, Rodney enced the spiritual benefits of music believes music is one of the most first-hand. “For me, at least, taking part powerful mediums for describing an as a leader in a worship service is more infinite God. “To me, the reason that engaging than taking part as a congrewe have singing in the church, and the gation member—because you’re putting thing that it does to enhance our lives out more, you get more back,” he says. together, is that it can help bring peoAlthough he admits to being painple into the presence of God,” he says. stakingly slow at selecting the repertoire 8 CHAPEL VIEW magazine | Music & The Arts

for Sunday morning services, Rodney says his own exploration of the texts and understanding of their connections with the chosen music is critical. “I choose pieces that I think will elucidate and amplify the given text, and that is just a richer way of looking at scripture,” he says. Rather than simply reading scripture and asking, “How does it affect me?” or, “What do I understand of this?”, Rodney says the question he most often asks himself is, “What might this mean to somebody else?” Rodney feels it’s important that the choirs he conducts understand these connections as well. Even when conducting choirs outside of the Chapel, he is careful to explain the meanings of the text to the composer or within the traditional interpretations of the church. “Even if you don’t believe this,” Rodney will instruct his choirs, “you have to sing as though you do.”

Being in an interdenominational worshipping community, Rodney feels that music is one way the Chapel lives out its value of ecumenism. “The Chapel brings together people of so many different faith backgrounds,” he says. “Although they might be separated by the teachings of their specific church, denomination, or faith, music can be more general and interconnected.” Rodney sees singing corporately as a way to build community and commonality. “The neat thing about singing is that it involves something inside of us. Every time that you sing, you’re giving of yourself and trying to connect it with other people, creating something common.” Even through dissonant sounds, music brings people together. “The goal is not necessarily to be unified,” Rodney says, “but to have this joint voice that creates something other, something new that wasn’t there before.” Bringing people together in a meaningful and effective way requires more than just teaching singing skills.

“The goal is not necessarily to be unified, but to have this joint voice that creates something other, something new that wasn’t there before.”

“I’m trying, among other things, to teach general life and human skills,” Rodney says, skills such as, “team work, self-sacrifice, a sense of compromise, and a sense of how being interdependent and oriented towards one common goal can produce amazing joint experiences.”

The experience of creating something together is transformative for his choir members, and watching that transformation is one of many things that has kept Rodney motivated through the years. “I often tell people that the look on new singers’ faces at the end of their first Messiah is just amazing,” he says. “What I’m trying to do is to cause people to open up and look within themselves.” “They’ve been encouraged to trust one another enough to give of themselves with emotion and passion,” he says. “Because of that shared experience, they are bonded to one another.” Rodney believes that singing together provides something distinct from much of the rest of modern life. “One of the sad things about contemporary life is how much of it has become kind of ‘surface-y,’” he says, “but I think that one of the reasons that this choir, and other choirs, presumably, come together so eagerly is just to try to find something in life that is more enduring, something more eternal—and to be a part of it.”

Rodney conducts his final concert as Director of Chapel Music on April 22, 2018.

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Exploring Faith Faith in Color: A Photographic Exploration of Race, Religion, and America in Tribute to C. Eric Lincoln Displayed April 4 through May 1, 2018

his year’s C. Eric Lincoln Theology and Arts Fellow, Evan Nicole Bell, explored the deep roots of religious influence in black communities through a documentary photography project. In creating the exhibition, Bell worked with the Rev. Joshua Lazard, the Chapel’s C. Eric Lincoln Minister for Student Engagement to pair photographs with quotes from Dr. Lincoln, a professor of religion and culture at Duke from 1976 to 1993. Lincoln was a scholar of black church and religious studies, as well as a Methodist minister who also wrote novels and poems. “My faith motivates me to use my art to advocate for others, and I feel like C. Eric Lincoln was the same way,” Bell said. “Lincoln understood the intersections of art, faith, and activism, and that’s definitely what I hope to do through this exhibit, too.”

GRACE CAI, T ’19

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Through The Arts Beauty Given by Grace: The Biblical Prints of Sadao Watanabe Displayed January 9 through February 21, 2018

he Chapel partnered with Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA) to host a series of fifty stencil prints on biblical themes by Japan’s foremost Christian artist Sadao Watanabe (1913-1996). On loan from the Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) organization, the exhibition featured original momogiami and washi prints from the collections of Sandra Bowden and John A. Kohan. Interested in communicating his Christian beliefs to other Japanese, Watanabe translated biblical narratives into Japanese settings using the traditional Japanese folk art of katazome stencil dying.

“I would most like to see [my prints] hanging where people ordinarily gather, because Jesus brought the Gospel for the people.” —Sadao Watanabe (1913-1996)

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A sermon preached in Duke University Chapel on April 15, 2018, by the Rev. Dr. William Turner Jr.

Beloved In Unlovely Chaos: A Creative Contradiction

1 John 3:1-2 Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be.... The Rev. Dr. William Turner Jr. has spent over half a century on Duke’s campus; first as an undergraduate, then as a divinity student. This was followed by service as an administrative staff member and early leader of the black studies program, a Ph.D. student, and finally as a Divinity School professor where he recently retired as the James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of the Practice of Preaching. In April of 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Turner was a Duke sophomore at this time and among a handful of African American students at Duke, which accepted its first black undergraduates in 1963. Turner remembers well the campus’ response to King’s assassination; students camped for days in front of Duke Chapel seeking better treatment for African Americans at Duke in what became known as the “Silent Vigil.” The sermon that follows was preached by Turner in the Chapel during the Class of 1968 reunion weekend on April 15, 2018, fifty years after Martin Luther King’s assassination.

What are the consequences of knowing yourself as beloved and believing that everyone is beloved just like you? Then set that over against the reality of knowing that you are beloved and seeing those around you treated like they are not beloved. Even more, to see them abused, treated like they are despised, objects, tools for the convenience of others. What we knew about being beloved was set alongside what we saw, and it produced great contradiction and tension fifty years ago. Those of us who came from our discrete set of privileges were forced to acknowledge what they were. It blew my mind to find out that the men were furnished with maid service in the dormitories. From the house I left, I was my own maid service. The privilege I enjoyed was that I knew what it meant to be the apple of my mother’s and father’s eye—the darling of my community, school, and church. Great dissonance was precipitated from natal knowledge of what it meant to be beloved and then to be treated as unloved, unwelcomed. Even worse was to see people like the ones I cherished—and who cherished me— treated like they were objects for someone else’s desire. Housekeepers called by their first names. People whom we loved receiving pay below minimum wage, knowing the school patronized institutions that still practiced racial segregation, going to classes where your experience was

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disregarded totally, while knowing from your experiences of life the deep treasure troves within scholarship that was not recognized as part of the canon of learning. Hearing reports of the annihilation and dismemberment of bodies in other parts of the world by your nation, having friends and schoolmates being drafted and shipped to fields of combat, killing people they did not know for reasons they did not know, and the people killed did not know. Hearing songs being sung like: “Greetings, this is Uncle Sam, I want to take you to a far-off land: I need you.” And so, it was that the time came where the meaning and experience of being beloved clashed with behaviors and performances that bespoke everything but love. What could we do? We could keep our eyes fixed on the coming train, concerning which the Impressions sang. They said: “you didn’t need no baggage, you just get on board. All you need was faith to hear the diesels hummin’.” Peter, Paul, and Mary said: “If I had a hammer I’d hammer in the morning, the evening.... I’d hammer out love between my brothers and sisters.” But I do have a hammer: it’s the hammer of justice, the bell of freedom, and song of love between my brothers and sisters. We used our hammers to drive in the pegs that erected tents in front of the Chapel. In our own way we hammered out justice for our space and place in time. When we look back over fifty years that have compressed like an accordion, not only can we see what it meant to know that everyone around us was beloved as we were beloved, we can see in retrospect that it did not—yea, it could not—appear in that moment what we would become. To the person, no doubt, we can confess that we never have been turned loose by the love we had for ourselves and others in that day, but we can see now how that same love has unfolded in lives that have been directed along a course of uplift and service. By the grace of God, it is not over, but we can see how bereft our lives would be without the contradictions of that moment in which we knew what

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it meant to be beloved, while looking upon those treated as if they were not beloved. O that many others might experience such a pregnant, life-giving, future focusing, creative contradiction that is knowing one’s self and others as beloved while seeing an arrangement of life which belies that truth. My primary focus this morning is upon the epistle lesson, mainly because of the way it compels us to measure our love by concrete actions. But also because of the way language is supplied to tether us to our task for today. For this writer, love is material, bound with matter and what really matters. He argues that the love of God is embodied and marked by compassion that cannot be withheld. He opposes strongly those who would say that Jesus did not come in the flesh, which leads him to the further argument that we cannot love with words only, but our love must be with deeds. He is bold to say that we cannot love God and hate a sister or brother. He is bold to say that if we attempt such contradictions we are liars.

The Authorized and Revised Versions May I say it? It’s a little earthy, but uses the term “beloved” as a primary he makes it real. Les McCann said mark of identity. What a comfort it is when you are trying to make it real, the to know that we are beloved by God! question is compared to What. This Thank you, Martin, for inserting that epistle writer compares the depth and language into our vocabulary to talk power of love to actions of the bowel about the community for which we are and the womb. It is action that forces to be striving. Thanks to all who keep out, that brings forth what must be that language alive. Thank you, Joyce pushed in a moment of crisis and in a and Nelson, for never letting us forget manner that is crucial to life itself. that all the movements we make should Some other translations tend to be toward the Beloved Community. exchange that earthy word; but what he Never is there to be a disconnect is talking about is the work of expelling between our identity as beloved, the what must be brought forth upon pain language we use to profess love, and of death. In other words, he is talking the way we treat the about a love you cannot brother or sister. withhold even if you try. “Never is there to be But further, What the world needs a disconnect between language of love now is love of the sort and being beloved is cannot be turned our identity as beloved, that interstitched with the on and off, and that image of compassion. cannot be reduced to the language we use He used a term that mere words. to profess love, and is connected with Beloved, now are powerful inner motions the way we treat the we the children of of the body that control God—not in a more brother or sister.” us rather than us convenient moment, controlling them. not on another day, not Summer 2018 13

ism came to a close and “Beloved, now are inciting the violence he Soviet expansion rose. exposed and received. we the children of Some who now receive It was as if we joined in consensus vilification the celebration of his God—not in a more were looked up to for beautification when convenient moment, the way they defended his classmate, Samuel their people against not on another day, not DuBois Cook, returned powers that trampled from his memorial serwhen or because it is in vice to address us as we them into the ground in the name of freedom sat attentively in front vogue. But now!” and democracy. of our tents. That was a Martin Luther King truly exalted moment. Jr. whose memory is now sanitized in a However, on the periphery of the way that separates him from other milicampus and all around the country, we tant freedom fighters, spoke with trumsaw in graphic relief the descent into pet-sounding clarity against the evils of which we all could plunge if the oracles racism, colonialism, economic injustice flowing from the lips of this prophet of and exploitation, grinding poverty, and peace could be hushed and the torrents militarism, that dehumanized many and of evil and oppression could be turned etched away the moral fiber of us all. loose without a seawall of restraint. We He was hailed by some for the strategic sat as those who knew we were beloved, way in which he articulated his version conflicted from within by the unlovely of love and his insightful opposition to chaos that punctuated our days. We initiating violence. He well understood did what we could do in the “Now” of the violence inside the systems of op1968 with scarcely a clue as to how we pression, but was accused by some of were being molded in those moments

1968 SILENT VIGIL, DUKE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

when or because it is in vogue. But now! How shall I say it? We were overtaken by an Eternal Now! I want us to hold together what it means to be beloved, and what it means to be the children of God now. A present moment, as Benjamin Mays would say, with eternity wrapped up in it. What does it mean fully to inhabit “Now”? Yes, there is history that has brought us to every Now; there is a future flowing out of every Now; but it is a moment to inhabit. “Now” was April 1968, accented by the events of our day and time. The shadow of World War II and the Korean Conflict, hovered close in our memories. The Cold War could turn hot and nuclear at any moment, and the Vietnam War was a daily and death-sentencing reality. The murder of heroes was all around us. Indeed, we were conflicted in the matter of who should be heroes. Liberation struggles were being waged all over the globe, as the end of Western European colonial-

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of existential angst, creative conflict, and surging currents of conscience, at the very crossroads of our lives. Ah, it was difficult living in the tensions and pressures of being beloved by those who had nurtured and taught us, while being disoriented by the lies and feeble explanations that were given to facilitate our adjustment. Brilliant parents, pastors, and teachers stuttered to make sense of the horizons that were clashing, the noxious ideologies that thrust us into the chaos swirling around us, ever pressing its way into our present reality. The conflict was that we saw a future that could be, wherein all were beloved as we were. Scarcely could we do better for finding words to express the dilemma than those given in the Psalm for today. Verse 1, “Answer me when I call, O God, defender of my cause; you set me free when I am hard-pressed; have mercy on me and hear my prayer.” Verse 6, “Many are saying, Oh, that we might see better times! Lift up the light of your countenance upon us, O Lord.” There is no way we could look down the corridor of time fifty years, to see how those days would mark the university or the path our lives would take. I dare say that for the whole lot of us, we never were quite the same. Scarcely could we see the speed at which time was passing. Indeed, one can only see the speed of time when it is gone. But also, scarcely could we see how we were being carried by a current that propels the story of God’s justice, mercy, liberty, and faith—the weighty matters, if you will. I would call this the course that is cut by the Spirit of God for those who are the beloved of God, and who cannot bring themselves to make peace with the unlovely chaos created by history when plotted and unleashed by those who see power and domination as vindication of their ordained right. It’s like a vector inside the river that cuts a pathway seen only from above, from a map, in retrospect. Differently from a highway, the points that dot the way are not known in advance. The current in the river takes precedence. We could not see clearly the protesting tradition at Duke into which we stepped; all we could see was the Now.

But we were stepping into a stream, forever in a day.” We were idealistic, they a river, if you please, that was flowing said. Aren’t you glad we didn’t have all to carve out a river bed inside Duke’s the cautions we do today. history. I know the official history talks But alas, I say, keep loving like those about the vision of Kilgo, his successors, who are around you are beloved like you ideas of world-class faculty, Eruditio et are beloved. Strengthen the good works Religio, but there is more to it than that. your hands have found to do. Keep living There also is the path cut by the current and longing for the ways and the days of the Spirit, bringing us into the fuller when all know what it is to be beloved. reality that is our lot. When creative contradictions tap into I am not saying this the positive energies is the only way to talk “Scarcely could we see of the Spirit, we are about the vigil or the sustained to stay on a how we were being university. But, from course that finally we the other side, if one cannot chart or choose. carried by a current ascribes it all to serenThere was a song that propels the story dipity or accident, that we used to sing in the doesn’t make sense. At of God’s justice, mercy, church that birthed me. least, that is not a sufZora Neal Hurston called liberty, and faith....” ficient account for me. it the Sanctified Church. I must talk about the It was simple but powerSpirit of God cutting a path that we could ful, and went something like this: not chart. “I believe I’ll run on ... see what the end In retrospect we can give thanks for goin’ be ... A slave mother said even bethe way in which those challenging, fore that ... Hold on a little while longer ... turbulent, tempestuous, energy-filled Pray on ... fight on ... Martin said ... walk times brought forth from us what we together children ... don’t get weary ...” were to become. It did not appear in the There is contradiction between being moments where we sat under tents to beloved in unlovely chaos that can be rap and read, to sing, to consider the life creative and invigorating for a lifetime. we would choose. We were young. Isn’t that what the 5th Dimension said: “those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end, we’d sing and dance Summer 2018 15

Breaking Bread:

Recently graduated Duke alumni living in the Chapel PathWays House eat a community meal with neighbors in Durham’s West End who started the Grow Your Own initiative, a program which encourages each neighbor to grow some of their own food. Learn more about the PathWays Fellows program at chapel.duke.edu/PathWaysFellowship

A Personal Approach to Meeting the Needs of Neighbors

hen Anne Red Wright’s husband, Kenneth E. Wright, died in July of 2016, she grieved and celebrated his life with the Duke Chapel community. “The Congregation was ‘loaves and fishes’ during the time Ken was ill,” Anne says about the support she received. Ken’s funeral was held in the Chapel with a sermon by the Rev. Bruce Puckett, the Chapel’s director of worship and community ministry. In lieu of

flowers, Anne invited people to donate money to the Chapel. When considering how that money could be used, Anne reflected on both Ken’s life and on their joint Christian faith. “I think ‘church’ is how we live out our beliefs here on earth,” Anne says. “Outreach is what we’re called to do in the church—to love our neighbors as ourselves.” She also noted Ken’s deep ties to the people of Durham from his thirty-plus years leading the City of

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Durham’s Department of Engineering. In consultation with Bruce, Anne set up the Red Wright Fund for Community Ministry that is used to give financial assistance in response to specific requests from people in need, as well as to support programs that proactively address issues of poverty and literacy. Since creating the fund, Anne has been adding to it every year with substantial generosity. “It just seemed very fitting that the money should go to individual needs,” Anne says. “I would love for it to be funded so that needs can be met for years to come. I would hope other people would be encouraged to support the fund also through the Chapel’s annual giving campaign.”

Why We Eat Together Rev. Bruce Puckett, Director of Worship and Community Ministry

GRACE CAI, T ‘19

ach Sunday, those who worship at the Chapel are offered the great grace of gathering around the banquet table of Jesus. Whether in the main sanctuary or in Memorial Chapel, all who come for worship have the opportunity to share in the feast of thanksgiving—the Eucharist. We meet at the table to remember Jesus’ death for us, to receive grace anew, and to encounter Jesus in the ordinary stuff of life: bread and wine. In this meal, by the Holy Spirit, the Father remembers us and makes us one with Christ and with the saints of the past, present, and future. What we consume at the table consumes us, so we become what we eat and are joined into the communion of the Triune God. For the Chapel, communing with God and God’s people is not limited to Sunday morning or the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. Meals with students, community members, alumni, and friends become the

“I think ‘church’ is how we live out our beliefs here on earth. Outreach is what we’re called to do in the church—to love our neighbors as ourselves.” Money from the fund has gone to Chapel partner organizations such as World Relief, Catholic Charities, and Community Empowerment Fund, to address needs including overdue heat or light bills. In one case, the Chapel was able to work through a partner organization to rent a truck for a person

regular occasion for the Spirit to make sharing food a time for encountering the Lord. One example of communion extending into the week is a monthly gathering at the PathWays House, where the PathWays Fellows dine with community members from around Durham to share stories about God’s work in Durham and in their lives. These community dinners provide opportunities for the fellows to see and hear how the Spirit is moving through the lives of people who love and serve Durham. Whether

the meal brings together neighbors from the West End or from the Chapel’s nonprofit partners or from the Chapel’s worshipping community, feasting on the good things of God is a regular occurrence. Feasting at the Lord’s Supper and feasting at the PathWays House (or wherever we eat) go hand-in-hand in our journey with God. The meal in worship helps us make sense of, and reimagine, the meals we have during the week, seeing them as opportunities for us to be taken into the life of God. The meals we have during the week help us to “discern the body” (1 Corinthians 11:29) and remember that for the sake of our communities and the world we are being invited into communion with God through the Lord’s table. So as we eat, whether it’s in our homes or churches or community houses, may all of our eating become a communion with God and the people God loves.

who was moving from transitional housing to a permanent home. “It gives us a way to support our partners in ways we weren’t able to before,” Bruce says. “There is real discernment that goes into determining what need is most important. Our partners’ experience and relationships allow them to make the decisions and call on us for the funds to meet the needs they determine are most pressing.” Anne’s ties to the Chapel have deepened over the years. Her first connection was when she was a graduate student in education at Duke in the 70s and was baptized at the Chapel by then-Minister to the University Robert Young. She and Ken later reconnected with the Chapel

when the Rev. Dr. Sam Wells was dean, and they became members of the Congregation at Duke Chapel. A retired public school teacher, Anne now attends Chapel services and teaches yoga part-time at the Duke Faculty Club. It was through the Chapel, Anne says, that she came to believe that Christian giving is meant to be done not so much “for” people in need but “with” them. “You go out and ask people what they need and do it with them,” she says. “We’re all God’s creatures,” she says. “Who could be better to care for than our neighbors? Didn’t Jesus teach that this was the second great commandment?” Summer 2018 17

CHAPEL NEWS his summer Chapel Dean Luke Powery is leading a group of students in a summer research project on preaching in Duke Chapel during the Civil Rights era. The team will explore sermons in the Duke University Libraries’ Duke Chapel Recordings digital collection, as well as secondary sources. Where possible the students will interview ministers and others. The project is part of the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University’s Story+ program.

The Duke Evensong Singers will be completing residencies at Westminster Abbey and Gloucester Cathedral this summer. Under the direction of Chapel Organist Christopher Jacobson, FRCO, the choir will sing Choral Evensong services in these historic cathedrals each day while abroad. The popularity of the traditional Evensong service has seen a tremendous resurgence throughout the United Kingdom in recent years. “Morning and Evening Prayer have been prayed and sung in these great cathedrals every day since the 17th century,” Jacobson said. “Singing these services ‘in residence’ provides a rare opportunity to explore the intersection of faith, music, and learning as we join this unbroken lineage of daily prayer and praise to God.”

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Summer Research Group

PEACE LEE, D ’20

SAMUEL ZHU, T ‘19

JOSHUA LAZARD, C. ERIC LINCOLN MINISTER FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

The Ordination of Rev. Dr. Christy Lohr Sapp

Duke Chapel’s associate dean for Religious Life, the Rev. Dr. Christy Lohr Sapp, was ordained by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in a ceremony in the Chapel on Sunday, April 15. It was the result of a multi year journey of taking classes and gaining firsthand experience as a faith leader. Bishop Tim Smith of the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America presided at the worship service. At the end of the ceremony, faith leaders from Duke’s Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist communities joined together to give her a blessing.

Interim Director of Chapel Choir Following Dr. Rodney Wynkoop’s retirement as the director of Chapel Music, Dr. Philip Cave will serve as interim director of Chapel Choir for the 2018–19 Academic Year, effective July 1, 2018. In addition to serving as conductor for the Duke Chapel Choir, leading Sunday morning worship services, the 2018 Messiah, and the 2019 Spring Oratorio choral concerts, Dr. Cave will continue leading the Duke Vespers Ensemble. The nationwide search for the director of Chapel Music is expected to last one year. Follow our progress by enrolling for e-updates at chapel.duke.edu/email.

Integrative Education Course Tours Jerusalem and Bethlehem

ndergraduate students enrolled in “Culture Wars: Israeli & Palestinian Resistance & Reconciliation through Art & Culture,” a course taught by the Rev. Dr. Christy Lohr Sapp, associate dean for Religious Life, took a service-learning tour through Jerusalem and Bethlehem in early May. The class was in Jerusalem for several important events: Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim) celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem on May 13, the move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem on May 14, and Nakba Day—the day that Palestinians remember fleeing their homes during the 1948 war that led to the creation of the state of Israel. In light of these events, one student reflected: “Knowing what I learned in Bethlehem, I was torn about how to feel on Yom Yerushalayim. I wanted to celebrate Israel and sing in the streets of Jerusalem, though I knew the Israeli government is far from perfect.... At the end of the day, all anyone wants is to live peacefully and happily with their family and friends, no matter who they are or where they come from. People face many challenges every day that usually are only due to the situations— political, social, emotional—they happen to be in the midst of.... It is important that we see individuals with hopes, dreams, and goals on all sides of a conflict, and remember why they fight. They fight just as anyone in their position would fight—to survive and live happily and freely in the land they consider home.”

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DYNAMIC DIALOGUE Dear Friends,

ast year, when I walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain, I met people from all over the world and often, when responding to travelers’ questions —Where are you from? What do you do when you are not walking?—I would mention where I work. The response was always the same: I love Duke Chapel. I am grateful for the opportunity to be part of this community. The Chapel welcomes the comfortable and the difficult, the young and the not-so-young, students and scholars, faith leaders and people of no faith into a vibrant and dynamic dialogue rooted in our commitment to education and compassion. When we selected Living Our Values as the theme for this edition of Chapel View magazine, we knew it would offer a rich source for reflection on the

Chapel’s goal to bridge “The Chapel welcomes or as tourists who come faith and learning on to look up at the beauty the comfortable and the campus and in the of this place and find a the difficult, the young community. moment of sanctuary As we reviewed in the midst of their and the not-so-young, the content and the busy lives. The Chapel context of each item in students and scholars, is, in all its grandeur, a this edition, we were faith leaders and people significant resource to reminded of the many so many people, here of no faith into a vibrant in Durham, across the ways in which the Chapel serves as a con- and dynamic dialogue....” country, and around the vener—holding space world. for a symphony of voices, bringing I also hope that you will join us people together to reflect, to worship, in this important work and convene to listen, to learn, and to act in the conversations in your home and in your world with grace and faithfulness. places of work as you read these pages. As you read this edition, I hope you I hope you will find a little inspiration to will reflect on what the Chapel means continue to live your values with us. to you. Each of us holds a special love for the Chapel—whether that is as memWith our many thanks for your support, bers of the Sunday worshipping community, as alumni who return every few Amanda M. Hughes years to remember their time at Duke, Director of Development and Strategy

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The Enduring Challenge of a Moral Economy People of many ages and backgrounds packed into Duke University Chapel on April 19 for a “Bridge Panel” conversation with United States Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, moderated by Dean Luke Powery. The conversation “The Enduring Challenge of a Moral Economy: 50 Years After Dr. King Challenged Racism, Poverty, and Militarism” centered on the beliefs and actions of Dr. King and how people today can move forward in the same spirit. The conversation, streamed live to the Chapel’s Facebook page and YouTube channel, received over 142,000 views. The Chapel’s “Bridge Panel” public conversation series seeks to connect people from disparate walks of life in order to discover shared pathways toward the beloved community of God. Listen to past conversations on the Chapel’s audio podcast, “Duke Chapel - Conversations” on iTunes.

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