Chapel View Magazine | Fall 2015

CHAPEL VIEW Fall 2015

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ADVISORY BOARD PRESIDENT Charlie Berardesco T ’80 VICE PRESIDENT C.B. Richardson T ’92 PAST PRESIDENT Gina Harrison ADVISORY BOARD Zoila Airall, PhD Nancy L. Jirtle, PhD Anna R. Jones Amanda Wright Smoot WC ’63 T. Walker Robinson, MD, T ’00, G ’01, M ’09 EMERITUS MEMBER William E. King, PhD, T ’61, G ’63, G ’70

CHAPEL STAFF DEAN OF DUKE CHAPEL Luke A. Powery, Associate Professor of Homiletics STUDENT MINISTRY Christy Lohr Sapp, Associate Dean for Religious Life Adam Hollowell, Director of Student Ministry Bruce Puckett, Director of Community Ministry Joshua Lazard, C. Eric Lincoln Minister for Student Engagement Gerly Ace, Staff Specialist for Student Ministry MUSIC Rodney Wynkoop, Director of Chapel Music Robert Parkins, University Organist Christopher Jacobson, Chapel Organist Brian Schmidt, Assistant Conductor & Administrative Coordinator of Chapel Music J. Samuel Hammond, University Carillonneur John Santoianni, Curator of Organs & Harpsichords Michael Lyle, Staff Assistant to Chapel Music WORSHIP & EVENTS Sara Blaine Clark, Event & Wedding Coordinator Blanche Williams, Wedding Director Jack Adams, Interim Worship Coordinator COMMUNICATIONS Adrienne Koch, Communications Specialist James Todd, Multimedia Manager DEVELOPMENT Ava West, Staff Assistant for Development ADMINISTRATION Joni Harris, Assistant to the Dean Lisa Moore, Accounting Specialist & Office Coordinator UNIVERSITY HOUSEKEEPING Oscar Dantzler, Chapel Services

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Duke Schools Abbreviation Key T (Trinity College of Arts & Sciences) D (Divinity School) G (Graduate School) E (Pratt School of Engineering) WC (Women’s College) MD (School of Medicine)

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From the President’s Desk: Before & After

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From the Dean’s Desk: Praying for Restoration

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Bridge Panel: What to Say When Someone is Dying

CHARLIE BERARDESCO T ’80

LUKE A. POWERY

JAMES TODD T ’98

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PathWays: Abandoning Myself to God

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Duke Chapel Restoration Update

DEBBI CHI E ’14

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Rolling with the Stones and Sacred Music

BRIAN SCHMIDT

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Organ Scholars and Evensong

CHRISTOPHER JACOBSON

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Staff Updates: Farewell Meghan Benson, Beth Gettys Sturkey; Welcome Jack Adams, Ava West Back Cover Upcoming Events

before & after

President of the Duke Chapel Advisory Board, Charlie Berardesco

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uch has changed for Duke Chapel since my first letter — certainly the most visible and in some ways jarring is the closure of the Chapel sanctuary for one year of needed renovation and repair. Many of us, I am sure, have seen the initial pictures — pretty amazing!

And, I have been so impressed with the University’s support of this project, and all the work the staff is doing to continue Chapel worship on campus, this summer at Baldwin Auditorium on East Campus, and then in the newly renovated Page Auditorium and also in the Divinity School on West Campus (with a side trip to Cameron Indoor Stadium for Christmas and Easter services!). Please keep all of the University and Chapel staff and those working on these renovations and repairs in your thoughts and prayers during this time.

Thinking about all of the work at the Chapel brings to my mind the theme of restoration — of restoring something to what it once was, and maybe even looking for ways to enhance. My husband Jeffrey and I (yes, we were married on April 25th at our home church, Church of the Epiphany Episcopal, in Washington DC), live in a house that is about 140 years old. Since we became its caretakers in 2000, we have done a fair amount of restoration work — rebuilding the basement, kitchen and bathrooms, adding a new sunroom and expanding a small bedroom into a room suitable for guests (particularly my parents), and restoring the front and back yards.

When we restored our home, we tried to keep two things in mind. First, we wanted the restoration to be consistent with the historic nature of the house. For example, we wanted to maintain the original wood floors and molding and the marble fireplace. As the current, in a long line of, owners of the house, we wanted to honor the people who built the house and its history. But, second, we also 2

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“We, as supporters of the Chapel, are its caretakers, honoring those who, throughout the years, enabled its construction and maintenance, and doing our part to ensure that it is a vital presence on the Duke campus for generations to come.”

Please consider submitting your stories to chapeldevelopment@duke.edu.

wanted the house to be functional for the way we live today. So, when we installed air conditioning (necessary in Washington DC!), we used a technique that did not require pulling down large parts of the ceiling. And, our addition has subtle design elements that reflect design elements of the existing house. We hope that we were able to create a new, more functional home that honors its history.

I think of what the Chapel is doing today in its “restoration” in similar terms. The work that is happening is to restore parts of the structure to what was intended. But, the opportunity is being taken to enhance as well as restore — to restore stain glass, repair pews, upgrade systems. In a way, it is similar to how Jeffrey and I approached our home restoration — we, as supporters of the Chapel, are its caretakers, honoring those who, throughout the years, enabled its construction and maintenance, and doing our part to ensure that it is a vital presence on the Duke campus for generations to come. It is one of the reasons your support of the Chapel is important to continuing its mission and ministries.

In my last letter, I invited you to share your stories of how the Chapel has affected you, stories that we could share in this magazine or online. I want to renew that invitation — as we progress through the next academic year without access to the Chapel’s sanctuary, reminding ourselves of what the Chapel has meant to us will help make it more present for all of us, and help us to look forward to the completion of its restoration and its presence for generations to come.

Please consider submitting your stories to chapeldevelopment @ duke.edu.

I look forward to writing to you in future editions of Chapel View magazine, and hope that some of you will reach out to me with your questions, comments, and suggestions.

And, as always, thank you for your support of Duke Chapel and its mission and ministries — it is vital to the Chapel and its work, and I know that everyone associated with the Chapel is grateful for your support.

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praying for restoration The Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery, Dean of Duke Chapel

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uke Chapel is always being restored. Notice that I did not say “the Duke Chapel building” is being restored. Let me explain.

‘Restoration’ has to do with returning something to an earlier, healthy condition. This word comes from the Latin, meaning ‘to renew or rebuild.’ When a piece of fine furniture is restored, the aim is to return it to its original state, causing it to look like it was meant to look, do what it was meant to do, and be what it was meant to be. In other words, make it whole again.

”Restoration is not necessarily about returning to the good ol’ days or some sort of golden era of faith. It is about returning to God and God’s salvation and becoming who God has always wanted us to be.”

The restoration work that is happening currently to the chapel building is an attempt to return the building back to a healthy, architectural condition but this is not the only restoration work happening this year. God is always restoring this community, restoring us as people of faith, because we never fully arrive at the place of Christian perfection.

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As Christians, much of the larger biblical story and perceived pattern of faith reflect a movement from brokenness to restoration in relationships with God. The work of Old Testament professor and theologian Walter Brueggemann is very helpful when thinking about this. Throughout scripture we see how people in relationship with God often respond to God in unhealthy ways—pride, selfishness, resistance of some kind. This leads to experiences of exile and even destruction—for example, the plagues of Egypt, a curse for David, the children of Israel living as refugees, etc. But as Brueggemann and others note, the journey of faith with God is also on a trajectory toward restoration. God never gives up on God’s people. For instance, God follows Israel into exile in order to bring them back, and promises to restore them and their city of Zion; many of the prophets speak of this. Ultimately, we see and find restoration through the incarnation of Jesus Christ, revealing a God who loves so deeply that he will die for us to save us, to make us whole (salvation is wholeness), restore us, and to make us what and who we ought to be.

To speak of restoration implies that there was a prior relationship and condition that had gone in unhealthy directions. At times, we find ourselves broken, far from God and in need of forgiveness and restoration. We need renewal. We need to return back to a healthy and whole relationship with God. Restoration is not necessarily about returning to the good ol’ days or some sort of golden era of faith. It is about returning to God and God’s salvation and becoming who God has always wanted us to be.

But to be restored and renewed, we need spiritual scaffolding placed around our hearts in order that God may rebuild us inwardly to reflect God outwardly.

Ironically, as God rebuilds the walls of our hearts, our hearts are restored to openness to God and others through a porous generous spirit. Honest confession to God will lead us on the path to restoration, even to the restoration of God’s joy in our lives. Like any Christian community, Duke Chapel needs this restoration, not only of our building, but of our hearts.

Restoration work will take time, but the promise of joy is worth the wait. May this portion of Psalm 51 be our prayer during Duke Chapel’s restoration year: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.” Amen.

Death can sometimes seem far away on a college campus, but it is, of course, the final fact of life for everyone. A Duke Chapel “Bridge Panel” earlier this year explored death and dying from personal, practical, and theological perspectives. The conversation, “What to Say when Someone is Dying,” was part of the Chapel’s Bridge Panels series that seeks to connect people from various walks of life to discuss issues of shared concern.

The dialogue was moderated by Chapel Dean Luke Powery and was organized in partnership with the Duke University School of Nursing, Duke Medicine’s Pastoral Services, and Duke Divinity School. Here are excerpts from the conversation. —James Todd

What to Say when Someone is Dying...

“Not all of us have that luxury—and I’m going to call it a luxury—of the slow march to death, where there are people who can gather and say goodbye…. During the Vietnam War, those of us who were in the military waited for that knock at the door. There was no time to think about what we would say. So, we have to make certain we say it while people are living—and to gather together those stories that matter, and then to sift them … to remember the ones about love, to remember the ones that uplift, to remember the ones that will resonate after this moment.”

—Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Professor of English, Professor of Law, and Professor of African American Studies at Duke “When I think about talking with a dying person, the words are important, the stories are even more important, but sometimes it’s about what we don’t say.

It’s about our presence. And I think, as a nurse, that is one of the most valued tools that we possess—being present and listening in the very athletic sense.”

—Jennifer Gentry, Nurse Practitioner with Duke Palliative Care “It is Lent and we follow closely behind a 33-year-old man who is dying a long and agonizing death. He is surrounded by some people who love him very much and some people who could care less about him…. So the implication of that is, at the very base, we can say to someone who is dying, ‘You are not alone; God is with you; God goes with you.’ Psalm 139 says, ‘Even if I make my bed in hell, you are there, oh God.’” —Richard Lischer, James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of Preaching at Duke Divinity School “When I walk into a room [as a doctor] and I’m going to talk to someone about dying, I try to keep in mind that if I’m talking to you about dying it means that you are not dead. And that’s an important fact. If I’m talking to you about dying, it means that you are alive. And so I’m going to be interested in what it is you want to do with this day of life that you have. I may not be able to tell you how many days you’re going to have, but I couldn’t have told you that the day you were born.”

—Raymond Barfield, pediatric oncologist at Duke’s School of Medicine and associate professor of Christian Philosophy at Duke Divinity School

Watch a recording of entire discussion at https://chapel.duke.edu/community#bridgepanels From the Dean’s Desk | What to Say when Someone is Dying

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Abandoning Myself to God “God may have a better purpose than I thought for having me go through Pratt.”

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his past year as a Chapel PathWays Fellow has been wonderful in many ways. I was challenged to grow both spiritually in my faith journey and in my vocational discernment. As the year went on, they seemed to become more and more intertwined. The more I felt at ease with the uncertainty of my future and that God has a plan for my life that really is the best for me, the larger His presence loomed.

Our PathWays community helped me in the spiritual discipline that I have always struggled with: prayer.

Every weekday morning we communed for about twenty minutes to pray.

These morning prayers varied and broadened my views of what constituted prayer and where it could take place. Before, I thought prayer was something done at set instances before meals and during devotions.

But throughout the year I began to see prayer as something fluid that could be done at anytime during the day and in different forms such as writing, singing, meditating, and through reading the Bible. Where it most made an impact was thinking of prayer as a powerful interceding tool for the injustices in our world. This past year

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with the racial/religious/ethnic issues at Ferguson to Baltimore to here at the Chapel steps, there were many obvious close-to-home incidents to put that in practice and come to this realization.

In addition, living in Christian community helped me grow spiritually because it made me aware of my “brokenness” and need for Christ along with giving me a greater appreciation of deep relationships based on doing life together. Living in the house, my bad tendencies were easily seen and called out. However, I did not feel looked down upon or judged. Rather I felt love and support in naming these tendencies and figuring out how to overcome them. I also was pushed by my housemates to take the time to reflect on Duke, and through that process I learned what to focus

on in growing closer to God. I learned to practice listening to God through my own personal spiritual life and also through advice from other Christians and the importance of being open and attentive to different sources of God’s voice, thus setting up a good foundation for the near future, when I will be busier than I have been in awhile.

What I have learned this year— especially pertaining to my vocational discernment and fairly recent career switch from engineering to medicine—is that I can be uncertain of the next step but be certain of God. Not knowing what tomorrow may bring and wherever I will go, but trusting in Him and clinging in faith that I will be molded in the way that I most need to be “successful” in His goals for me. I feel as if I have become less controlling and consumed with planning—something that I definitely did a lot during the college years— and better at “abandoning myself to God” to some extent, focusing on the

current task at hand, and just being.

Through this process, I have been able to experience more the spontaneous joy of unexpected surprises in relationships and vocational direction that are better than anything I could have ever thought. I have also developed an attitude of expectancy and great reliance in God and wondering with excitement what he is going to do next. I am currently searching for a job for my second gap year before medical school, and the peace I have is so much more than what I had when I was searching for summer internships during college.

dealing with so many other issues that could drag them down. Thus Lincoln providers are fighting an uphill battle in patient care and often do not have time to focus their energies on simple projects that could help improve the overall effectiveness of the services at Lincoln. During my time there, I was able to help out on projects where there had been a need but no personnel. Because of our twenty-five hour a week time constraint and the red tape that comes with being in a medical environment, the direct impact I could make was minimal. However, these projects were greatly appreciated by

While this peace and reliance in God has been more apparent in my life, simultaneously the vocational discernment process has become steadily more peaceful and more focused. My spiritual growth has helped me when meditating about my discernment process and thinking through the noise of life. Now I have cemented my desire to serve people in medicine and no longer have doubts about my career change.

Through the few times I was able to talk to patients at Lincoln Community Health Center, my PathWays internship placement site, I was filled with a wonder and a feeling of fulfillment.

and evidence-based best solutions part of it that I enjoyed from my engineering background. For example, these topics cover figuring out which treatments and drugs are actually better, what surgical procedures are more cost-effective (thus requiring less readmission), and which doctors are better based on their patient population and difficulty of the procedures performed. When I realized that my interest was heading down this path, I was filled with a delighted joy of understanding that God may have a better purpose than I thought for having me go through Pratt.

I felt like I was actually doing something meaningful by connecting, understanding, and truly listening to people when they discussed their health problems. It was a powerful yet extremely humbling experience because I was filled with a sense of awe that this could be the way I serve people in a couple years, and that they trusted me enough to talk to me.

While at Lincoln, I also became aware of the policies and social determinants that affect how providers can deliver healthcare to patients, most of whom at Lincoln are in the lower socioeconomic bracket. This piqued my interest in healthcare policy and health economics, research areas that affect the funding for physicians’ care and which delve into the outcomes that health services physicians provide and the effectiveness of different communication methods. I believe I am attracted to these health topics because of the mathematical analysis

“Overall, the Duke Chapel PathWays Fellowship program has pushed me to grow in important ways and given me the opportunity and resources to gain experiences that I could not find elsewhere.”

Plus, from my vocational discernment, it was great to see how my internship work has benefited the community in a really indirect way. Lincoln treats patients whether they are insured or uninsured. Contrary to popular belief, services are not free, and there is a sliding fee scale. The providers at Lincoln are tasked with caring for patients who are dealing with many issues like substance abuse, homelessness, living in poverty, or a combination of the aforementioned. It is already hard to have regular well-off people follow instructions to improve their health and now Lincoln providers are caring for patients who are

the providers and staff at Lincoln and do indirectly help the patients through improving the services at Lincoln and allowing the physicians to focus on taking care of the patients.

Overall, the Duke Chapel PathWays Fellowship program has pushed me to grow in important ways and given me the opportunity and resources to gain experiences that I could not find elsewhere. Though it is just one year, the lessons I take will definitely be with me as I move closer to becoming a physician, but more importantly, also as a Christian who lives out her faith.

— Debbi Chi, Chapel PathWays Fellow

PathWays:: Abandoning Myself to God

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rews have begun grinding away brittle mortar to repair joints in the Chapel’s limestone ceiling. This detailed work of carefully removing mortar—3/8 of an inch between each limestone rib in the ceiling—began in the Memorial Chapel and is just beginning in the Chancel where the choir sings.

The mortar joint repair will move next to the Nave and Transept.

Dust containment barriers have been installed, and all old mortar will be replaced with new, more flexible material.

Other progress includes beginning to remove and replace the Chapel’s lead-coated copper roofing panels, as well as the 80-year-old leadcoated copper gutter system.

All seven stained glass window panels in the Chancel have been

removed and sent to special studios for repair.

Nearly all interior and exterior scaffolding has been erected for the restoration.

Duke Chapel Sunday Morning Worship Services Moved to Page Auditorium on Sunday, Aug. 9 On Aug. 9, Duke Chapel began holding its weekly Sunday morning worship service in Page Auditorium on Duke’s West Campus.

The Sunday morning interdenominational service begins at 11 a.m.

Free parking is available in the Bryan Center Parking Garage and Parking Lot. The handicapped entrance is located at the side of the auditorium off of the Bryan Center parking lot. Childcare is provided in the auditorium’s box office lobby.

The services continue to be broadcast on radio and cable TV, and webcast online.

Sunday morning education classes organized by the Congregation at Duke Chapel have returned to meeting at 9:45 a.m. in the lowest level of the Divinity School’s Westbrook Building.

During the academic year, the Chapel will hold two other weekly services. Beginning Aug. 30, a service of Choral Evensong will be held 4 p.m. on Sundays in the Divinity School’s Goodson Chapel. A Choral Vespers service will be held 6 p.m. on Thursdays, beginning Sept. 3, also in Goodson Chapel.

“The work that is happening is to restore parts of the structure to what was intended. But, the opportunity is being taken to enhance as well as restore — to restore stain glass, repair pews, upgrade systems.”

—Charlie Berardesco, President of the Duke Chapel Advisory Board

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t has been an exciting year of growth

and opportunity for the Duke Vespers Ensemble. One of the goals of this ensemble has been to inspire singers and explore the intersection between faith and learning (eruditio et religio). This has provided us with some wonderful experiences. Along with our most important duty of singing the weekly Vespers services on Thursdays, the singers performed everything from rare Baroque gems to modern rock backup harmonies.

Top photo:Vespers Ensemble sings in Duke Chapel’s chancel.

Bottom photos: Vespers Ensemble practices with the band in Boston.

In April, we filled Duke Chapel with sacred music from 17th century Rome. This program gave our singers and audience a chance to encounter the varied types of music one would have heard in a Roman Vespers service during the 1600’s. The centerpiece of the program was a monumental work by Giovanni Felice Sances, the Missa Sancta Maria Magdalenae. The remaining repertoire was drawn from devotional music that was composed for Vespers services during a golden age for music of this type.

An online version of the program can be found at this link: bit.ly/1gPUcGn In addition to the performance at Duke, we were excited to reach out to the Raleigh community with a performance in the Christ Church Sacred Music Series in downtown Raleigh. This continued a collaborative relationship between the music programs at Duke Chapel and Christ Church, Episcopal. The singers had a third opportunity to perform this music when they traveled to Boston in June for the Boston Early Music Festival. This was the Vespers Ensemble’s second appearance at the internationally renowned festival, following their 2013 debut performance of Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri. It was an honor to perform again for this energetic audience of early music enthusiasts. Many of the attendees had been looking forward to our return after hearing the group two years ago. Along with the joy Rolling with the Stones and Sacred Music

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of performing at the festival, it was an amazing educational experience for the singers to attend all of the other concerts taking place during the week.

The Vespers Ensemble’s second commercial recording will be released

by MSR Classics this fall. This will be the first recording of the Mass setting

by Sances and includes rarely heard performances of other sacred repertoire with period instruments. This breathes new life into this music and allows our performance at Duke to reach far beyond the Chapel walls.

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“service” of a different type with a band of very different instruments. This necessitated a change in repertoire that jumped from the 1660s to the 1960s, and from a Baroque orchestra to the Rolling Stones!

It was a thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime experience to share the stage with one of the world’s most successful rock bands and the singers represented Duke Chapel well. The band members were complimentary and genuinely appreciative, and it was an extreme honor to receive the invitation to join them in front of 40,000 screaming fans.

— Brian Schmidt, Vespers Conductor

espite the Chapel’s

closure the Vespers

Ensemble has a busy year ahead. Regular Thursday services will continue in Goodson Chapel at the new start time of 6 p.m. We will perform a Bach Vespers concert in October, both at Duke and Lenoir-Rhyne University. Also in the fall the singers will be involved in a collaborative project with the UNC Music Department and King’s College, London.

In the spring the Vespers Ensemble has been chosen to perform at the Southern Division Conference of the American Choral Director’s Association in March.

Jocelyn Streid bridges faith and learning through a career in medicine.

How do doctors care for those they can’t cure? How do you sit with someone whose suffering you’ll never fathom? Does faith have anything to do with medicine?

Support faith and learning at

gifts.duke.edu/chapel

Jocelyn Streid had questions that weren’t meant for her pre-med classes. As an undergraduate PathWays Chapel Scholar, she began her search for answers. She studied narrative and medicine at the Divinity School, explored spirituality and service on Chapel-sponsored trips to New Mexico and Honduras, and gave a Chapel sermon about expanding our imaginations around end-of-life care. She returned to the Chapel as a PathWays Fellow, leading workshops on death and dying for elder women.

Jocelyn will attend Harvard Medical School in the fall to bridge faith and learning at the crossroads of theology and healthcare. Her faith doesn’t have all the answers.

But it does help her ask the hard questions.

Evensong ORGAN SCHOLARS AND

In addition to Sunday morning worship, I encourage you to stop by Goodson Chapel in the Divinity School one week for 4 p.m. Evensong (Sundays) or 6 p.m. Vespers (Thursdays) and let the beauty of word and music together become a quiet respite from the busyness of your week.

Duke Chapel stands at the center of the university, and music stands at the center of the university’s worshipping community. As such, the Chapel offers more than 200 opportunities for worship each year, and organ and sacred choral music remain a pillar in the spiritual life of the Chapel. Along with worship on Sunday morning, the Chapel is home to a regular rotation of services of prayer and meditation throughout the week. In addition to the long tradition of Thursday Choral Vespers, the Chapel this year adds Choral Evensong, held each Sunday afternoon, to its growing list of choral services.

Evensong derives from the medieval church and is offered at Duke in its classical form from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which sought to harmonize Catholic and Protestant traditions. Most of the service is sung by the choir on behalf of those present and those gathered elsewhere around the world. Participation occurs through our presence and our listening so that the words and music might become a prayer within and lift us to contemplate God’s beauty and glory.

While many services at Duke focus on the preached word to convey the good news of the Gospel, Evensong is a liturgy that employs the sung word to illuminate God’s Word. Consequently, Evensong demands the most from organists as they strive to master the skills of service playing and choral accompaniment.

Such skills are best acquired and honed in the hands-on practicum that the liturgy of Evensong provides. As a result, Duke Chapel now supports two organ scholar positions to learn and master the craft of service playing. As the conductor of Evensong, I am excited that the two organ scholars for 2015–2016, Eric Surber and Jordan Prescott, join the team of Chapel musicians. These two-year positions embody the educational mission of the university by providing the hands-on practical experience and training in service playing that, for centuries, has proven critical for preparation in vocational sacred music.

Though new for Duke, organ scholar positions have existed for centuries in the cathedrals and collegiate chapels of England, after which the footprint and architecture of Duke Chapel is fashioned. The organ scholar program at Duke takes its model from the most prominent organ scholarships in existence today, notably those at King’s College and St. John’s College, Cambridge. In adopting this model, Duke Chapel is not only helping to secure the future of sacred music in America through organ scholarships and regular choral services, but is also joining in the great tradition of cathedrals and chapels around the world offering regular prayer and praise to God.

“The organ scholar program at Duke takes its model from the most prominent organ scholarships in existence today, notably those at King’s College and St. John’s College, Cambridge.”

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Recordings, too, have been a more regular venture at Duke, notably the choral discs from the Chapel Choir and most recently the Vespers Ensemble recording of early Italian sacred music from Rome. Organ recordings featuring the magnificent instruments of Duke Chapel have been somewhat sparser. The Aeolian organ, one of the jewels of worship at the Chapel, is the featured instrument on the most recent organ recording from Duke. Beautifully restored in 2008, this instrument now stands as one of the finest organs in America, bringing to listeners today the now renowned orchestral sound world of the 1930’s. This new recording features music that showcases the kaleidoscopic depth of tone and color of the instrument.

Of particular interest will be a transcription of Jean Sibelius’s great orchestral portrait “Finlandia,” Eugène Gigout’s “Grand Chœur Dialogue” featuring the Amalgam Brass Ensemble in this magnificent tour de force for organ and brass, as well as Marcel Dupré’s epic “Trois Préludes et Fugues, Opus 7.”

The disc’s release is slated for early 2016.

Though the building of Duke Chapel is closed for restoration during this academic year, the worship of God is very much alive and open to all.

— Christopher Jacobson, Chapel Organist Organ Scholars and Evensong

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STAFF UPDATES The Chapel wishes Meghan Benson all the best in her new role as Chaplain at Duke Divinity School

TEMPORARY OFFICE LOCATIONS 2015-16

Meghan has served as director of worship for Duke Chapel since 2006, where she planned and led worship, counseled students, and provided spiritual guidance for many members of the Duke University community.

In her new position at the Divinity School, she will be responsible for overseeing all worship services in Goodson Chapel, organizing and directing spiritual formation groups, and providing pastoral care for students, faculty, and staff.

Duke Chapel staff will work in temporary offices due to restoration work being done in the Chapel building that will affect the basement offices. Religious Life staff members with offices normally in the basement are working at various locations on and off campus.

The Chapel wishes Beth Gettys Sturkey all the best in her new role as Senior Major Gifts Director at Sanford School of Public Policy

See below for a list of locations to which staff have moved for the 2015-16 academic year.

Beth has served the Chapel as Director of Development since 2010, where she managed all aspects of fundraising and stewardship of the chapel, and cultivated relationships with the Friends of Duke Chapel.

In her new role, she will develop programs and strategies to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward gifts from alumni, parents, and friends of the University to fund the priorities of Sanford. She also will serve as a member of the Development and Alumni Relations leadership team, participating in long-range, strategic planning, prioritization of institutional and departmental funding needs, and development of gift opportunities.

• Divinity School, 142 Langford: Luke Powery, James Todd, and Adrienne Koch

The Chapel welcomes Jack Adams as Interim Worship Coordinator

• 212 Crowell Building (East Campus): Adam Hollowell

Jack immigrated to North Carolina from London, England, in January 2015, to be with his wife Jess, who is a student at Duke Divinity School. After studying Theology at King’s College, London, Jack worked in various ministry roles at two London churches, as well as at the headquarters of the Church of England in Westminster. He has recently become a member of the Anglican Church in North America and lives in Canterbury House, in Durham, NC, an intentional Christian community, where he is exploring a call to ordained ministry.

In his spare time, Jack loves to be outside—hiking, photographing wildlife, tending his vegetable garden, or playing with his mischievous dachshund-beagle, Smoky.

He is slowly adjusting to the Carolina heat!

• Freeman Center for Jewish Life, 1415 Faber St.: Joshua Lazard

The Chapel welcomes Ava West as Special Assistant for Development Ava West, former Chapter President of Kappa Delta Sorority, graduated Magna cum Laude from Pace University in 2010 with a B.A. in Communication Studies and a minor in Psychology. In 2013, she graduated as a Juris Doctor from the Law School at Campbell University. After working as a case manager in a criminal defense law firm for two years, she realized that a legal career is not the right fit for her. She joined the Duke Chapel Development staff in July 2015.

Ava grew up in Boston, MA, and went to college in New York City. She moved to North Carolina in 2010, and now lives in Durham with her husband, Alden, and their dog, Captain.

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• Divinity School, 059 Langford: Jack Adams • Smith Warehouse Bay 4, 2nd Floor: Christy Lohr Sapp, Joni Harris, Gerly Ace, Sara Clark, Lisa Moore, and Ava West

• PathWays House, 713 Kent St.: Bruce Puckett • Northgate Mall, Suite 662: The Congregation at Duke Chapel staff • Episcopal Center, 505 Alexander Ave.: Presbyterian Campus Ministry • Wesley House, 106 N. Buchanan St.: Wesley Fellowship • Central Campus Apartments: International Students Inc. and Graduate Christian Fellowship • Falcone Arena House, 402 N. Buchanan Blvd: Catholic Center staff

“God is always restoring this community, restoring us as people of faith, because we never fully arrive at the place of Christian perfection.”

—The Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery, Dean of Duke Chapel

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Front Cover Photo of Duke Chapel’s Cornerstone So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

— Ephesians 2:19–22

UPCOMING EVENTS

Weekly Worship Services Sundays 11 a.m.

Morning Service Page Auditorium, West Campus Sundays 4 p.m.

Service of Choral Evensong Goodson Chapel, Divinity School Thursdays 6 p.m.

Service of Choral Vespers Goodson Chapel, Divinity School

OCTOBER 4 Blessing of the Animals 3 p.m. Chapel Lawn

16 Choral Vespers Fall Concert 8 p.m. Goodson Chapel

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All Hallows Eve Worship Service Vespers Ensemble 10:30 p.m. Goodson Chapel

Handel’s Messiah Chapel Choir 7:30 p.m. Page Auditorium

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NOVEMBER 2

Handel’s Messiah Chapel Choir 2 p.m. Page Auditorium

Handel’s Messiah tickets on sale at 11 a.m. tickets.duke.edu

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Handel’s Messiah Chapel Choir 3 p.m. Page Auditorium

Jazz Worship Service 7:30 p.m. Goodson Chapel

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DECEMBER 3

Children’s Service 2 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium

Lessons and Carols Service Vespers Ensemble 6 p.m. Goodson Chapel

Christmas Worship

Service with Sermon 5:30 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium Lessons and Carols 11 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium