This summer, Emmanuel Church will worship at 10 a.m. in the Lindsey Chapel. After each service, we will engage in a variety of activities. The theme for this year’s 19th series of Chapel Camp is “Fertile Ground”. It will continue to reflect a deep truth about the Emmanuel community: the dazzling breadth and depth of our passions and interests.
Topics are listed below, but more details will be shared in our Sunday service announcements and emailed via This Week at Emmanuel. To receive this e-newsletter, please email info@emmanuelboston.org.
Schedule of Chapel Camp Sessions
June 14 – Resonant Roots: the Lindsey Organ
Our vestry hired John Roper of Plenum Organ Company to do some major catching up with deferred maintenance to the leather parts and seals, and cleaning pipes in the Lindsey Chapel organ. When he began, many of the pipes were not “speaking.” Air leaks made the organ sound as if it were wheezing! Returning the organ to reasonable playing condition will allow evaluation for future work to retain, augment, or replace the instrument. John Roper and John Dilworth will talk with us about their findings and experiences.
June 21 – Sacred Ground: Emmanuel’s Spirit in Building and Growing Community
The 19th century, particularly following the end of the Civil War, saw the birth of many humorous, satirical publications and periodicals. A local example is The Harvard Lampoon which was founded in 1876. Unlike many of these magazines The Lampoon continues to thrive in its lovely building in Harvard Square. Our guest, John Tittmann has been the architect caring for that building for many years, preserving its character while guiding its adaptation to changing times- a challenge that we at Emmanuel have also faced in the 21st Century. We invite you to a discussion about buildings, and in particular how they can focus an organizations identity and further its goals.
John is a founding partner of Albert Righter Tittmann Architects. He has always been interested in the varied languages of architecture, and how architecture communicates aspirations and culture.
June 28 – Sown in Time: Christian Communities in the Mid-19th Century
In the 1840s, utopian communities of all kinds—from Shakers to socialists—flourished in the U.S. At the same time, Catholic monastic communities in Europe experienced a renaissance, and Anglican monastic communities were re-founded both in England and America. Christine Piazza, our summer intern and a PhD student in American Studies, will present some of her research on Christian communities, from monastics to more colorful sects, and discuss what we can learn from them today.
July 5 – Harvest Table: Garden, Fun, and Belonging at the Parish Picnic
July 12 – Pilgrim’s Path: Photos From the Camino
July 19 – Healing the Soil: The Work of Reparations
July 26 – Bloom and Spoon: Sundae Sunday
August 2 – Fertile Margins: Mending the Space Between Book Talk
August 9 – Deep Roots: Bach and Emmanuel’s Musical Legacy
August 16 – Scattered Seeds: The Poetry of Charles Coe
August 23 – Hallowed Ground: Hymns of 1776
August 30 – Rooted in Grace: The Emmanuel Movement and AA
September 6 – New Harvest: Dim Sum Feast
Past Sessions
May 31 – Seeds of Possibility: Fundraiser Tea for B-SAFE
June 7 – Tending the Word: Rethinking Paul after 2000 Years.
Karen King led us in a discussion of a recent New Yorker article by Adam Gopnik, who offers a provocative take on recent scholarship on Paul—who he claims “turned a Jewish sect into a world religion” and in the process “remade human history.” He provides us an opportunity to think together about Paul afresh and perhaps reconsider our views of him. Join our discussion as we gather in Chapel Camp to talk and listen to each other. The link to the article from the April 13 is here: New Yorker article by Adam Gopnik .To read up to 6 articles/year without charge, register here with The New Yorker.