Marsh Chapel Sunday Services

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill (Dean of the Chapel) preaches a sermon entitled "Communion Meditation:  The Food That Endures For Eternal Life". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Precatus est Moyses (Ex. 32:11, 13–14)" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "It is enough & Lift thine eyes (from Elijah)" by Felix Mendelssohn. 

The Reverend Andrew Kimble (Director of Online Lifelong Learning Associate Director of Alumni & Donor Relations, Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Boston University School of Theology) preaches a sermon entitled "We’re in This Together". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Exaltabo te Domine" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "My God, I love thee (from the St. Mark Passion)" by Charles Wood. 

The Reverend Dr. Philip Amerson (President Emeritus Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary Evanston, Illinois) preaches a sermon entitled "Together, as a Dwelling Place". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Justitiae Domini" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "Dear Lord and Father of mankind" by C. Hubert H. Parry. 

Jonathan Byung Hoon Lee, MDiv (Associate Chaplain for Student Outreach) preaches a sermon entitled "From Where Do We Stand?". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Lift up your heads, O ye gates" by John Amner,  and "Beati quorum via, Op. 38, No. 3" by C. V. Stanford. 

The Rev. Dr. Jessica Chicka preaches a sermon entitled "Facing Rejection". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Populum humilem" by G. P. da Palestrin ,  and "O for a closer walk with God" by C. V. Stanford. 

The Rev. Dr. William B. Lawrence preaches a sermon entitled "For Thine Is...the Power". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "The eyes of all wait upon thee" by Jean Berger ,  and "Sicut in holocaustis" by G. P. da Palestrina. 

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill preaches a sermon entitled "A Look to the Future". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Almighty and everlasting God" by Orlando Gibbons,  and "Perfice gressus meos" by G. P. da Palestrina. 

William Cordts, (CAS’07, STH’11, Sunday Bible Study Leader, Marsh Chapel) preaches a sermon entitled "Seeds for the Future". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Benedicam Dominum" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "Jesus Christ the apple tree" by Elizabeth Poston. 

The Rev. Dr. Charles D. Yoost preaches a sermon entitled "All in the Family!". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Illumina oculos meos" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "Locus iste a Deo factus est" by Anton Bruckner. 

The Rev. Dr. Jessica Chicka preaches a sermon entitled "For Us". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Sperent in te" by G. P. da Palestrina,  and "O salutaris Hostia" by Gioachino Rossini. 

The Rev. Dr. Jessica Chicka preaches a sermon entitled "Metaphorical Understanding". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Benedictus sit Deus Pater" by G. P. da Palestrin,  and "Sicut Moses, SWV 68" by Heinrich Schütz. 

Addressing the hundreds gathered in Marsh Chapel for the 2024 Boston University Baccalaureate service, speaker Rev. Walter E. Fluker (GRS’88, STH’88, Hon.’24), Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Ethical Leadership at BU’s School of Theology, warned of today’s “potential for madness—moral, spiritual, psychological, collective chaos,” evidenced in the “social and geopolitical” strife engulfing the United States, the Middle East, Latin America, and other nations.

The Rev. Dr. Karen Coleman preaches a sermon entitled "Love One Another". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Non vos relinquam orphanos" by William Byrd, Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock by Heinrich Schütz) and "Jesu, dulcis memoria" by Tomás Luis de Victoria. 

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill and Dr. Scott Jarrett present a joint message on the scholarship and theology of the day's Bach Cantata, entitled "The Bach Experience." The Marsh Chapel Choir performs “O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe, BWV 34" by J.S. Bach along with service music and hymns.

Jonathan Byung Hoon Lee preaches a sermon entitled "What is There to Care For?". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Die Himmel erzählen, from Die Schöpfung" by Joseph Haydn and "All you works of the Lord, bless the Lord" by Kenneth Jennings. 

The Rev. Dr. Karen Coleman preaches a sermon entitled "It’s Still Easter". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord" by Undine S. Moore and "Ye choirs of new Jerusalem" by C. V. Stanford. 

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill preaches a sermon entitled "Communion Meditation". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "I sat down under his shadow" by Edward Bairstow and "Greater love hath no man" by John Ireland. 

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill preaches a Easter Sunday sermon entitled "Resurrection Family". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Surgens Jesus" by Peter Philips and "Singt dem Herren - from The Creation" by F. J. Haydn. 

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill preaches a sermon entitled "Breath of Life". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Hosanna to the Son of David" by Orlando Gibbons and "Solus ad victimam" by Kenneth Leighton. 

The Rev. Dr. Robert Allan Hill preaches a sermon entitled "Raymond Brown Writing". The Marsh Chapel Choir performs "Drop, drop, slow tears" by Kenneth Leighton and "Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz" by Johannes Brahms.