Chapel Schedule: Spring Quarter 2022
Tuesdays at 11:10 a.m., Upper Gwinn Commons
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TUESDAY, MAR. 29
Rev. Lisa Ishihara + Communion
University Chaplain
Opening Spring Quarter
TUESDAY, APR. 5
Rev. Kelsey Rorem
Associate Chaplain
Prayer & Communion
TUESDAY, APR. 12
Dr. Doug Strong
Paul T. Walls Professor of Wesleyan Studies, Professor of the History of Christianity
Prayer & Communion
TUESDAY, APR. 19
All-University Chapel
Rev. Shalom Agtarap
Pastor, First United Methodist Church of Tacoma
Resurrection Week
Morning Plenary
"It's Time to Tip"
Dr. Joyce del Rosario
11 a.m., Upper Gwinn Commons
Dr. Joyce del Rosario
After serving over 20 years in urban youth ministry, Dr. Joyce del Rosario is now an assistant Professor at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA.
Previously, she was the Executive Director of New Creation Home Ministries, a residential and outreach program for teen moms and an area director for Young Life where she worked with low income and immigrant communities. She is an active and outstanding preacher and speaker. Joyce also served as a national board member for CCDA. She holds her MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary and her PhD from Fuller Theological Seminary School of Intercultural Studies. Her research special interests include urban and multiethnic youth ministry, social justice and racial reconciliation, theological anthropology, marginalized women, and postcolonial Filipino-American theology. Her favorite activity is sharing delicious food with friends and family.
Evening Plenary
Lenore Three Stars
6:30 p.m., Upper Gwinn Commons
Lenore Three Stars
Lenore was born on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where her father was born. Her mother is Minnecoujou Lakota from the Cheyenne River Reservation, S.D. She earned her BA from Fort Lewis College in Colorado, then completed a civil rights career in Seattle, Washington. She retired and moved to Spokane to be an active unci (grandmother) to her two takojas (grandkids), and began her graduate studies. Lenore earned an M.A. through the North American Institute of Indigenous Theological Studies, at Portland Seminary/George Fox University in Oregon. Lenore services as a facilitator for the annual Journey to Mosaic, a faith-based racial reconciliation experience in the Pacific Northwest. She speaks and writes from a Native perspective on decolonizing theology and racial reconciliation, and serves on boards related to her interests in justice, the local community, Indigenous issues, and a discipleship of creation care.
TUESDAY, MAY 3
Kristyn Komarnicki
Director, Oriented to Love, Christians for Social Action
“A Story of Becoming”
This Tuesday we join with SPU In One Room’s Transforming Conflict Through Curiosity Conversation. Guest speaker, Kristyn Komarnicki, is director of dialogue and convening at Christians for Social Action (CSA). The creator of CSA’s Oriented to Love dialogues about sexual/gender diversity in the church, Kristyn gathers Christians of different sexual orientations, gender identities, and theological convictions together so they can begin to know, understand, and love each other, in search of a unity that is deeper than agreement. Kristyn says she enjoys helping people have more generative conversations, reframing conflict not as something to be feared or avoided, but as an opportunity for maturing in Christ.
TUESDAY, MAY 10
Dr. Jeff Keuss
Professor of Christian Ministry, Theology, and Culture
Prayer & Communion
TUESDAY, MAY 17
Dr. Sara Koenig
Professor of Biblical Studies
Prayer & Communion
TUESDAY, MAY 24
Dr. Mike Langford
Professor of Theology, Discipleship, and Ministry
Prayer & Communion
TUESDAY, MAY 31
All-University Chapel
Celebration Chapel & Reception
Reception in Martin Square