A Reconciling Congregation

224 Forest Home Drive, Ithaca, NY  14850  +  (607) 257-4329
Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

THE CHAPEL'S MISSION STATEMENT

Embracing God’s will for our community through education, compassion, and justice.
What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God.”

~ Micah 6:8 ~

The Chapel In Ministry, Mission & Outreach

CONVERSATIONS FOR AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY

Free & Open to the Public at Forest Home Chapel. The Chapel begins a series of community lectures addressing broad topics of social justice, the environment, politics, and the arts. Talks will be held on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m., will be about 50 minutes long, and will be followed by questions and discussion. 

October 18: “Landscape in Peril.” Presenter Carol Hockett, Coordinator of School and Family Programs, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. An illustrated discussion of contemporary artists’ responses to our threatened environment.

November 15: “Moral Lives and the First Amendment.” Presenter Steve Shiffrin, Charles Frank Reavis Sr., Professor of Law Emeritus at Cornell Law School, Cornell University. The private and public morality encouraged by interpretations of freedom of speech and of religion is defective.

December 13: “Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices.” Presenters Sara Haefeli, Crystal Peebles and Timothy Johnson. All three speakers are faculty members of the School of Music at Ithaca College. A roundtable discussion of Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning vocal piece, with musical examples from the Grammy award-winning album, Roomful of Teeth.