Worship and Spiritual Life
On-campus chapel and worship opportunities provide focused times for peers and mentors to come together into a single congregation. Worship on campus reflects Andover Newton’s denominational diversity as well as the school’s commitment to interfaith dialogue. While members of each faith tradition tend to hold worship services that are based on their own religious practices, services on campus always remain open to the entire community regardless of denominational affiliation.
Weekly Services:
Regular worship services are held during the Fall and Spring semesters. (Please see the Academic Calendar for semester dates.)
Wednesday Community Chapel is held weekly during the semester at 1:00pm in the Wilson Chapel. Typically, this is a service of Word and Table, and lead by a faculty member in conjunction with a student group or student fellowship. Many of our professors are not only excellent educators, but ordained clergy. These services are also often blessed with music offered by the Andover Newton Chapel Choir.
Universalist Unitarian (UU) worship and Black Student Fellowship (BSF) worship both happen on Thursdays at 1:00pm in the Wilson Chapel. Most Thursdays worship is held in the UU tradition while one Thursday a month the BSF leads worship.
Compline (Evening Prayer) is held Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the lower prayer room of the Wilson Chapel. This service lasts from 9:00pm – 9:15pm and is hosted by the Episcopal Student Fellowship.
There is a time of Music and Meditation every weekday morning from 8:00am to 8:30am in the Main Sanctuary of the Wilson Chapel. This service is followed immediately by Morning Worship, a time for students faculty and staff to gather and worship together at the beginning of each day. Five student liturgists lead Morning Worship regularly and a variety of homilists are scheduled at the beginning of each semester.
The Andover Newton Chapel Choir meets every Wednesday of the semester at noon for practice. All are encouraged to join.
Please contact Ned Parker () with general questions regarding chapel services.
Worship Calendars
Please return to this site in January 2008 for an updated worship
schedule. Until then, please refer all questions to Ned Allyn Parker,
Chapel Steward, at
Updated December 21, 2007
