Campus Chapel

08/31/2026

Welcome back, Wolverines!

08/27/2026

The Fruit of Joy

By Julia LaPlaca (Chapel Board Co-President & Art History PhD Student) My attentiveness during sermons is not at an all-time high during this season of life. Frankie, my seven-month old, babbles and wiggles during services at the Campus Chapel and is only sometimes placated by a finger or corner of a book to gnaw. However, one of the comforting takeaways I’ve had from our current series on the Fruits of the Spirit is that…...

By Julia LaPlaca (Chapel Board Co-President & Art History PhD Student) My attentiveness during sermons is not at an all-time high during this season of life. Frankie, my seven-month old, babble…

06/07/2026

Inklings: Spring 2026

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Check out the Chapel’s Spring 2026 newsletter! 2026 SpringDownload

04/09/2026

And the Winner is…

This year the community got in on the madness in a different sort of way: a Books of the Bible bracket determined by community voting....

This year the community got in on the madness in a different sort of way: a Books of the Bible bracket determined by community voting.

03/02/2026

Inklings: Winter 2026

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Check out the Chapel’s Winter 2026 newsletter!

12/23/2025

Christmas Greetings!

Merry Christmas from the Campus Chapel! As a difficult year for the University of Michigan draws to a close, we are comforted by the hope we have in Jesus. As Emmanuel, God-with-us, he knows our struggles and challenges so well, and comes to lift up every valley and make the rough places plain. May you, too, know the joy of the incarnation this Chrsitmas season!...

Merry Christmas from the Campus Chapel! As a difficult year for the University of Michigan draws to a close, we are comforted by the hope we have in Jesus. As Emmanuel, God-with-us, he knows our st…

11/21/2025

Inklings: Fall 2025

Please enjoy our fall newsletter, and don’t forget we need your financial support to continue our ministry at the University of Michigan! 2025 FallDownload

Please enjoy our fall newsletter, and don’t forget we need your financial support to continue our ministry at the University of Michigan! 2025 FallDownload

06/10/2025

Check out the Chapel's Spring 2025 newsletter!

Check out the Chapel’s Spring 2025 newsletter!

05/09/2025

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Chapel’s core values. Though I try to resist the urge to reduce ministry to management-speak, it can sometimes be helpful to borrow ideas and terminology from that world. Things like mission, vision, and core values can be helpful, provided they are means to discern the Holy Spirit’s leading. As my Lutheran colleague here at UM, Elizabeth Friedman, recently quipped to me, “A ministry that doesn’t have a sense of its particular mission is probably doing a lot of good things, but nothing really well.”...

                Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Chapel’s core values. Though I try to resist the urge to reduce…

04/29/2025

For West Michigan Chapel alumni: our current pianist and the Christina Postema Memorial Scholarship recipient, Cezary Karwowski, is giving a recital at St. Cecilia in Grand Rapids!