{"id":59156,"date":"2025-09-25T10:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=59156"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:44:33","slug":"marsh-chapel-kicks-off-its-75th-anniversary-celebration-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/marsh-chapel-kicks-off-its-75th-anniversary-celebration-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsh Chapel kicks off its 75th Anniversary Celebration this Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is an excerpt from the article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/marsh-chapel-75th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marsh Chapel, the Soul of Boston University, kicks off its 75th Anniversary Celebration this Weekend<\/a><\/em><em>\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/author\/rich-barlow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rich Barlow<\/a>, published on September 24, 2025, by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU Today<\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Kimberly Macdonald joined the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chapel\/music\/marsh-chapel-choir\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marsh Chapel Choir<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>at Boston University during her freshman year, in 2001. Macdonald (CFA\u201904, COM\u201923) is still singing in the choir 24 years later, as the chapel, opened in 1950, celebrates its 75th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chapel choir is a spiritual home for me and many of my fellow singers and alumni,\u201d says Macdonald, the BU School of Theology marketing and communications director. \u201cI\u2019ve grown up with this choir. It is the intergenerational community that has been the most steadfast and solid throughout my entire adult life. We\u2019ve seen each other through job changes, moves across the globe, getting married and having children, loves and losses, successes and failures.\u201d Macdonald\u2019s choir mates sang at her wedding in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPersonal holiness and social holiness both converge here,\u201d says the\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chapel\/profile\/the-rev-dr-robert-allan-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Robert Allan Hill<\/a><span>, the chapel\u2019s dean since 2006 and the sixth person to hold that position; he is also a School of Theology professor.<\/span><strong><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>\u201cWe express a deep personal faith and an active social involvement [that are] mutually enriching.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"button btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/marsh-chapel-75th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the article \u201cMarsh Chapel, the Soul of Boston University, kicks off its 75th Anniversary Celebration this Weekend\u201d by Rich Barlow, published on September 24, 2025, by BU Today.\u00a0 Kimberly Macdonald joined the\u00a0Marsh Chapel Choir\u00a0at Boston University during her freshman year, in 2001. Macdonald (CFA\u201904, COM\u201923) is still singing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,202,203],"tags":[418,391,285],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59157,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59156\/revisions\/59157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}