Union Chapel will open its doors for its 150th summer season on Sunday, July 4 with Swarthmore College president Valerie Smith in the pulpit.
Union Chapel
July 29, 2021
On Wednesday, August 4, Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs is hosting a free dedicatory recital of its recently restored organ, which dates back to 1924.
July 31, 2021
Louisa Hufstader
Two of the country’s most prominent black intellectuals joined forces on the stage of Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs Thursday afternoon, where an eager crowd of listeners filled the pews.
August 10, 2021
Noah Asimow
On Saturday night at 10 p.m., Sen. Raphael Warnock was on Capitol Hill, fighting to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill. On Sunday morning Reverend Warnock was preaching on Martha’s Vineyard.
2014
August 12, 2014
This Sunday, August 17, the guest preacher at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs is Bishop Robert Christopher Wright from Atlanta, Ga. He is the first African American to become an Episcopal bishop in Georgia.
July 15, 2014
A trial lawyer, turned stand-up comedian and Baptist minister, Reverend Susan Sparks is America’s only female comedian with a pulpit. She visits Union Chapel on July 20.
July 2, 2014
The Honorable Sharon Pratt, J.D., former mayor of Washington, D.C., will be the guest preacher at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs on Sunday, July 6.
2013
August 15, 2013
Bishop Robert Christopher Wright from Atlanta, Ga., will address the congregation this Sunday, August 18, at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs at the 10 a.m. service. His sermon is titled The God of Now.
Rev. Wright is the first African American to become an Episcopal bishop in Georgia. He was elected by the lay delegates and priests of the Diocese of Atlanta in June of 2012. Prior to his ordination as bishop, Bishop Wright was canon pastor and vicar of St. Saviour at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York city and chaplain of the Cathedral School.
July 17, 2013
This Sunday, July 21, Reverend Susan Sparks returns to Union Chapel.
A trial lawyer turned standup comedian and Baptist minister, Rev. Susan Sparks is America’s only female comedian with a pulpit.
July 11, 2013
On Sunday, July 14, Robert Allan Hill, dean of Marsh Chapel and a professor of New Testament and Pastoral Theology at Boston University, will be the guest preacher at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs.
Mr. Hill’s religious leadership at Boston University encompasses all of the 17 schools and colleges and the larger community, and is rooted in the historic pulpit of Marsh Chapel, whose Sunday service is broadcast on NPR each Sunday morning at 11 a.m.
