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“What Time is It?” is theme for 2021-22 worship series at Maryville College

Sept. 2, 2021

“What Time is It?” is the theme for the 2021-22 worship series at Maryville College, which began Aug. 31.

Community worship is held every Tuesday from 1:15 p.m. until 1:50 p.m. in the Samuel Tyndale Wilson Center for Campus Ministry (CCM). For members of the public and those who would like to attend virtually, the services will be streamed on the Maryville College Center for Campus Ministry Facebook page. In-person worship will have physically distanced seating for MC faculty, staff and students. Masks are required in all indoor spaces on campus.

 “Our worship series this year will focus on the question of time,” said the Rev. Dr. Anne McKee, campus minister. “We’ll be thinking about what this odd, dangerous and rich moment in history and in our lives calls of us. We will meditate, from different traditions, on the significance of time as a gift, and also a task-master. What does the time we are living in offer us? And what does it ask of us? We will spend time together, thinking about what time it is, for each of us, and for our community, in hopes of living well in the time we are given.”

McKee introduced the theme in the first chapel service on Aug. 31 and will be the featured speaker on Sept. 7, Sept. 21, Nov. 16, Nov. 30 and Dec. 7. Other featured speakers for the fall semester include: Dr. Dan Klingensmith, vice president and dean of the College, on Sept. 28; Ben Fox, MC head football coach, on Oct. 5; Tiara Kemp ’22, MC senior, on Oct. 12; Dr. Doug Sofer, associate professor of history, on Oct. 19; Dr. Joy Buongiorno, assistant professor of environmental biology, on Oct. 26; Dr. Andrew Irvine, associate professor of philosophy and religion, on Nov. 2; and Bruce Guillaume ’76, founder and director of Mountain Challenge, on Nov. 9. Maryville College students in the MC Worship Committee will lead an outdoor worship service on Sept. 14 (weather permitting).

For more information about Maryville College’s worship series, please visit maryvillecollege.edu/ccm or contact the CCM at 865.981.8299.

Maryville College is a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning and one of America’s oldest colleges. For more than 200 years we’ve educated students to be giving citizens and gifted leaders, to study everything, so that they are prepared for anything — to address any problem, engage with any audience and launch successful careers right away. Located in Maryville, Tennessee, between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of Knoxville, Maryville College offers nearly 1,200  students from around the world both the beauty of a rural setting and the advantages of an urban center, as well as more than 60 majors, seven pre-professional programs and career preparation from their first day on campus to their last. Today, our 10,000 alumni are living life strong of mind and brave of heart and are prepared, in the words of our Presbyterian founder, to “do good on the largest possible scale.”