Chaplain’s Welcome

Welcome to the Chapel at the University of King's College! And welcome especially to new students.

The Chapel is open to all and has something to offer 'all sorts and conditions' of people. The building is a quiet space open to the whole King's community from early each morning until late evening. The Chaplain (that's me, Fr Ingalls) is on campus for anyone and everyone who would like a chat or a listening and non-judgemental ear. Everyone is welcome to every event sponsored by the Chapel, whether it be worship, concerts, open mics, hikes, retreats, social events, or feasts and fasts. Even the peculiar  spiritual practices we have received are mostly not unique  to the Chapel at all, but common to much of the Christian tradition. Some are shared with other traditions, too. They are to help us learn to grow in reverence and gratitude for beauty, goodness, and truth. But once again there is nothing exclusively 'Anglican' or 'Christian' or even 'religious' about such reverence.

Finally, many different people for many different reasons are searching for a way of life that gathers where our culture scatters, that unites where our culture divides, that goes on seeking the humanity of those we find difficult to understand or love where our culture would have us simply cut them off. In the Chapel, the particular tradition we have received provides the means to be part of this search.

In a word, in the Chapel it is often our delight and sometimes our struggle to love the same world that we seek to understand in Alumni Hall. This is the world we all inhabit together. So, no matter who you are or what you do or do not believe, welcome!

Under the Mercy,

Ranall+

“What is forgiving? Pushing your way through thorns to stand alongside your old enemy.”

From 'Pa Beth Yw Dyn', translated by Rowan Williams

ABOUT THE CHAPEL

The King’s College Chapel is for all King’s and Dalhousie students of any faith or none. Worship services, lectures, concerts, open mics, all-night vigils, and plays all take place in this space. The Chapel is open from early morning to midnight for anyone to enter and read, pray, sit in quiet contemplation, practise an instrument, etc. The Chapel’s student leadership conduct retreats and hikes each term for King’s and Dalhousie students, faculty and staff, and community members; organize discussions and lectures; run concerts, open mics, poetry nights, and more; and coordinate daily student-led worship.

The Chapel Choir provides beautiful choral Evensong and Eucharist services each week after the fashion of the Oxford and Cambridge collegiate chapels; The Chapel is home to other student-led choirs: the Sunday Morning Choir and the Compline Choir. Each of these choirs leads worship on a weekly basis.

The Chapel, and all that happens in it, is for you and is yours for the taking! Welcome!

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Accessibility Questionnaire

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Get in Touch

MAILING ADDRESS

University of King’s College Chapel
6350 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2A1

GENERAL INQUIRIES

The Rev'd Dr. Ranall Ingalls, Chaplain and Priest-in-Charge
ranall.ingalls@ukings.ca
(506) 232-8270
(902) 422-1271 Ext. 140