age is more than a chapel. It is a journey. We can draw upon its rich history and the path we embark on today. It is a communal excursion into the realm where intellect and imagination dances with reason and revelation. It is a spiritual, artistic, ethical exploration at an intersection of humanities and science where diverse people and ideas converse. It is a place where students can reflect on their academic/personal growth at Cornell and upon the future. It is a place where we draw upon the ancient and modern religions, all replete with journey motifs. More than a chapel, Sage is a journey, an adventure.

In 2007-08, Sage Chapel will offer to the Cornell and Ithaca communities a new Sunday afternoon service. The 4 pm Vespers, an integrated program of spoken word, music and other art forms celebrate the humanistic and spiritual dimensions of the University's intellectual pursuits. Replacing the 11 am Sunday service, Vespers acknowledges the need for both active engagement of humanistic and spiritual issues and a place for the experience of music and other art forms that transcend the everyday experiences of academe.

A series of themes, each flexible and periodically provocative, will relate the offerings of each month. Faith and Reason begins the year's programming, with October's All of Creation touching on varied aspects of our natural world. November will feature Hearing the Word, an emphasis on multiple forms of expression. Enlightenment Sunday will highlight the Music Department's Service of Lessons and Carols on 2 December, 8 pm.

The opening service of Spring 2008 focuses on Civil Rights and Human Rights, followed by February's theme Creativity and Transcendence. March addresses Science and Spirituality while April will give attention to Belief and Public Life. Speakers include Cornell Professors Nick Salvatore, Andrew Chignell, Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffman, Ken Reardon and Michele Moody-Adams and emeritus professors Pete Wetherbee and Robert Fay. Guests include Buddhist scholar Jan Willis '69, MA '71, Samite of Uganda and Ben Chaney, brother of James Chaney, slain with Michael Schwerner '61 and Andrew Goodman (son of Cornellians) during the Civil Rights Movement and memorialized in stained glass at the Chapel.

Once a month Africana Sunday services will be held, devoted to the spirituality, concerns and creativity of African-descended communities. A special Labor Day Sunday service on 2 September will center on labor activism, with Prof. Risa Lieberwitz as speaker. In a unique 30 September event Prof. Donald Smith will affirm the blessing animals bring to our lives. In the final service of the year, 4 May, Cornell Provost Biddy "Carolyn" Martin will celebrate the academic year's accomplishments.

This diverse calendar of speakers, conversations, music and art reflects Sage Chapel's support of Cornell's academic mission as a unique locus where spirit and intellect meet.

Parking: Sage Hall South Lot (Johnson School, adjacent to Campus Road);"Sage Avenue" (between Johnson, Barnes and Cornell Store); A.D. White House; Central Avenue (behind Morrill, McGraw, and White)