Rooke Chapel provides Childcare during our Gospel Residency from 11am-12pm

The 2025-26 Rooke Chapel Gospel Music Fellowship offers current master's or doctoral students (and recent graduates) the opportunity to cultivate the Gospel music tradition within a vibrant, multicultural University worship setting. The fellow leads, in collaboration with the Protestant chaplain and director of music, weekend residencies open to students, staff, faculty and the local community through the course of the academic year, which are designed to teach, explore and celebrate Gospel music. Rooke Chapel is pleased to welcome back Rev. Angela Jones as our 2025-2026 Gospel Music Fellow! The Rev. Angela Jones is a Howard University School of Divinity graduate and gospel recording artist who has performed with genre Billboard-charting artists such as Richard Smallwood, Yolanda Adams, Bebe Winans, Marvin Sapp, Brandon Camphor & OneWay, to name a few. Her singing group, Brandon Camphor & One Way, has been nominated for Stellar Awards, has been included on Billboard's top-30 chart four times, and has received three Wammie Awards. Jones currently serves as minister of worship arts at Word For Life Church Ministries in Maryland. In 2024-25 Rev. Jones served as the Rooke Chapel Gospel Music Fellow and we look forward to welcoming her back to Bucknell. Join us Saturdays 2pm-4pm for rehearsals and Sunday 11am-12pm. Learn more about Rev. Angela here: https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/diversity-equity-inclusion/religious-spiritual-life/rooke-chapel/rooke-chapel-gospel-music-fellowship (https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/diversity-equity-inclusion/religious-spiritual-life/rooke-chapel/rooke-chapel-gospel-music-fellowship) Contact chapel@bucknell.edu with any questions. Co-sponsored by the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life, the Rooke Chapel Congregation, The Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives & Cultures, the Bucknell University Choir, and Voice Lab. Rooke Chapel values inclusion and is committed to ensuring accessibility. To request an accommodation or for questions about accessibility, please contact chapel@bucknell.edu or dial 711 for TDD/TTY.

Directed by Bucknell Theatre alum Brooke Echnat '21In the near future, Stella and her fiancé, Bryan, are waiting at their remote cabin for Stella's estranged twin sister, Cassie. Raised by their astronaut father to be NASA scientists, the twins have taken different paths: Cassie has just returned from a successful moon mission, while Stella left NASA behind. When Cassie arrives, old conflicts reignite, forcing the sisters to choose between life on Earth or pursuing a future in space, as humanity's fate hangs in the balance. WALDEN is a thrilling and engrossing new play that wrestles between the gravitational pulls of duty and desire.