A Gentle Evening at Southwestern

For the past several years, it’s been an honor to cover Southwestern University’s Candlelight Service for the Season of Advent.  Each year, in early-December, two services are held in Lois Perkins Chapel.   I attended the first service last evening.   This annual service began one hundred years ago this year.  In its first year, 1915,  it was called the Christmas Carol Service, then under the guidance of Mrs. C.M. Bishop, wife of University President Bishop, with help from Laura Kuykendall, teacher and expression, later to become the Dean of Women.   If I’m stressed, or sad, this peaceful gathering is a somnolent balm for the senses.