Spiritual & Religious
Beloved Community is Emory’s progressive, ecumenical Protestant worshipping community. Beloved Community’s membership includes currently registered Emory undergraduate students, but others are invited to join in worship and activities, including graduate/professional students, faculty, staff, and members of the wider community. A central value of Beloved community is contextualizing our faith within the current sociocultural context. People of all racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds are welcomed and affirmed. Beloved Community cultivates a sense of belonging through worship and lunch together after our services. We foster an inclusive environment through the diversity of voices we lift up each week.
Beloved Community has its roots in a tradition of University Worship that began at Emory in the late 1960s during an important time of racial integration. It was felt at the time that there were not worship opportunities in the local area that were deeply inclusive of people of all races, and so the Emory university chaplain and students began University Worship. The community has always maintained a progressive, inclusive Christian worshipping community, which in time grew to include the full inclusion of LGBTQIA+ members in this Christian community. As Emory has broadened in its religious diversity, the community adopted the more modest name of “Beloved Community,” echoing a central theological concept for The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, Beloved Community continues to offer the only regular Protestant worship service in Emory’s Cannon Chapel on Sunday mornings during the academic term. It is a link to Emory’s United Methodist heritage that welcomes all into creative and ecumenical Christian worship that is intended to center the needs of current Emory students. Preachers come from the Emory community, including students, as well as prominent guests. Other aspects of our organization’s life include fellowship meals, Bible studies, retreats, the celebration of major Christian holidays and seasons, and works of service and social justice.
Beloved Community has its roots in a tradition of University Worship that began at Emory in the late 1960s during an important time of racial integration. It was felt at the time that there were not worship opportunities in the local area that were deeply inclusive of people of all races, and so the Emory university chaplain and students began University Worship. The community has always maintained a progressive, inclusive Christian worshipping community, which in time grew to include the full inclusion of LGBTQIA+ members in this Christian community. As Emory has broadened in its religious diversity, the community adopted the more modest name of “Beloved Community,” echoing a central theological concept for The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today, Beloved Community continues to offer the only regular Protestant worship service in Emory’s Cannon Chapel on Sunday mornings during the academic term. It is a link to Emory’s United Methodist heritage that welcomes all into creative and ecumenical Christian worship that is intended to center the needs of current Emory students. Preachers come from the Emory community, including students, as well as prominent guests. Other aspects of our organization’s life include fellowship meals, Bible studies, retreats, the celebration of major Christian holidays and seasons, and works of service and social justice.
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