Welcome to King's Chapel
A note from the Rev. Arakawa:
King’s Chapel just celebrated its 325th year.
It is clear that since its founding the church has gone against the grain—irritating 17th century Puritans, who sought to build a (their) “city on the hill,” disappointing 18th century Anglicans, who required bishops to ordain their own and make decisions about changes in the Book of Common Prayer, articulating a fresh ecumenical Christian theology open to “Trinitarians, Unitarians, Calvinists and Arminians,” transforming our governance from episcopal to congregational by the early 20th century, upholding our worship in a secularized denomination and society, and welcoming increasingly diverse members and friends in recent years.
Today we are no different; or, rather, we remain quite different from the religious landscape in which we happen to find ourselves. We are a unique congregation that in a technological age celebrates formal worship through prayer, sermon and song, articulates an open and progressive faith in which science and the scientific study of the Bible are taken seriously, cares about the spiritual formation of our children and youth, is committed to social service as well as action for the neediest, and tries to live out our Covenant, which binds our members: “In the love of the truth, and the spirit of Jesus Christ, we unite for the worship of God and the service of man [humankind].”
We welcome you to join us for worship, and to become a part of a different kind of church. We invite you to be a part of our next 325 years.
In faith,
The Rev. Dianne Arakawa
Interim Senior Minister