This Sunday, Claire Hitchins will lead us in a Taizé service. This beautiful form of contemplative worship was first developed in Taizé, France. It emphasizes simple phrases sung in a chant or canon, often in multiple languages. Read more about Taizé here.

Claire Hitchins (she/her) is a third-year Master of Divinity candidate at Vanderbilt Divinity School where she is widening her imagination around how churches and faith leaders can resist oppressive systems and theologies, and better serve the healing, repair and liberation for which all of creation groans. Claire received her BA in Religious Studies from The University of Virginia in 2013. After working for a food justice non profit in Richmond and serving with Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest in Yakima, Washington, she returned to Charlottesville to be a member of Charis Community 2016-2019. Claire and her partner Julio are finishing up a yearlong residency at Casa Alma, Charlottesville’s Catholic Worker Community, before moving to Nashville this August.