Some of you are new here. If you are...welcome! If you are a new student, a particular welcome to you. After all, this is your Chapel. I want you to feel...what is it I want you to feel?

I almost said, "This is your Chapel and I want you all to feel right at home." That's what I almost said. "I want you to make yourself at home, comfortable."

But it's hard to feel that way in Duke Chapel. The place is big, real big, and dark, real dark, and the organ plays loud, real loud, and the preacher is up, way up.

Makes you feel small, doesn't it? The space dominates you overwhelms, overpowers sight and sense. Big Duke Chapel, little you, even smaller me. That's right, even though I work here, have been here for a while, the place still steps on me, overpowers me, even on Mondays, but especially …