Every year at my alma mater, Anderson University, there are two weeks with double the campus chapels.  One of these, Impact Your World Week, is often headed by a guest speaker on campus.  Instead, in 2016, our campus pastor, Todd Faulker, who is moving on to become a full time professor in the School of Theology in the Fall, headlined a chapel series called To Chapel and Back Again.

Pastor Todd, as we all know, loves Lord of the Rings.  He often quotes or references the series in chapels, even eight years ago when I was a studen and he began his tenure as campus pastor.  For To Chapel and Back Again, he chose specific scenes from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy as illustrations for his four sermons that week.

In November, he put a shout out on Twitter to AU alum asking to share their favorite AU Chapel Lord of the Rings stories, or favorite Impact Your World Week stories, and then shared what his plan was for the series.  A friend and classmate of mine threw that tweet at me and said "you should help."