The word Advent is Latin meaning ‘arrival’. Advent is a season marked by waiting for God’s arrival. It is a season of anticipation and hope that God will show up. We mark this season by looking back at the prophets of old, considering their hope-filled foretelling...
Dear brothers and sisters, I write these words with a heavy heart as I reflect on the images that came to us earlier today from our nation’s capital. After some time in prayer and in Scripture, I want to share with you a couple of the things that God pressed upon my...
Dear friends, It is with hope that the Emmaus Church Council has decided to move forward into the next phase of our sanctuary re-entry plan for corporate worship on Sunday mornings. While this phase will feel different than normal in many ways, we are excited to...
A response to the actions of the President in front of St. John’s Church On Monday, June 1, President Trump walked from the White House to a cleared Lafayette Square where he posed for pictures for the media at St. John’s Episcapal Church while holding a bible. This...
The last week of horrific, heartbreaking and unsettling events have shifted the ground underneath all of us. The protests and the uprising around the world including Minneapolis in response to George Floyd’s and other’s murders at the hands of police and the...
Reading for Learning and Loving Reading List: Children’s Books Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney The lives of ten Black women activists are featured in an incredible story about courage in the face of oppression; about the...
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