Our building is closed but we are busier than ever! 25th Anniversary Launch Party on Sunday, January 31, 2021, 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Fun for the entire family! Music! Surprises! Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester will be our special guest. Please wear your 25th Anniversary Pin during the meeting. Connect via video or regular phone. Click here READ MORE »
Adult Education
Opportunities to learn and discuss at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
Racism In America – The History We Did Not Learn In School
Sundays at 1:00 p.m., through January 24, 2021. You are invited to develop a better understanding of how America’s race relations developed. You can find the Zoom.us login info in the email blast from SsAM on Thursday, December 31, but you can also text or call Danny Schweers at 302 475-0998. Call if you need READ MORE »
The Good Book Club
We are reading the Gospel of Mark! Fr. David is inviting all members of SsAM to join him reading the Gospel of Mark during the session of Epiphany. The Good Book Club returns as we read the earliest and shortest of the four gospels through Shrove Tuesday, February 16. The Good Book Club is sponsored READ MORE »
Opening Up the Sunday Scriptures
You are invited — Lectionary Study and Sermon Study, Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m., through February 23, 2021. Father David’s vision for this lectionary/sermon discussion is to meet weekly (via Zoom) to read the appointed scriptures for the coming Sunday and also to reflect on the sermon from the previous week. He sees this as an READ MORE »
SsAM and the COVID-19 Coronovirus Pandemic
12/11/2020: LINKS TO LATEST NEWS about COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic Our church has no plans to re-open soon. Meanwhile, we continue to gather by video and phone. State of Delaware State of Delaware “My Healthy Community” Episcopal Church in Delaware — COVID-19 Response #18: Suspension of In-Person Public Worship Video Streaming Church Services We are broadcasting READ MORE »
Advent Calendar from Friendship House
Barbara Henry and Danny Schweers invite you into their home every evening in December to open the Advent Calendar from Friendship House. Here are fun, interactive activities that will get you and your family into the holiday spirit and involved in the community. Friendship House serves the homeless in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, a ministry strongly READ MORE »
The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage
Fr. David encourages you to read this essay by Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister: In all my years of traveling around the world, one thing has been present in every region, everywhere. One thing has stood out and convinced me of the certain triumph of the great human gamble on equality and justice. Everywhere there are READ MORE »
Grounded in the Eucharist and Prayer
FR. DAVID’S BLOG OF 10/30/2020 — Liturgy and music are so important to our life together. This week I wish to expand on what I said at our recent stewardship webinars. The world in which we live is coming apart. We need only look around and see examples of this fracturing taking place: the devastating READ MORE »
A Conversation about Police Reform and Race, Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 11:15 a.m.
We held a parish-wide conversation about racism in the community on October 25, 2020 Police reform had been the subject of discussion for several weeks by a small group including myself (Fr. David), Canon Casson, Rabbi Krantz, Bebe Coker, and Sam Van Horne. We spent a great deal of time reflecting on the role of READ MORE »
Democracy, Values, and the 2020 Election: A Voter Reflection Guide for Faith Communities.
Here is a Voter Reflection Guide for Faith Communities by Interfaith Power & Light. As people of faith across the country, we believe the 2020 election is a referendum on the values that will shape our future. How can we renew our fragile democracy? How do we honor the human dignity of every person? Will READ MORE »
Howard Thurman Retreat and Follow-Up Discussion
You are invited to participate in an on-line spiritual retreat now and then to discuss the retreat with others at SsAM in October. The Salem Institute on-line retreat is offered free to encourage people spiritually as we fight for racial justice. Lerita Coleman Brown has created this retreat to explore Howard Thurman’s life and contemplative READ MORE »
Imagine Racial Justice: An Interview with Canon Casson
Can you imagine this country being a model to the world for racial justice? In the September 20, 2020 edition of the Delaware Communion Magazine, the Rev. Canon Lloyd Casson was interviewed by Michael Redmond on the topic of racial justice, something for which Canon Casson has been hoping for many decades. He has not READ MORE »
Books About Race, Race Relations, and Racial History – A Bibliography
Here is a list of books and articles that enlighten us about race, race relations, racial history, and related topics. Click here to make a recommendation. Let us know, too, if you want to join SsAM’s Book Discussion Group. Developing a SsAM Bibliography… We are developing a bibliography of books (and articles). In his reflection READ MORE »
Living from our Essence during COVID-19
Fr. David’s blog of 8/14/2020 — For several months I was offering Daily Morning Prayer on Facebook. Each morning at the time for intercessions I offered prayers for those who had died and would die as well as for those who had tested positive and were either in hospital or recovering from home. I would READ MORE »
To Make Ourselves At Home
Here is an invitation to participate in a program offered by my friends, the Rev. Robert Gallagher and Ms. Michelle Heyne from the Order of the Ascension. I hope all members of SsAM will take the time to read what Robert and Michelle are offering to parishes around the country at this time as we READ MORE »
A Toxic Relationship
About 2,000 official and potential Superfund sites — sites contaminated by extremely hazardous chemicals — are located within 25 miles of the East or Gulf Coast. Delaware is in the red zone. As sea levels rise, many of these toxic sites are at risk of flooding. Millions of people live near these sites, and flooding READ MORE »
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge and Other Opportunities
21-Day Racial Equity Challenge, August 17 to September 6 Bishop Brown calls us all to take part in a 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge from August 17 to September 6, 2020. Led by the United Way of Delaware and YWCA Delaware, the challenge is a state-wide journey (never leaving our homes) into the history of racism READ MORE »
Exodus, COVID-19, and Reimaging the Church
— Fr. David’s Blog of 7/17/2020 — Read the Bible in a disciplined manner and ask how God wants us to re-imagine ourselves. One of my spiritual practices is that of sacred reading or Lectio Divina. This ancient practice is a powerful way to enter into the story of scripture by first reading a piece READ MORE »
What Does Freedom Mean?
“Speaking of Freedom” A Letter to the Church from the Revs. Kelly Brown Douglas, Stephanie Spellers and Winnie Varghese July 4, 2020 Our church encourages you to read what three women, all of them Episcopal priests —two of African descent and one of South Indian descent — have to say about what freedom means to READ MORE »
Moving Forward
— Fr. David’s Blog of 7/3/2020 — Nearly 60 members and friends of SsAM met on-line last Sunday to discuss “Repairing The Breach: A Conversation About Racism” with Fr. David, Canon Casson, and Rabbi Douglas Krantz. I was very moved by the strong attendance and insightful commentary. As was said often during this Zoom video-conference READ MORE »
