Worship God with us this Sunday at 8:00 and 10:30am. Our 10:30 a.m. services are broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook, and are available afterwards on-demand, to watch as your schedule allows. Prayer Services Three Times Every Weekday, Monday through Friday at 8am, 5pm and 8pm via video. Click here to see our ambitious schedule READ MORE »
Adult Education
Meditations and teachings plus upcoming Adult Education opportunities at SsAM — the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
First Friday Walks for Justice and Peace in Wilmington, Delaware
The next walks are on first Fridays, December 1 and January 5, 5:30pm and begin in the SsAM parking lot, 713 N. Shipley Street. Join us for a peaceful, prayerful walk through the center of Wilmington to promote an end to racial and social and other injustices. We gather in the SsAM parking lot with READ MORE »
Offspring of Inspiration
A reflection by Danny Schweers for December 10, 2023. In my wife’s studio, geometry and color catch my eye. A glance is all it takes. Out comes my camera. As usual, the finished photo barely resembles the brief vision that inspired it. As philosophers have long observed, images cannot capture reality any more than words READ MORE »
Wonderful Time of the Year?
Reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for November 26, 2023. Thursday was Thanksgiving and for most of us that is the beginning of the holiday season. It is sometimes hard to remember that with all the Christmas decorations coming out in October, but I like to remember the holidays of my childhood. Thanksgiving was so important READ MORE »
Connected To Jesus
A reflection by Danny Schweers for November 19, 2023. One way to connect to Jesus is to visit the Holy Land, to walk where He walked, to feel the water of the Jordan river against your skin, perhaps to drink the same water He drank from the Samaritan woman’s well, or to breathe the same READ MORE »
It’s Not Even Lent and I’m Talking about Fast-ing?
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for November 12, 2023. Life moves at warp speed for many of us. So many have-to’s, so many must-do’s, so many want-to’s, so many didn’t do’s…so many shoulds, coulds, woulds … so little time. How do we know how to prioritize what is most important? How can we stop READ MORE »
A Family for Every Child
Reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for November 5, 2023. Here it is November. Halloween has passed, Thanksgiving is coming, and Christmas is looming. In addition to all this, we celebrate National Adoption Month. Most of you know that this is a time near and dear to Dan’s heart and my own. All year, we focus READ MORE »
God Our Gardener
A reflection by Danny Schweers for October 29, 2023. The more I garden, the more I learn to be gardened. Imagination is needed. I do not claim to be a good gardener. Mostly I just cut and trim, trying to keep the plants in the yard under control. I wield clippers and loppers, mower and READ MORE »
Racial Justice and Reconciliation in Delaware
Racial and Social Justice Discussions Norwood Coleman presents videos and hosts discussions of topics related to peace, justice, and race. To ask for the Zoom login credentials, click here to use the Contact Us form on this website. At each session we plan to have a SsAM member who participated in the event as part READ MORE »
Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate
“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” —The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for Sunday, October 23, 2023. As the world spins in chaos, this quote brings me back READ MORE »
Hope Springs Eternal
A reflection for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, October 15, 2023 by Mary Lou Edgar “Hope” is an interesting word. It gets used about as often as “faith”. It is one of those nebulous, semi-religious words that dares a friend (or relative) to question what you are saying. I know what I’m talking about. I had faith and READ MORE »
Three Downtown Encounters
A reflection by Danny Schweers for October 8, 2023. As I exit Starbucks, mocha latte in hand, my attention goes to the fellow on the sidewalk across the street. He is yelling and cursing, kicking the storefront walls in his anger, creating a clamor, a very public rage. It is quite a display, one seldom READ MORE »
Let us again be as children
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good… nothing is too difficult for children. ― Madeleine L’Engle* READ MORE »
What Un-forgivable is still Forgivable?
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for September 10, 2023. What do you pray for? Who? In a Canadian murder mystery series I’ve been reading, when I should be doing other things, one of the regular characters is an elderly, eccentric ~ and/or crazy ~ but brilliant poet named Ruth. She is famous for being READ MORE »
SsAM: The Bite-Sized Korean Snack
A reflection by Danny Schweers for September 17, 2023. Because “The Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew” is such a mouthful of words, my church calls itself “SsAM”. It is a short bite-sized word. The second “s” is silent, so it sounds just like “SAM”, a name with many favorable connections: Yosemite Sam, Play READ MORE »
Are We Conserving God’s Gifts?
Reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for September 3, 2023. Recently, my immediate family had the opportunity to visit my extended family on the Virginia/West Virginia border. In other words, in Appalachia. I remember the first time I realized that this is a poor part of our country. It was when John Kennedy ran for president, READ MORE »
It Is Enough For Us
A reflection by Danny Schweers for August 27, 2023. It is enough for us to gather the crumbs under God’s table. We do not need to sit at the feast and enjoy the food and fellowship. Just give us the leftovers, the scraps. We are daring just to ask for that! We can eat by READ MORE »
Amazing Grace in Action
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for August 20, 2023. Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement … get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be READ MORE »
Transition – An Essay
Reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for August 13, 2023. Right now, for the people at SsAM, transition is a powerful word. We waited to hear who our new rector would be, and now we know. There are so many Biblical stories of waiting for messengers from God. So many of the messengers struggle. We need READ MORE »
In Retirement
A reflection by Danny Schweers for August 6, 2023. I am sharp witted in the morning and slow thinking in the afternoon. Right now, as I write this reflection in the evening, my mind can only plod along, writing down a word and wondering what the next one will be. There are times when my READ MORE »
