A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for June 11, 2023. Recently I read the best-selling book, Demon Copperhead, written by a Pulitzer Prize winning author, Barbara Kingsolver. Many warned me that this book was disturbing and that I would not enjoy it. However, that was not true. There were many themes in the book but 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.
Vikings, Grimaces, and Cobble Stones
A reflection by Danny Schweers for June 2, 2023. As Vikings cheered, riders grimaced their way over the cobblestones and up Monkey Hill. The event was the first day of the Wilmington Gran Prix. Men, women, and children raced their bicycles about five kilometers around Brandywine Park, ending at the top of Van Buren Street READ MORE »
Sickle Cell Disease Ministry
2023-06-19 — Shine the Light on Sickle Cell. During the last 18 months, SsAM members and others have met, emailed, shared a Zoom call, or worked together on a project related to the Congregational Health Network for patients and families managing sickle cell disease at Nemours Children’s Health in Wilmington, Delaware. Click here to see READ MORE »
Boysie Lowery Living Jazz Residency at SsAM
The “Boysie” Lowery Living Jazz Residency at SsAM is a two-week artist residency created to provide space to grow for the next generation of jazz artists who are both composers and performers. Residents experience an intense learning experience designed to help them find their sound, mature as musicians, and make lasting connections with like-minded peers. READ MORE »
Get Fired Up!
A reflection for Pentecost by Christina Brennan Lee, May 26, 2023. Today we are blasé. Too many in our own SsAM real or virtual pews aren’t reading this E-Blast or Weekly Vision at all. We show up at our preferred appointed hour and go home, or watch online and don’t read what arrives in hand, READ MORE »
We Never Know
A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for May 21, 2023. Mother’s Day is a day when I am incredibly grateful but also aware of all the mothers who have suffered extreme losses. The day after Mother’s Day, I woke up to realize that a dear friend, the former President of Neumann University, a person for READ MORE »
Self-Righteous Certitude
A reflection by Danny Schweers for May 14, 2023. Towards the end of his book, Spying on the South, Tony Horwitz says that self-righteous certitude is one of the great ills affecting our country, left wing or right wing. What appalled him was the self-congratulatory attitudes he encountered in people who were not only certain READ MORE »
Reflection: A Pause for Effect? Psalm 61:4
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for May 7, 2023. -Let me abide in your tent forever, find refuge under the shelter of your wings. Selah New RSV -I will abide in Your tabernacle forever; I will trust in the shelter of Your wings. Selah New KJV -I will dwell in thy Tabernacle forever, and READ MORE »
Peggy Shane Memorial Library
The Peggy Shane Memorial Library was dedicated on May 7, 2023. This is a curated selection of books that Peggy Shane read as part of a book group that continues to update the collection. If you have a book that you believe should be part of this collection, please click here to contact the church administrator. READ MORE »
The Joy of Palm Sunday
A reflection by Danny Schweers for April 2, 2023. “Poignant” may be the word I am looking for to describe the triumphal entry by Jesus into Jerusalem just a week before he was crucified. I recognize the joy in the story but I cannot hear it without also anticipating the suffering that follows. The people READ MORE »
Open Heart Surgery
A reflection by Danny Schweers — After open heart surgery yesterday, my friend is doing well, thank God! Even at 84, he was fit enough to qualify for the procedure, perhaps because he has been a runner and a distance walker. At the same time, I pray for all those not doing well after their READ MORE »
Depending On Faith Alone
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee for March 5, 2023. For the Sunday and also the Daily Lectionary (appointed readings), we are given an Old Testament passage, a Psalm, an Epistle (a New Testament Letter which can be left out), and, of course, a reading from the Gospel. They are generally arranged with a common READ MORE »
Choosing What To Do
A reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for the First Week of Lent 2023. It seems impossible that it is already Lent. The year is going by quickly or possibly I am just getting older. I have been reading a great deal by Richard Rohr and although I am struggling a bit as it is new READ MORE »
The Best Words
A reflection by Danny N. Schweers for February 19, 2023. My wife’s dog waits at the front gate, her gaze fixed on the empty driveway, intently watching for the joyous moment when her mistress will return. Unlike her dog, my wife’s husband exhibits no such display of longing and devotion. He is not kneeling in READ MORE »
An Accounting
Reflection by Christina Brennan Lee on the Rev. Absalom Jones for 10 February 2023. You must before your God appear to give an account of your transactions, and how you spent your time, when here.” ~ The Rev. Absalom Jones On Cedar Beach Road (DE Route 36), just 0.2 miles from Delaware Route 1, near READ MORE »
The Extraordinary Life of Rosetta Henderson
An interview with Rosetta Henderson and a digital exhibit exploring her life and accomplishments is now at the Hagley Museum and Library. This January 2023 addition to the museum’s archives is part of the its oral history project recognizing Black STEM Pioneers in Delaware. With advanced degrees in chemistry, Henderson pursued a career in research READ MORE »
Reflection – This Is For The Birds!
A reflection by Christina Brennan Lee on 2023-01-24. I’ve wanted a bird feeder for as long as I’ve lived in my current home, over 14 years. I love waking to the sound of birdsongs when I have the window open and throughout the day. I’ve had feeders in various places I’ve lived and they always READ MORE »
Reflection on Winter – A Time to Slow Down
A reflection for February 5, 2023 by Mary Lou Edgar. It is hard to believe that we are in the middle of winter. We have had many nice days and although there have been – and will be – some very cold days, it is a time to enjoy some of the changes that the READ MORE »
Reflection – Things kept going wrong but that didn’t bother us.
A reflection by Danny Schweers for January 29, 2023. Why did our companionship, in spite of events, continue as cheerfully as ever? Why didn’t our spirits sink? First, the Uber driver’s map app took him to the other side of Central Park from where we were actually waiting in the dark and the cold. Then, READ MORE »
The Importance of Traditions
Reflection by Mary Lou Edgar for January 15, 2023 In our family we celebrate non-stop from Halloween until President’s Day. While that may sound extreme to many of you, we have birthdays, days when people entered our family, and the traditional events such as Thanksgiving, New Years, and of course Christmas. Each year as I READ MORE »
