Naming a Reality and Now What?
I recently came across an article that dealt with something I have been seeing for a while now – growing and deepening differences and disagreements among evangelical Christians. The article […]
Epiphany Star Newsletter for June and July 2021
“Red Eyed Time-Travelers,” Baptism Sunday schedule for July 11, “Jesus and our Babies,” social distancing ends at church, communion is now being offered with wine, Marriage Ministry goes for a […]
New “Mask-Optional” Service at Epiphany
As State and Federal guidance has changed and COVID continues to recede in Northern Virginia, Epiphany is adapting its Sunday worship patterns. Our 8:30 service is now “mask optional” in […]
A Word About the CDC Announcement and Epiphany
Friends, you may remember how quickly things changed from “almost normal” to a totally different world during a week in March of 2020 as the pandemic began. It seems that […]
Now the Green Blade Rises: An Easter Visit to Arlington
There is an Easter hymn that when I first heard it, seemed a bit obscure. The first verse goes. Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain, Wheat that […]
Star Newsletter for April and May 2021
A Visit to Arlington, Easter at Epiphany, Coates Food Ministry Up and Running, Social Media Team Begins Work, Expanded In-Person Worship Schedule at Epiphany, Missionary Update from Belgium.
Holy Week and Easter At Epiphany
All Holy Week and Easter Services will be offered in-person and via livestream this year. Our schedule is: Maundy Thursday (Tenebrae): 7pm in-person and livestream Good Friday: Noon and 7pm […]
Expanding In-Person Worship at Epiphany
For more than a year, Epiphany’s 10:15 Sunday worship service has been “livestream only.” With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines advancing rapidly, we are going to change that starting on […]
When There is Nothing Good to Say…
I wrote a couple of weeks ago in the Candle newsletter about how we lost my wife Andrea’s father, David, in late January. He died from a brain injury he sustained […]
Epiphany Star Newsletter for February and March
When There is Nothing Good to Say to Jesus: Fr. Peter writes about what it feels like when we pray and the miracle doesn’t happen. Ash Wednesday: We will have […]