Dear Epiphany, “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus out Lord” (Rom 8:38-39)… not even COVID-19, and the necessary restrictions our common
Alleluia is our Song! Choral Music in the Second Wave
Join us at Virtual Epiphany this Thanksgiving
Dear Epiphany, Thanksgiving will be different this year. It will be our Thanksgiving in the Great Timeout, and, well, at least for me, that is a hard thing to be thankful for. At the very least, this plague is what is keeping so many of us apart on what is normally a holiday of friends
Welcome to our New Website
Dear Epiphany, Welcome to EpiphanySeattle.org. We have a new website. It was built to be an online spiritual center of gravity around which your spiritual journey can orbit. This has been a project with a long, long gestation period; that said, I think it came into being at just the right time. Why would I
Juneteenth: A Day to Honor God’s Promised Jubilee
Dear Epiphany, The Hebrew people laid claim to the idea that no one should spend a lifetime in servitude. The entire Jewish tradition is built on the story of their emancipation from the yoke of slavery under the Egyptians. To this day, the Jewish people remember and celebrate their liberation. And so, they proclaimed: “You
George Floyd, COVID-19, and The Great Timeout
Dear Epiphany, From the early days of the stay-at-home order, I have been referring to this time of COVID-19 as the Great Timeout. The name came, of course, from my experience as a parent, sending my children to timeout to consider what they had done, and not come out until they were ready to apologize
Pentecost 2020
Dear Epiphany, Happy Pentecost. This service serves to bracket the season of Easter. It began at the Great Vigil, where the light of Christ was brought into the Church, and it ends today with that light of Christ being carried out into the world. You are the Church that brings this light into the world.