Dear Ones, As we gathered for the second day of the 108th Convention of the Diocese of Olympia in SeaTac, the news began to come that yet again, gun violence had taken the lives of innocent people, and yet again, inside a house of worship. We now know that the massacre at the Tree of […]
Dear Ones, My heart, as I am sure yours does, breaks as I hear the news coming out of Texas this weekend. During this Sunday’s services at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, a 26-year-old white male entered the building and killed at least 27 individuals, injuring others. While the details are still […]
Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Orcas Island is a reconciling, affirming, and inclusive Christian community striving through worship and prayer, study and formation, compassion and service, fellowship and community to welcome all people just as God created you. No matter where you are on your journey of faith, and whether you are single, married, divorced, separated, […]
Summer is here and so is vacation! Please contact Tom Murdock for more information about the Centering Prayer schedule.
In 1861, with civil war raging in our country, and in his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln closed that address with these words. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every […]
Dear Ones, Once again our generation is witness to senseless killing from hands that should not have had such simple and easy access to guns, especially guns built for war with excessive killing power. Such guns have no place on our streets. We witness yet again radicalized and misused religion as well, focused on hate […]
Heading out to church early Sunday morning I was hazily aware of what had happened in Orlando. Throughout the day I gathered more and more information about the appalling attack but I felt myself strangely detached and numb, very different from other occasions of barbaric acts of terror where I felt deep emotions arise of […]
Our new online directory is being launched through the CTRN web site, the organization which manages the web site, and is ready for members to view and edit their profiles as well as upload pictures. Parishioners will be receiving an email next week from CTRN that will give you login information and directions to confirm […]
Emmanuel Episcopal Parish invites you to a twelve session introductory series on Islam. We will gather to watch a half hour video presentation by Prof John Esposito, Ph.D. from Georgetown University followed by a group discussion for another half hour. The purpose of this series is to help us understand this important world religion, it’s […]
Dear Ones, You’ve seen it on the news. You’ve heard about it on the radio. Maybe you’ve heard from friends or family in the crisis areas, smelled the smoke or driven through an area of our State on fire. Currently 25 fires large and small are listed as active in our state, affecting approximately 486,000 […]