• Mary Cushing’s Sermon – July 21, 2024
    July 22, 2024 |     No Comments

    Sermon for Pentecost 9B, 21 July 2024 Mary Cushing, Candidate for the Vocational Diaconate St. Thomas Episcopal Church, McLean, VA   “For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us.” Eph 2:14   That verse, v. 14 from our s…

  • The Great Litany
    February 15, 2024 |     No Comments

    When Lent rolls around, everyone notices. The altar becomes bare, our priests become purple, we become penitent, and our liturgy becomes focused on sin, death, and spiritual renewal. At St. Thomas, we appreciate the penitence but like to lean heavily into the spiritual renewal piece. Lent leads us to the cross and the empty…

  • Partners in Evangelism
    February 6, 2024 |     No Comments

    St. Thomas has partnered with the 501c3 non-profit, Shakespeare Opera Theater, as part of our community engagement and evangelism efforts. With each press release and review, St. Thomas is provided free promotion and is associated with positive developments in our community. By serving as a host and performance venue we are…

  • Join us for a Pilgrimage to the UK in September 2024
    January 10, 2024 |     No Comments

    The Christian faith arrived in England in the latter part of the 4th Century. By the 5th century, Christianity was also established in what we now call Scotland and Ireland. Learning about these early Christians and their histories were my favorite stories when I studied Church History in seminary.   We have worked wit…

  • Shrine Mont is my spirit animal
    October 12, 2023 |     No Comments

    In my childhood I went to many “church camps” where we did age appropriate things, sang songs where we clapped a lot, ran around like savages, painted ourselves with mud and fought each other with sticks for who would be the leader. I know that sounds like Lord of the Flies, and it definitely was. Kids were allowed to run a…

  • Disaster Relief in Morocco and Libya
    September 14, 2023 |     No Comments

    I’m continuing to follow news from Morocco through Kristi Roberts’ Facebook page. For those of you who missed the news, Kristi, Clark and Annelise are safe in Rabat. One of our preschool teachers is a native of Morocco and she also reports that all of her family is safe.   As you probably know the damage in the most af…

  • Midweek Worship
    August 31, 2023 |     No Comments

    Did you know that most weekdays (except for Fridays) we worship in our sanctuary at noon?   On Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, we pray Noonday Prayer together. This simple service is found in the Book of Common Prayer on pages 103-107. If there is a saint’s remembrance assigned to the day, we substitute that psalm,…

  • Joining the Religious Community of Francis and Clare
    August 3, 2023 |     No Comments

    “It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.” ~ St. Francis of Assisi   You may have noticed a change to my name in the service bulletin. That is because I have joined the Religious Community of Francis and Clare, and have started the journey to be a Franciscan Friar.   What is a f…

  • Introducing the Education for Ministry Program
    July 27, 2023 |     No Comments

    For anyone interested in exploring their faith more deeply, read on!  Education for Ministry (EfM) is a program to help laity deepen their “book learning”–in Scripture, church history, theology, and ethics–and to explore how it all relates to contemporary life through the process of theological reflection.  Participants e…

  • Bourdain’s Burger
    July 20, 2023 |     No Comments

    In one of my recent trips down the YouTube rabbit hole, I happened upon some clips from Dr. Aaron Higashi, a biblical scholar who is active on social media, seeking to present scholarly takes on scripture in a way that is digestible to those of us lay people who are not in academia. His videos take on many different topics…



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