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Wednesday, November 5, 2025 |
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Adeline Blanchard Tyler was the first deaconess in the Episcopal Church. She provided nursing care, religious and practical education, material support and advocacy to Baltimore's newly established St. Andrews Infirmary. Along with Carrie Guild, Eveline Black, and Catherine Minard they became known as the United Deaconesses of Maryland. During the American Civil War she was once accused of being a "Rebel sympathizer" merely because she treated wounded Union and Confederate patients with equal care and compassion. |
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 |
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Our saint this week is King Alfred the Great, the Anglo-Saxon monarch who stemmed several Nordic invasions, converted many of his enemies to Christianity, advanced the education and well-being of Christian clergy, and incorporated Mosaic Law into the British legal system to afford greater protections for his subjects. To date, he is the only British monarch to carry "the Great" in his title. |
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 |
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Junior Warden Val Tucker recaps a trip to Shrine Mont's 2025 Fall Camp. |
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
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Reverend William Carey was an English missionary, Reformed Baptist minister, translator, social reformer, and cultural anthropologist. Fluent in more than a dozen languages, he founded India’s first theological university to offer divinity degrees, co-founded Serampore Press (which published in 44 languages and/or dialects), and advocated successfully for laws abolishing infanticide and the practice of suttee (burning widows alive on their husband's funeral pyre). |
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Saturday, October 18, 2025 |
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The Rev. Kevin Laskowski delivers the invocation kicking off Centreville Day 2025. |
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Thursday, October 16, 2025 |
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Stay safe online, and avoid scams over email and text. |
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 |
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"Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone," said our featured saint for the week Edith Cavell. Cavell was a woman of intense faith who treated soldiers on both sides of World War I. She was arrested and shot by firing squad for her ministry. |
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 |
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William Tyndale was famously a translator of the Bible into English. Tyndale's translations were the first English Scriptures to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, the first English translation to take advantage of the printing press, the first of the new English Bibles of the Reformation, and the first English translation to use Jehovah ("Iehouah") as God's name. His life's effort, however, was seen as threatening to the powers-that-be, and he was eventually executed in 1536. |
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025 |
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Our featured saint for the week is Anna Ellison Butler Alexander, daughter of emancipated enslaved parents who became the first woman of color to be consecrated as a deaconess in The Episcopal Church. Despite racial prejudice even within the church and her own diocese, she persevered and flourished, serving the Diocese of Georgia all but two years of her adult life. |
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 |
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