Welcome to 8th Day Faith Community
An Ecumenical Church

How Do We Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land?

The Eighth Day Faith Community meets for worship at 10 AM Sunday mornings in the main room at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd NW in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood of Washington DC.  Click here for details and Covid restrictions. The service will also be available on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5320553902.

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We are a small, diverse ecumenical church with members from different faith backgrounds and ways of expressing our faith. We hold in common the desire to follow Jesus through peacemaking, work for justice (especially economic justice), and environmental sanity. All are welcome, regardless of faith (or lack of it), religious background, age, gender, sexual orientation, wealth (or lack of it), ethnicity, or any other characteristic that ordinarily separates us from one another. We are open and affirming and value the differences among us. Check us out!

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Most Recent Teachings Available

Hearing the Voice of God

Deacon Sally Ethelston
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Sally Ethelston
March 17, 2024
Texts:
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Psalm 51:1-13
Hebrews 5:5-10
John 12:20-33
Lord, grant us grace to love what you command and to desire what you promise — that we may hear your voice. Señor, concédenos la gracia de amar lo que mandas y desear lo que prometes, para que podamos escuchar tu voz. Amen.
Good morning! My name is Sally, and I am here with Idalia and Don Valerio of the Vestry, and with Ana and Charles of San Mateo / St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Hyattsville, Maryland. Ana and I are members of the group working on what we call the bathroom project at San Mateo. It’s wonderful to be here with you.
It’s also great to be back in my old neighborhood! I lived for several years on Lanier Place and before that in several other places in Adams Morgan and Mt Pleasant — altogether, more than ten years between 1983 and 1995. And from 1997 to 2022, when I was ordained a Deacon here in the Diocese of Washington, I was a member of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, at 16th and Newton Streets.

Everlasting Life

Meade Hanna

Today I want to wrestle with 3 biblical concepts that I have felt are often confusing.
The concept of being “Born Again”
The Crucifixion and the cross. I found myself hesitating to put a cross on a Lenten quilt a few weeks ago, asking myself, what is the cross’s significance?
Eternal Life and the Kingdom of Heaven or the Heavenly world of God
John 3:1-21 has all of these main themes and they have shown themselves to me as interconnected.
“Born Again” is a cultural phenomenon where I am from, Memphis, TN. At least in the white churches I occasioned, once you believed through some change of your thought or belief, in that moment you were part of a community, you were given belonging, even privilege or access you had not had before. The result was effectively that you label yourself as a born-again Christian and claim membership to a church home whether you go or not. It is Southern conformity and access to belonging that does not necessitate Christian growth beyond your first conversion story. Black churches in Memphis may have some of the same phenomenon, but the facts are that Memphis is one of the cities in the poorest and blackest five states in our nation where I imagine that black churches are more about being places of safety and solidarity and communal resources in the face of active inequity regarding real life access to money, land, and physical safety.