Announcements

This week, the world is ablaze in a firestorm of anger and rage. Although reasons are obscure, muddled, and confusing, I would suggest that the twin traumas of pandemic and racially charged deaths have led to expressions of pent-up frustration and fear. Much of the rage seems unspecific, directed at an unknown target. Unaware of the root of their anger, some lash out indiscriminately, taking down innocent bystanders in their wake. Others seize the moment for their own purposes. …
Read more: Pastoral Letter to Pohick Church

At-Home Vacation Bible School

This year Pohick will have a virtual At-Home Vacation Bible School program due to the Covid-19 virus. Volunteers and staff will miss seeing all the children sing, laugh, learn, and grow together this summer at VBS. Still, Pohick hopes it can offer children, ages 3 years to 6th grade, the very best alternative with this At-Home VBS program, Knights of North Castle!

Preregistration is required. Read more and register in the VBS Registration Form (PDF Download).

Recent Sermons

The first chapter of Genesis emphasizes that humankind is created in God’s own image – and that humankind is “good.” Images deeply influence how we are formed. The God we imagine is the God we emulate. In cultivating our “religious imagination,” we contemplate the essence of our Creator, and we become like Him. Yes, as lofty and improbable as it sounds, you and I were created to look like and act like our Trinitarian God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- in a dynamic, eternal relationship of mutual love.…
Read the sermon: Made in God’s Own Image, Humankind Is Good

If you’ve travelled to the Holy Land, maybe you’ve seen the desert monastery perched precariously on the edge of a steep cliff near Jericho. You may have wondered why on earth those early monks would choose such an inhospitable, practically unreachable, place to build a place of prayer.

In one direction, all you see for miles are sand and rocks, with shimmering heat waves rippling over the horizon. Wild animals lurk there. In another direction is the distant Dead Sea, where nothing lives. …
Read the sermon: Solidarity with Jesus in the Wilderness

“Do you know Jesus Christ? Have you accepted him as your Lord and Savior? Are you born again? Do you believe the Word of God is inerrant?”

If we’re Cradle Episcopalians, or former Roman Catholics, mainline Protestant or agnostic, then this rather personal, romantic line of questioning about how we experience the Holy might make us squirm. We might become a bit defensive, even critical. On the other hand, if you come from an Evangelical or non-denominational background, questions about practicing the liturgical, sacramental life seem a bit stilted and rigid. … What if fully experiencing the Holy calls us to stand between the two extremes? …
Read the sermon: Experiencing the Holy Through Lenses of Transcendence and Immanence

Once again, rockets fly back and forth between Gaza and Israel. People are injured and killed daily, and terror reigns. We can’t help wondering if the time is coming when the rockets are finally able to reach the Holy City of Jerusalem. Some worry that Christ’s second coming is imminent. But haven’t we always, in every age? …"
Read the sermon: Time Matters

As our family toured Italy this summer, our daughters marveled over the sheer volume of paintings and sculptures of Christ and the Saints. As the girls observed their lives through generations of art and story, “the eyes of their hearts were enlightened with new wisdom and revelation.” …
Read the sermon: Joy: The Defining Mark of a Saint

Once upon a time, a physically challenged young woman with an unlikely dream relentlessly badgered the recalcitrant legal heir of a dilapidated estate to sell it. As the story goes, seven exhausting years later, she won her case. The worn-down landowner finally capitulated and sold that property. …
Read the sermon: Persistence in Pursuing Providence

A Sewanee professor, monk, priest and author Martin Smith, had a mischievous way of engaging students’ imaginations to grasp the meaning of a passage. During one preaching class, Martin actually had us re-enact today’s Gospel story of the bent -over woman. …
Read the sermon: Bent and Bound to Loosed and Liberated: A Return to Sabbath

As we approach the anniversary of our nation’s birth and our Declaration of Independence, we would do well to pay attention to our colonial ancestors’ hard-won freedoms. …
Read the sermon: Freedom and Responsibility

It’s hard for some of us to hear that God created the human race to be happy. It may shock you to hear this, but joy is what God longs for us to experience. Many feel unworthy, unable, or unwilling to believe that God made us to be happy. …
Read the sermon: Our Joy is God’s Delight

The people of Israel believe those who experience affliction are being punished by God. They assume if someone suffers, they deserve it. Jesus also knows they’ve been struggling with His message of human repentance and divine mercy.…
Read the sermon: Thirsty Fig Trees Bear More Fruit

News

George Washington: First in war, first in peace — and first at the church he built.

The Washington Post covered the transition of our church's historic vestry papers. Read the full article.

Welcome The Rev. Alex Allain, New Assistant to PIC/Rector!

It is with gratitude to our Lord that I joyfully announce the call of The Rev. Alex Allain as our new Assistant to the Priest In Charge/Rector. A Natchez, Mississippi, native, a 2009 graduate of Millsaps College, and a 2015 graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary, Alex will be moving to Northern Virginia … Read More

Pohick welcomed four into the Body of Christ on All Saints Sunday, rejoicing in their baptisms!