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Welcome to
Emmanuel
We strive to love God and our neighbors as ourselves. We believe every human is made in the image of God; therefore, we strive to respect the dignity of every human being.
Please know, we do not have all the answers... but each Sunday we gather around the table of the One who does.
Worship with Us
Sundays at 8:30am or 10:30am
Wednesdays at 12pm & 8pm
About Worship
How we follow Jesus:
Worship
Fellowship
Formation
Benevolence
Regardless of where you are on your spiritual journey, no matter your church or non-church background, we hope you find the grace-filled welcome of Jesus in our parish.
If you are single, divorced or married, republican or democrat, straight or gay, rich or poor, please know that you are welcome to come and seek God and God's kingdom with us.
Featured from the Blog
Public Executions
When I was a kid, my mom worried about me and my brothers watching professional wrestling. She worried it would make us violent people. And she was right! Every time the Ultimate Warrior ran down to ringside at top speed and shook the ring ropes and then press slammed some poor jobber over his head, within 10 minutes my brothers and I were wrestling, and within 11 minutes one of us was hurt (usually my big brother because I was so much stronger and faster than him). Then my m
Tom Dahlman
6 days ago3 min read
What does it mean to pray, and why should we? (A reflection on prayer + upcoming formation opportunities to learn more)
Talking to God can be using the words of the Lord’s prayer, it can be off-the-cuff, it can be going through the Daily Office, joining Lectio Divina on Mondays, or it can be as simple as witnessing the beauty of the world. Prayer can connect us to our Creator, bring us closer to each other, and help us learn more about who we are and how to live our lives accordingly.
Caitlyn Norwood
Aug 264 min read
The Wonderful Risk of Hospitality
We have read these words. We have heard them preached and even put them on t-shirts. We know that hospitality means welcoming the stranger and seeing in the unfamiliar face someone made in the image of God. We know it is a practice of faith in exactly the same sense that prayer, fasting, and giving to the poor are practices of faith. It requires effort, intention, and discipline. But we still battle fear.
Tom Dahlman
Jul 234 min read
How Wolves Change Rivers: A Spiritual Trophic Cascade
Taken together, these losses produce a recognizable landscape: loneliness, anxiety, depression, addiction, and an aching restlessness that many people feel but struggle to explain. It’s tempting to treat those problems as purely psychological. If the problem lives inside us, then the solution must also live inside us. Better habits. More discipline. Greater resilience. Those are all good things. But a river doesn’t rebuild its own banks because one elk develops better grazing
Tom Dahlman
Jul 95 min read
How Wednesday Nights Build the Church (thanks meal teams!)
Preparing food for each other and eating together is such an intimate, familial experience. It is also deeply rooted in the traditions of the early church as we see it in scripture. Eucharist is not the only transcendent meal we share. With every plate we eat with one another, we are mysteriously and invisibly woven together as the body of Christ.
Erica Bass
Jun 303 min read
What's it like to go to Emmanuel with little kids?
I wanted to write this blog specifically about what someone with kids might need to know in order to feel comfortable coming to visit our church with their littles, so hopefully you can come check us out with as little headache as possible!
Erica Bass
Jun 253 min read
The Biblical Case for Women in Ministry
When it comes to women in ministry, there are hundreds of examples across Scripture of women leading, prophesying, teaching, and breaking cultural barriers in the name of God. Yet, again and again, parts of the church bypass all of that and land on the two New Testament passages that seem to restrict women — passages that, conveniently, happen to confirm what our culture already expected. This pattern itself is ancient.
Tom Dahlman
Jun 185 min read
The 5-hour Drive: A word on fear & hope
When my friend Chris told me he was driving up from Dallas to tell me something, I was very confused. It was a five-hour drive. Whatever he needed to say, couldn't he just say it over the phone? But maybe there are some things that need to be said face to face. We had been friends for more than a decade. Somewhere in the back of my mind I had noticed that Chris had never had a girlfriend, never even been on a date. I assumed he was shy. By the time I hung up the phone, I was
Tom Dahlman
Jun 113 min read
From the Blog
Get to Know Us
About Emmanuel
Our Clergy
Our Staff
About Anglicanism
Expect to hear scripture from the old and new testaments, a short homily (aka sermon) from one of our priests, and participate in Eucharist if you choose (all who seek Him are welcome at Christ's table).
There are places where we bow to show reverence for Christ, and places where we kneel to humble ourselves before God. There are times we cross ourselves as a way of using our entire bodies to worship and remember Christ’s sacrifice. We read ancient creeds and prayers together aloud to affirm our faith, and sing hymns to organ and piano. You will notice that no two people do the same thing, so there is no “wrong” way!
Trust us, many people find this a bit intimidating at first, but later fall in love with the reverence of our ancient worship.
Our congregation has grown considerably over the last 130 years, but the tenants of our faith have not wavered. We are a community of faith valuing service to our community, holy friendship amongst our congregants, and growth in Christ through continual learning and practice.
In 1896, Bishop Francis Key Brooke -- the first Bishop of Oklahoma (though the state would not earn it's official statehood until some years later) -- confirmed 5 individuals beginning the Episcopal Church in Shawnee. It was named Emmanuel, which means "God with us".
In December of 1897, its first building was established on the corner of 10th & Broadway (just a few block south of our current location), and was furnished simply with kitchen chairs, a wood stove, and kerosene lamps. In October of 1909, the new church building was completed, the building which we still worship in every Sunday!
Upcoming Gatherings
Oct 18, 2026, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PMEmmanuel Episcopal Church, 501 N Broadway Ave, Shawnee, OK 74801, USAJoin us each Sunday for worship, fellowship, & formation! 8:30am - Rite 1 (Elizabethan language, minimal music) | 9:30am - Formation classes for all ages | 10:30am - Rite II (modern language & hymns)
Wed, Oct 21
Wed, Oct 21
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