The bell tower was completed in January of 1893, and contained the well which supplied water for the rectory. The water was pumped up into the rectory attic and ran down by gravity. Inscribed on the tower are these words, “This bell was cast august 1885. ‘God, I praise the living, I call the dead, I lament.’
The Rev. Alice Moore Bassett-Jellema, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Guardian Angel in the Remington neighborhood of Baltimore, died at home November 2 from a glioblastoma. The Baltimore resident was 62.
As Bishop Curry said in his sermon at Ron’s memorial service, “Ron and Mary were so bound together by powerful love, that they gave their lives for their family, and for their church family. Now they are in the hands of God whose powerful love will never let them go.”
Looking at the sprawling campus of the Johns Hopkins Hospital today, it is hard to imagine that the little Church of the Holy Covenant was once in the middle of a controversial expansion plan. In January of 1986, the diocese received the first official letter from the hospital expressing interest in purchasing the property which housed Holy Covenant so that they could build a new ambulatory care facility.
The Church of the Holy Covenant has one of the most complicated histories of any church in our diocese. It has been known by at least four names and moved at least six times. Starting at the beginning, let’s try to sort out this puzzle.
I am also really grateful that all of the people we met were so welcoming to us, a group of strangers who simply wanted to help. We all helped one another, regardless of who the other person was or where they came from, and I think that’s the way God wants us to be.
[Timonium, MD] In the past 6 months, the congregations of St. Thomas’ in Towson and Epiphany in Timonium have engaged in an intense process of discernment that has prompted leadership from both Episcopal congregations to decide unanimously to merge and become one,...
BBC America has produced a three-part documentary series on the opioid addiction crisis in the United States. Camp Spirit Song and the safe space created for children to have fun while surrounded by caring, compassionate staff and peers who can relate to their experiences, is featured in the third installment of the series.
Last night 85 of us gathered in the nave to listen to the second speaker in our VOICES series, journalist and author Lawrence Lanahan. As part of his presentation, he read aloud excerpts from his recently published book, The Lines Between Us: Two Families and A Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide. I can’t imagine that the words he said were easy for him to speak.
The Ecumenical Leaders’ Group of Maryland released this letter to President Donald J. Trump in response to his many tweets about Baltimore over the past weekend.
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Bishop Sutton addresses the 235th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. Practicing the way of love, especially through conflict, is the path to the fuller realization of the kingdom of God, to repairing the broken places.
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Bishop Sutton and diocesan Truth and Reconciliation Commission member, Mr. Waymon Wright, speak at the Hasselbach family graveyard on the grounds of the Claggett Center
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