While we are disappointed at the thought of not being able to welcome as many Episcopalians to Baltimore for as long as originally planned, we are grateful that the 80th General Convention will still be held in Baltimore this summer. We invite all Episcopalians to visit Baltimore and our diocese virtually through our host website, gceighty.org.
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Klein could see names, property records, occupations. She could even see multiple freedom certificates describing free Black individuals down to the last chillingly specific detail — 5 feet and a half inch tall, “dark copper color,” missing “the first joint of her middle finger on her right hand,” a scar under the chin, “very pert in her talk.”
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Lillian Kim, considered the matriarch of Baltimore’s Chinese-American community, died in 2004, at the age of 85. Born in Toishan, China, she and her family had arrived in Baltimore in 1921, and for more than 70 years, Grace & St. Peter’s had been the epicenter of her spiritual and cultural life.
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The Diocese of Maryland Reparations Task Force is pleased to announce that grant applications for the Diocesan Reparations Fund will open on Monday, February 21. These grants are open to any organization within the geographical region of the Diocese of Maryland.
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And yet, that’s the challenge. Christ directs us to stay in community with those people or systems that harm us, and to not discard them or dismiss them. Christ also directs us to transform the world into a more just place, and to incorporate others — especially those that we disagree with — into that change.
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