I considered it a tremendous honor that he accepted our invitation to come to the Diocese of Maryland shortly after my consecration as bishop in 2008 to bless our burgeoning efforts to repair the damage of centuries of racial injustice, leading to the naming of the Diocesan Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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This is a piece of the David narrative that we never hear on Sunday mornings. It spoke to me, because in it we witness a really important moment in David’s life. The moment when David makes reparations to the family of Saul.
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United Thank Offering announced the grant recipients for the Spring 2021 cycle, and we are excited to share that the Diocese of Maryland will receive $25,000 in grant funding for “Resurrection Food Distribution.” The focus of the granting process this year was ‘Recovering with Love and Gratitude: An Episcopal Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Local Contexts.’
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Perhaps the deeper pain is the fact that this was not an isolated incident. It happened to Breonna Taylor on March 13 in Kentucky. It happened to Ahmaud Arbery on February 23 in Georgia. Racial terror in this form occurred when I was a teenager growing up black in Buffalo, New York. It extends back to the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 and well before that. It’s not just our present or our history. It is part of the fabric of American life.
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The way forward is also the road of our own transformation, in the midst of a societal transformation that we can help shape by our faithfulness to the God of resurrection and hope. God is calling forth from us now far more than we could have asked for or imagined just a few months ago.
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