by Kaitlyn | Jan 8, 2019 | News
By Mary Klein, diocesan archivist The Johns Hopkins Hospital was completed in 1889, and in the Rev. George Leakin’s report of 1890 (which outlined the work he had done in 1889 as the Chaplain to Institutions in Baltimore) he mentioned that he had made visits to the...
by Kaitlyn | Dec 11, 2018 | News
By Mary Klein, diocesan archivist “Advent Poem” By The Rev. William Augustus White “O Christian souls, mark now the time: – High time to wake from sleep; The night is past; the day-spring dawns, Let us our vigils keep. Awake, awake, though all around, Are...
by Kaitlyn | Dec 5, 2018 | General Convention, News
by The Rev. Ramelle McCall I have been asked to serve on the Interim Body* addressing the State of the Church. This committee, appointed by President of the House of Deputies, Gay Jennings, has been asked to “to fulfill Resolution 2018-A053, which directs the...
by Kaitlyn | Nov 27, 2018 | News
By Mary Klein, diocesan archivist In some circles, John Brown’s raid on a federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, on October 16-18, 1859, made him into a martyr. But contemporary abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison called his revolutionary plan “misguided,...
by Kaitlyn | Nov 13, 2018 | News
By Mary Klein, diocesan archivist From the beginning of his Episcopate in 1944, Bishop Noble Powell dreamed of having a place where the whole diocese could meet for conferences, study, retreats and camps, thus developing a family spirit within the diocese. A piece of...
by Kaitlyn | Oct 16, 2018 | News
By Mary Klein, diocesan archivist Six weeks after his consecration as Bishop of Maryland, William Rollinson Whittingham set out to meet the clergy and congregations of Western Maryland. During his thirteen-day visitation, he visited 9 churches, a school, a Sunday...