The Episcopal Churches of Maryland commemorated the 150th anniversary of the official abolishment of chattel slavery in Maryland on All Saints’ Day, Nov. 1, 2014, with the Trail of Souls: Truth and Reconciliation Pilgrimage.
ON THE TRAIL OF SOULS
A PILGRIMAGE TOWARDS TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION.
Can Christmas Be Joyous This Year? A Message for Advent and Christmas
John the Baptist knew all about the wilderness, and he knew a way out of it: hope. Hope conquers the deserted places in your life. The French word for despair, desespoir, literally means to “un-hope” (de-aspire). When one loses hope, then all the joy of life flies out the window.
Reparations in the Diocese of Maryland: David’s Reparation to the Family of Saul
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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The idea for the “Trail of Souls” tour grew out of the Diocese of Maryland’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s mission to discover and be reconciled with the Church’s involvement and complicity in slavery and its legacies.
