Dear Folks,
Take a look at the programming scheduled for Wednesday evenings over the next eight weeks!
As Sacred Ground groups continue their work of anti-racism, the parish is invited to screen two films to mark Black History month. The movies begin at 7:00 p.m. in the parish hall, with a clergy-led discussion following. For those who prefer to participate from home we will offer the movies and discussion at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom. Click here to join.
February 16 My Name is Pauli Murray Murray was a poet, activist, legal trail blazer, and Episcopal priest. Her life and work influenced Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall, propelled gender equity, and strengthened the rights of women and people of color. Early in the film we are told, “You can’t teach American History without talking about Pauli Murray.”
February 23 I am Not Your Negro, director Raoul Peck’s “powerful but imperfect” documentary, received critical acclaim and a Best Documentary Oscar nomination (The Atlantic). Compelled to do more than talk about the “Black American problem” from a distance, the film opens with James Baldwin’s return from France and chronicles his life through the civil-rights movement, focusing on his personal relationships with Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 2 Ash Wednesday services at 7:30 a.m., Noon, and 7:30 p.m.
Mark your calendar for VOICES, the Redeemer speaker series which resumes after a two-year pandemic hiatus. VOICES serves the broad community of Baltimore by inviting contemporary speakers to challenge and inform us: artists and authors, visionaries and thought leaders… advocates of change courageous enough to hold the loveliness and sorrow of the world at once, and find the wonder in both.
March 9 Padraig O’Tuama Poet and theologian, Pádraig Ó Tuama’s work centers around themes of language, power, conflict and religion. Pádraig presents Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios and in late 2019 was named Theologian in Residence for On Being, innovating in bringing art and theology into public and civic life. When BBC journalist William Crawley introduced Pádraig on the stage to deliver a TEDx talk on Story, Crawley said, “He’s probably the best public speaker I know.”
March 16 Jayne Miller of WBAL – TV News moderates a group of prominent women in a panel discussion to celebrate International Women’s Day. The panel includes Laura Gamble, PNC Regional President of Greater Maryland, Judy Postmus, Dean of University of Maryland School of Social Work, a youth organizer of The Period Poverty Project, and a leader in gender equity for refugees from Catholic Relief Services. Ms. Miller, a champion for women in the field of communications, has had a long tenure with WBAL-TV. She’s been a reporter with the station for more than 30 years and is currently the chief investigative reporter with the 11 Investigates I-Team.
March 23 Francois Furstenberg Johns Hopkins professor Furstenberg explores the history of the United States and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation (2006), examines how images of George Washington in nineteenth-century print culture helped promote U.S. nationalism, with a particular focus on contemporary understandings of Washington’s slaveholding. When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation (2014), connects the United States to the French Atlantic World in the eighteenth-century Age of Revolutions.
March 30 Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby Cousins: Connected Through Slavery. What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? The answer is revealed as they tell the dramatic story of their meeting, sharing of family histories, and search for reconciliation – from Betty’s experience desegregating her county’s only high school, to Phoebe’s eventual question to Betty: “How do I begin to repair the harms?”
April 6 Erica Green New York Times correspondent Erica Green covers the U.S. Department of Education and federal education policy, with a focus on civil rights and educational equity in the nation’s schools. Formerly at The Baltimore Sun, since joining The Times in 2017, Ms. Green has covered the tenure of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the impact of the Trump administration’s policies on the K-12 and higher education systems, and the toll that the coronavirus pandemic has taken on the country’s schools and students.
VOICES speakers begin at 7:00 p.m.
Love,
David