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December 18, 2008
Execution isn't path to a peaceful society As Christians, church leaders and bishops in the Episcopal Church, we urge the General Assembly to act to abolish the death penalty ("Report fuels death debate," Dec. 13). As Christians, we are guided by the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. Here he specifically rejects retribution by stating that even the teaching in the Old Testament of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" is to be rejected in favor of the teaching that calls for reconciliation (Matthew, 6:38)
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By Rona Marech | June 27, 2008
When the Rev. Canon Eugene T. Sutton was elected the 14th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, the first person he called was his 94-year-old grandmother, a devout Baptist who lives in a Washington nursing home. "Her prayers for me have made all the difference in the world," Sutton said. But more than that, he knew she could appreciate the twists of history that led to his election. Sutton, who will be consecrated tomorrow as the state's first African-American bishop, is the great-great-grandson of slaves.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | May 9, 2008
Raymond C. Bryant, a retired Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. executive and former North Baltimore resident, died Tuesday of leukemia at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville. He was 86. Mr. Bryant was born in Baltimore and raised near Wyman Park. He was a 1940 graduate of Polytechnic Institute and earned a bachelor's degree in business from Loyola College in 1943. He also studied economics at the Johns Hopkins University. During World War II, he served in the Navy in the Pacific and attained the rank of lieutenant commander.
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By Michael Hill | January 8, 2008
Four candidates from across the country have been chosen by a search committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland to replace retired Bishop Robert W. Ihloff. Among them is the Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, who was runner-up in an election last year as bishop of the church's California diocese. Sutton, 54, is the canon pastor of Washington's National Cathedral and director of the Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage there. Other nominees are: The Rev. Jane Soyster Gould, 51, rector of St. Stephen's Memorial Church in Lynn, Mass.
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By Rebecca Trounson | December 9, 2007
FRESNO, Calif. -- The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin in California became the first in the nation yesterday to secede from the Episcopal Church, taking the historic, risky step as part of a years-long struggle within the church and global Anglican Communion over homosexuality and biblical authority. Delegates to San Joaquin's annual convention then also formally accepted an invitation to align the largely rural 14-county diocese with a conservative Anglican leader overseas, Archbishop Gregory James Venables of Argentina.
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November 8, 2007
Juanita Fair, a retired administrative assistant to five Episcopal bishops of Maryland, died of leukemia complications Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The North Baltimore resident was 68. Born in Baltimore and raised on Aisquith Street, she was a 1957 graduate of Carver Vocational-Technical School, where she studied secretarial skills. "Juanita was one of a kind. She had a very personal relationship with God and with her church," said the Rev. Jesse L.A. Parker, her pastor at St. John's in the Village Episcopal Church.
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By Liz F. Kay | April 7, 2007
Amid the heated national and global conflicts of the Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. Robert Wilkes Ihloff has managed to keep the calm in Maryland. Retiring this weekend after a dozen years as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Ihloff is proud to have worked through many of the tensions that have beset the church elsewhere, from female clergy to the place of gays and lesbians. "It makes my retirement much easier in that I am very proud of this diocese in the way it functions and is administered," Ihloff said.
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April 14, 2006
Dorothy C. Merritt, a homemaker who had been active in the affairs of historic Epiphany Episcopal Church in Odenton for many years, died from complications of dementia Wednesday at Genesis Multi-Medical Center in Towson. She was 88. Dorothy Constance Miller was born and raised in New Durham, N.H. After graduating from high school in 1934, she completed business and bookkeeping courses at McIntosh College in Dover, N.H. As a young woman, she played piano and wrote poetry that was published in Boston newspapers.
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July 25, 2005
On July 20, 2005, DELIA GOULD DOLL, a figure in her own right in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. She was the widow of the Rt. Rev. Harry Lee Doll, 10th Bishop of Maryland, whose beloved wife and companion in ministry she was. She is survived by her three daughters, Millicent Shargel, of Talahasse, FL, the Rev. Chotard Doll-Fenik, of Wallawalla, WA and Rebecca Doll Clark, of Baltimore, two sons-in-law, Emanuel Shargel and Bernard Fenik, three grandchildren, Delia...
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By LOS ANGELES TIMES | August 18, 2004
Two Southern California Episcopal parishes announced yesterday that they had broken with the national church over the issue of homosexuality, placing themselves under the jurisdiction of a conservative Anglican bishop from Africa. The announcement by All Saints Church in Long Beach, Calif., and St. James Parish in Newport Beach, Calif., escalated a confrontation within the Episcopal Church over the role of gay clergy and the proper interpretation of Scripture. The move marked the first time that any of the 147 parishes in the six-county Los Angeles Episcopal Diocese had made good on threats to pull out of the 2.3 million-member national Episcopal Church.