Summary
The Baltimore Sun – Spiritual coaches aim to ease COVID-19, other health disparities in West Baltimore – Diabetes, heart disease and other ailments had been disproportionately cutting lives short in the disadvantaged neighborhoods…
LI Herald – Antique church plaque returns to Baldwin – The antique All Saints Episcopal Church plaque that was found by a Baldwin native in a Florida antique shop last month was returned to the church last Sunday.
Daily Memphian – ‘Faithfully Memphis’ to ‘3 Black Chicks,’ a music station makes time to talk – Bishop Phoebe Roaf’s “Faithfully Memphis” features her signature calm, spiritual meditation. The talk show made its debut on WYXR on Thursday, Oct. 15…
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Spiritual coaches aim to ease COVID-19, other health disparities in West Baltimore
The Baltimore Sun – Baltimore, MD
Diabetes, heart disease and other ailments had been disproportionately cutting lives short in the disadvantaged neighborhoods of West Baltimore for decades when the coronavirus pandemic emerged and piled on.
A group of Episcopal Church members found that to be something of a last straw.
Buoyed by the recent social justice movement, three Black women from the church with backgrounds in health care are launching a program to train peer coaches who can guide, motivate and otherwise help the largely minority populations in some hard-hit neighborhoods figure out how to live healthier…
Antique church plaque returns to Baldwin
LI Herald – Garden City, NY
The antique All Saints Episcopal Church plaque has returned home to Baldwin after a long journey over state lines.
Baldwin resident Maureen Herman arranged a ceremony at the church, on Harrison Avenue, last Sunday to allow for a proper welcome back celebration for the artifact.
Baldwin native Eric Finkelstein was visiting the Lakeland Antique Mall in Florida on Sept. 5 when he stumbled upon the plaque hanging from the ceiling. It reads “All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Baldwin, N.Y. Rev. C. Merton Wilson, Rector.” He took a photo and posted it in the Baldwin Inside Facebook group…
‘Faithfully Memphis’ to ‘3 Black Chicks,’ a music station makes time to talk
Daily Memphian – Memphis, TN
Bishop Phoebe Roaf’s “Faithfully Memphis” features her signature calm, spiritual meditation. The talk show made its debut on WYXR on Thursday, Oct. 15.
On WYXR, a station built around a purposeful kind of musical chaos, we’ve left room for talk programming to give Memphians space for communal discourse.
We launched the station Oct. 5 with a one-time, hours-long musical marathon, so the premiere of the first talk show was a Thursday morning, when Bishop Phoebe Roaf debuted “Faithfully Memphis,” her signature calm, spiritual meditation.