by Jonathan Shorr | Dec 6, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Family, Religion, Spirituality
“How good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.” (Psalm 133) On a quiet Sunday morning last May, Lutherville’s Church of the Holy Comforter held a worship service at which the congregation’s rector, the Rev. Chris Tang, baptized a baby girl whose... read more
by Jonathan Shorr | Oct 16, 2018 | Community, Community Resources, Education, Elderly, Family, Spirituality
When approaching her 60th birthday, poet and playwright Wilderness Sarchild says she found herself anxious and “full of dread. My mother got dementia when she was in her 70s, and that was the biggest reason, I think, for my own fear of aging.” That fear served as the... read more
by Jonathan Shorr | Oct 12, 2018 | Community, Religion, Spirituality
Writer Adam Gopnik will speak about the state of spirituality at the Cardin Memorial Lecture. Adam Gopnik believes there’s more than one way to rationally examine the world around us. “People most often accept one truth about the world while also accepting a... read more
by Jonathan Shorr | May 31, 2018 | Arts & Life, Museum, The Arts
Last July, while attending the annual Artscape festival in Baltimore’s Mount Royal neighborhood, Marvin D. Pinkert ducked into the lobby of the Theatre Project to escape the oppressive heat. As fate would have it, he immediately noticed magician and storyteller David... read more
by Jonathan Shorr | May 24, 2018 | JBiz
It’s not unusual for Dan Shemer’s phone to ring when he and his wife, Kathleen, are out to dinner with friends. “I have to take this,” he says. “It’s a really smart but really insecure student. She’s convinced she’s going to fail the bar; I need to talk her down.” The... read more