For Christians worldwide, this season is a reminder that we are people of hope, not despair. We have a home that transcends this world. Before His crucifixion, Jesus promised His disciples that He would ascend to the Father and prepare a place for believers. He will return to take us to our eternal home, where […]

Regarding Reuben M. Schafir’s Dec. 7, Page 1 Maine Sunday Telegram story, “The bill has come due Down East,” the only question is: how come a similar situation hasn’t occurred sooner and more often in Maine towns and counties? We send police candidates to an academy to learn the business, lawyers to law schools and […]

I am appalled by President Trump’s characterization of all Somalis as “garbage.” A few years ago, I served as an election observer in Lewiston. I watched as dozens of Somalis came to the polling place. Many brought their entire family — grandparents, babies and teenagers —  to watch them cast their vote. Some took selfies […]

I’m hoping that our elected leaders, at both the federal and state levels, look to a health care solution that will work for all Americans, while keeping the costs down. The most evident solution out there now is a single-payer health care system, administered by the government and taking out the corporate profit and high costs that […]

“Irish need not apply.” My parents told me about this sign that was common in shop windows advertising for help in the 1930s.   It seems we have made no progress since then. Our president shamefully called out our Somali neighbors in a truly disgusting manner earlier this month. History will condemn him for that. […]

When winter and the news leave me cold, reading warms me. In 1859, Abraham Lincoln said, “The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied, and evaded, with no small show of success … Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and under […]