This weekend’s biannual conference will bring 100,000 church members to Salt Lake City.
Religion and Values
Reflections: Failing to answer friend’s call reverberates for years
Are we too tired or too busy?
Religion Calendar
Saturday Rummage sale, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Clark Memorial United Methodist Church, Forest and Pleasant avenues, Portland. Attic Treasures sale, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Holy Trinity Parish Hall, 133 Pleasant St., Portland. Vigil for Disarmament, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., walkers will carry signs and banners along Washington Street from the administration building […]
Quaker school celebrating 125 years
Scattergood Friends School in Iowa combines religious ideals and hands-on farm lessons.
Reflections: Everything in our lives is God-given, with the intent that it will be lost
But we can learn from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop.
Religion Calendar
Saturday New England Transitional Support, 9 a.m., information about a new ministry network of service providers, congregations and volunteers working to help those in need. Held at Christ Church, 1900 Congress St., Portland. For more information, call Dianne at 518-1786. Heifer International, 2 to 4 p.m., 70th anniversary celebration featuring a musical program with Kate […]
Portland church finds a way to feed the multitudes
Members of the First Assembly of God on Cumberland Avenue distribute up to 10,000 pounds of food to needy neighbors each Sunday.
Reflections: A nudge may keep us from freezing in our fear
Like the turtle, we can use some help to keep moving forward.
Cardinals rebut theologian over marriage
A German cardinal asked whether Catholics who divorce and remarry without an annulment might be allowed to receive the Eucharist after a period of penance.
Religion Calendar
Saturday “Exhibition of the Bells,” 11 a.m. to noon, fundraising ceremony to raise $12,000 to purchase the four bells of St. Louis Church that were cast in the world-famous Paccard Bell Foundry of Annecy, France, and were blessed and installed in 1916 in the church’s New Auburn neighborhood. The bells have since been removed from […]