Religion and Values

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July 23, 2011

Religion Calendar

Today Yard and bake sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., with luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., North Saco Congregational Church, Flag Pond, Heath and Rocky Hill roads, Saco. Yard and bake sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Solon Congregational Church, Route 201, Solon. Connected Catholics of Maine, Christmas in July party, 12:30 to […]
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July 23, 2011

Working to create a place for everybody

Jared Saks, the new rabbi at Congregation Bet Ha'am in South Portland, is committed to having an open door.
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July 23, 2011

Reflections: The argument for reason and respect

Have you ever noticed that when a controversial subject is brought up, people begin to shout at one another? Emotions take over and reason disappears. When I was young, the controversial subject was segregation vs. integration. I grew up in the North, but I did spend the sixth grade in a racially segregated public school […]
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July 23, 2011

Putting Mormonism at center of the stage

The annual Hill Cumorah Pageant is a celebration of faith – and a way to try to dispel misconceptions.
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July 23, 2011

Lutheran group clarifies views after Bachmann departs

The group's statement about Catholics comes in response to the candidate leaving the synod.

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July 23, 2011

Florida county will appeal Ten Commandments ruling

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Dixie County officials will appeal a federal judge’s order to remove a 6-ton monument displaying the Ten Commandments in the front of their courthouse building, county attorney Jennifer Ellison said Friday. County commissioners voted 5-0 Thursday night to appeal and also seek a stay in Judge Maurice Paul’s decision requiring the granite […]
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July 16, 2011

Religious calendar, July 16, 2011

Today Founders’ Festival, celebrating the 225th anniversary of North Parish Church, Sanford. Events are held throughout the day and feature a pioneer living museum, picnic, movies and an evening pig roast. A church service on Sunday will be similar to an early 1800s service and will be followed by the dedication of a landscape mural. […]
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July 16, 2011

Resignation doesn’t change Tibetan dreams

WASHINGTON – Ngawang Sangdrol was jailed and tortured when she was 14 years old for staging a protest in Lhasa for Tibet’s freedom. She said during the worst of her 11 years in prison — when she suffered in solitary confinement from fear, hunger and the cold — she imagined the Dalai Lama at the […]
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July 16, 2011

Reflections: Catholicism’s decline a function of feeling unwanted

What explains the ongoing Roman Catholic decline in Europe and the Americas? A Catholic renaissance in theology, liturgical understanding, art and social thought in the West had flowered in John XXIII’s Second Vatican Council. After centuries of post-Reformation reaction, pastoral concerns would take the fore. The People of God would engage the world. The world […]
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July 16, 2011

Why is China still afraid of the Dalai Lama?

His moderate, step-by-step approach to democratization is one that Beijing would be wise to embrace.

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