My mother once said she could probably experience the sacred, a spirit of worship, in the any religious tradition’s worship space. I was surprised, as she was so staunchly Methodist, but something about that declaration stayed with me. I was reminded of it at 19, thoroughly agnostic, stunned to silence by the pillars and mysterious […]

A suit brought by a church and a gun rights group says the state law violates constitutional freedoms.

We are betting on a losing horse if we believe that increased consumer spending is the answer to America’s financial crisis. In these times of population explosion, ecological crisis and their partner in death, worldwide famine; when the rich in this country are getting richer and the poor poorer; when the U.S. military budget, at […]

KEZAR FALLS N.H. woman appointed pastor of Riverside UMC Pastor Shannon Keeney was appointed to Riverside United Methodist Church in Kezar Falls by Bishop Peter Weaver, resident bishop of the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church. Keeney is from Fremont, N.H. She graduated from Hiram (Ohio) College and Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, […]

Today Rummage sale, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Clark Memorial United Methodist Church, Forest and Pleasant avenues, Portland. Arts and crafts sale, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., First Parish Church, 40 Main St., Freeport. Held rain or shine. Maine Fellowship of Christian Writers, conference with author Susan Page Davis as the featured speaker, 9 a.m. […]

“Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.” (Ecclesiastes 1:4)   Windham Hill United Church of Christ and E-Waste of Maine are having another electronic-waste disposal drive for the general public this month. The church and the company have joined forces to hold the events at least once a year since 2009. Christian […]

Today Clothing sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. George’s Episcopal Church, 3 Emerson St., Sanford. Free blood pressure screening. Byzantine Divine Liturgy, 10 a.m., celebrated by the Rev. Robert Parent with Deacon Stephen McGrath. Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, 122 Ash St., Lewiston. Vigil for Disarmament, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., across from […]

PORTLAND Bishop Malone announces two diocese assignments Bishop Richard J. Malone has announced the following assignments for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, according to a news release from the diocese: • The Rev. John McHugh has been named campus chaplain at St. Joseph’s College of Maine in Standish. McHugh, a Capuchin Franciscan friar, was […]