Jared Saks, the new rabbi at Congregation Bet Ha’am in South Portland, is committed to having an open door.
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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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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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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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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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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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Reflections: Retracing places we’ve been allows us to recognize where we are now
One friend died last summer of cancer. A neighbor passed last month in his sleep. Last week, a favorite relative heard that he has congestive heart failure. I took the grief to a spiritual adviser. “Pay attention,” she said. “Remember the lines from Mary Oliver’s poem, ‘Doesn’t everything die at last and too soon? Tell […]
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Town’s opposition to spiritual center ends up in court
A woman finds her plan for an interfaith retreat in Virginia is not welcomed by the community.
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Religion Briefs
New rabbi to lead services at Bet Ha’am Congregation Bet Ha’am in South Portland welcomes its new spiritual leader, Rabbi Jared Saks, 33, who will conduct his first services at the synagogue this weekend. Saks was selected from more than 30 applicants for the position and, for the past six years, has served as assistant […]
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Religion Calendar
Today Yard sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., First Baptist Church, 429 Main St., Springvale. Crafts and bake sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., held rain or shine. North Sebago Methodist Church. Sunday Sequel Band, 6 to 8 p.m., gospel music performance, Sadhana: The Meditation Center, 100 Brickhill Ave., South Portland. By donation. St. Luke’s […]