ADDRESS: 515 Woodford St. DENOMINATION/AFFILIATION: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. HISTORY: St. Ansgar Evangelical Lutheran (Danish) church was founded in 1875. Immanuel (Swedish) Lutheran Church was founded in 1894. The original St. Ansgar church was on Mayo Street in Portland. Immanuel was located on Sherman Street, also in downtown Portland. In 1954, the two congregations […]

Today Yard sale, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., sponsored by Sanford Unitarian Universalist Church and held at 2141 Sanford Road, Wells. Yard and book sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 9 Portland Road, Kennebunk. Yard sale, 9 a.m., to benefit the Vacation Bible School program. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church, 515 Woodford […]

The forest has taken over the trees. These days it seems anger, disappointment, all the darkness of overgrown forests have captured the platforms of America and its ideals. We hear sounds that remind us of hyenas and wolves that bray at night. Anyone who has lived at the edge of civilization and faced a sleepless […]

His Pentecostal mother objects to his Catholic father’s wishes.

Today Rummage sale, 8 to 11 a.m., Christ Church, 6 Dane St., Kennebunk. Rummage sale, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 678 Washington Ave., Portland. Plant sale, 9 a.m. to noon, rain or shine, Peoples United Methodist Church, 310 Broadway, South Portland. Clothing giveaway, 9 a.m. to noon, Salvation Army, Union and […]

But who was it? Many say it was a Chicago clergyman, but his rival for the title is a one-time Portland bishop.

Our pained faces crack when we enter again into the mystery from which we have been separated. We recognize the mystery in ourselves, in another, or in some graceful transpiration of the world, and our pain is miraculously integrated into the wholeness of our beings. It does not cease entirely, as the mystery bears both […]