Religion and Values

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October 22, 2011

Religion Calendar

Today Cornerstone Festival, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Riverside United Methodist Church, 5 School St., Porter. With several activities, music, games and more. Call 625-4436 for details. Sunday Cornerstone rededication service, 9:15 a.m., Riverside United Methodist Church, 5 School St., Porter. To celebrate the 130th anniversary of the laying of the church cornerstone. 200th anniversary […]
Published
October 22, 2011

Reflections: Expressing love and praise essential in all areas of life

A few Sundays ago, I was asked to speak in a local church and concentrated on Psalm 148. It’s my favorite psalm because it speaks of the love of all of God’s creation for him. Imagine if mountains and hills, things that creep in the deep, and all the beasts of the field were given […]
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October 22, 2011

Church Christmas party fliers OK’d

A federal judge has granted a Christian group's request to bar a northeastern Pennsylvania school district from banning a fifth-grader from handing out fliers for a church Christmas party.
Published
October 22, 2011

Decree settles religious bias case

An Illinois woman had to quit her job to make a Muslim hajj, and then successfully sued the school district.
Published
October 15, 2011

Religion Calendar

Today Book, bake and rummage sale, 8 a.m. to noon, West Kennebunk United Methodist Church, 160 Alfred Road. Rummage sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Cressey Road United Methodist Church, off Route 25, Gorham. “Fair Trade” open house and sale of handmade items, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Faith Lutheran Church, 988 Roosevelt Trail (Route […]

Published
October 15, 2011

Religion Dispatches

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Christian music group allowed to expel gay student Officials at the state’s flagship university say a Christian singing group had the latitude to expel a member who identified himself as gay. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said the decision by the Christian a cappella group Psalm 100 did not […]
Published
October 15, 2011

Catholic bishop accused of cover-up

Robert Finn and the Kansas City (Mo.) Diocese face charges of failing to report suspected child sex abuse.
Published
October 15, 2011

Reflections: Spirit of people is what makes a worship space

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 […]
Published
October 8, 2011

Religion Calendar

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. […]
Published
October 8, 2011

Reflections: Say ‘Amen!’ to putting common good at center of life

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 […]

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