BANGOR – Ryan Dobson believes in being intolerant. The 33-year-old son of Dr. James Dobson, the Christian psychologist, author and radio personality, will be the keynote speaker at next weekend’s Maine Christian Teen Convention at the Bangor Auditorium. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
A certain young couple began attending services at a large suburban church. The minister was a gifted speaker. He preached many powerful sermons. One Sunday the couple responded to his invitation to get right with God and join the church. The minister asked, “Which of… Read More
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If Jesus were to celebrate Earth Day, he would definitely plant a few trees. Afterward, he would sit quietly among those trees, his bare feet in the dirt, and listen. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
Last things are the first things for the Rev. Tim LaHaye. The minister whose “Left Behind” novels deal with the end of the world will conduct a daylong seminar in Bangor next Saturday. It will focus on that “Left Behind” version of end times –… Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. I am writing as we celebrate our weeklong Jewish holiday of Passover. Our first seder, an ordered meal and service, was with family in… Read More
DOVER-FOXCROFT – Some 800 men are expected to participate next week in a Men to Men Conference planned for two days in a local high school gymnasium. Reflecting the phenomenal growth since the 1980s of men-focused Christian ministries, the conference April 23-24 is sponsored by… Read More
Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” made Jesus’ final hours real for millions of moviegoers this year. For some parishioners of St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church in Winterport and St. Matthew’s Catholic Church in Hampden, the time spent during Lent in a centuries-old ritual called… Read More
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Anne Wetzel didn’t begin looking at the world through the eye of a camera until she retired. For 30 years, she worked in the fine arts department at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After retirement from her job as a senior administrator, on a… Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. More than once the topic of religion would come up in school, and my daughters self-identified Unitarian Universalist would hear, “You mean that church… Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. Religious leaders ignore credit-card usury. Some acknowledge it but are too cowardly to confront it. Others accept its benefits in donations with a misguided… Read More
MILFORD – Elder Aaron Tyler Brown has been called to serve his denomination as a missionary at the Mexico City West Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Brown, 19, is the son of Charles and Mary-Ann Brown of Milford. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
BREWER – Michael Lewis, a veteran session guitarist and Christian musician from Nashville, Tenn., will be in Maine next week, appearing in two events at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church. Lewis has been a worship leader and guitarist for a host of events, including World… Read More
CLINTON – The Rev. Kathleen Allan is back in Maine, working quietly at a factory in Burnham that makes golf tees. The tranquility of her life is far from what she experiencing as a minister for six years in her suburban Washington, D.C. congregation. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. My first essay, on Jan. 24, introduced the idea of a Jewish civilization – the Jewish people. The second, on Feb. 21, introduced the… Read More
Diane DeVita knows firsthand the healing power of prayer. The Hampden resident says she was cured of what her doctors believed was fibromyalgia when she attended a revival conducted by the evangelist Christian Harfouche in 1997. His Florida-based ministry conducted services at Abundant Life Church… Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. The recent release of “The Passion of the Christ” in theaters nationwide has evoked new interest in the purpose of Jesus’ suffering and death. Read More
An article by Walter Reich in the Feb. 27 Bangor Daily News (“‘Passion’ gives fertile ground for anti-Semitism to grow”) gave voice to Jewish concerns that Mel Gibson’s remarkable movie, “The Passion of the Christ,” could provoke acts of anti-Semitism. Reich, a professor of international… Read More
Everywhere I go, people ask me, “What do you think about Mel Gibson’s new movie?” It seems appropriate for me to share a few thoughts. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var… Read More
I saw “The Passion of the Christ” last week. I’ll admit that it was more than I could take, and I was too wrung out from literally hanging on for dear life for two hours to weigh controversies. I never could understand how someone who… Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. I do not believe in the separation of church and state. “Church” and state are inexorably linked in our country. As they should be. Read More
In the beginning was the word. Then the word became flesh, and it has been up for grabs ever since. For 2,000 years – from Dante’s crucified Christ to Albert Schweitzer’s devotions to Monty Python’s irreverent “Life of Brian” – the story of Jesus of… Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. My earliest childhood memories were of stories of a family that survived Soviet communism, the German invasion of their homeland and Nazi forced labor. Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. Part of Judaism’s strength as a 4,000-year-old civilization is its diversity. Jewish scholarly tradition shows great respect for the many varied opinions expressed by… Read More
The man sent by the archbishop of Canterbury to negotiate release of hostages in Beirut, Lebanon – and held hostage himself for nearly five years – returned to the scene of his captivity this week. Terry Waite returned Monday to the Lebanese capital for the… Read More
Behind the desk of the bishop who oversees Maine’s 234,000 Roman Catholics is an 18th century iron cross. It is about 3 feet tall and is one of the few things that survived a massacre of the Catholic mission at Norridgewock by British soldiers in 1723. Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. There’s the story of the woman who claims she is going to have her husband stuffed and mounted when he dies. She says that… Read More
When Bobby Labonte takes the green flag in Sunday’s Daytona 500 in Florida, he’ll be racing for victory – and the Lord. The hood of Labonte’s car is both a shameless movie plug – “The Passion of the Christ,” coming soon to a theater near… Read More
PORTLAND – Allegations of sexual abuse were made against 41 Roman Catholic priests in Maine by 86 victims between 1950 and 2001, the Diocese of Portland reported Thursday. Release of the most detailed figures made public since three priests accused of sexual abuse were removed… Read More
PORTLAND – Bishop Joseph Gerry’s three-page letter sent this week to Maine’s 234,000 Roman Catholics outlines numbers about the devastating scandal of clergy sexual abuse of minors – and it offers an apology. The bishop, who is retiring next month, said he wanted to apologize… Read More
There’s no question about it. The sexual abuse scandal was the biggest challenge the Most Rev. Joseph J. Gerry faced in his career. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i =… Read More
An auxiliary bishop from the Boston archdiocese who specializes in religious education was tapped by Pope John Paul II on Tuesday to succeed Bishop Joseph Gerry as spiritual leader of Maine’s 234,000 Roman Catholics. “I am delighted to be here,” Bishop Richard Malone, 57, of… Read More
Amid all the hustle and drama of Eastern Maine Medical Center, Rex Garrett Jr. is an island of calm. A compact figure in a gray tweed coat, he seems surrounded by a low-pressure field, as though his aura has been professionally de-cluttered and invitingly feng… Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. Years ago, when I first saw the remarkable movie “Amistad,” I was shocked and shamed by my ignorance. I had never heard of La… Read More
It could have been enough to split the congregation. Not too many years ago, members of the venerable Dover-Foxcroft Congregational Church were confronted with either replacing their ailing 1,000-pipe organ installed in 1929 or repairing it. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
Marvin Ellison is used to being in the minority. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), which has just one congregation in Maine, Ellison is a gay man in a society dominated by heterosexuals. He has taught Christian ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary since… Read More
People who are 65 or older tend to be happier and more satisfied with their lives if they attend religious services more frequently than other seniors, two University of Maine researchers suggest. Steven Barkan, professor of sociology, and Susan Greenwood, a lecturer in the UM… Read More
Editor’s Note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. The solemn relationship between Creator and creation is being legislated, federalized and bureaucratized. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
BANGOR – The spirit moved through a speaker from the Society of Friends and swept across those attending the opening session of Bangor Theological Seminary’s annual convocation Monday, leaving many in the audience in tears. Deborah Saunders, a Quaker, gave an emotional sermon that emphasized… Read More
BANGOR – “Faith Meets Faith” this week when Bangor Theological Seminary brings together some of the nation’s leading religious thinkers in its 99th annual convocation, including a scholar who studies the Christian New Testament from a Jewish perspective. The convocation, which runs Monday through Wednesday,… Read More
As we grew as a people, we developed particular relationships to the land, to the agricultural cycle, to our own life cycle and to the world around us. Editor’s note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting… Read More
Editor’s note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. A recent edition of the Encyclopedia of American Religions includes descriptions of 2,300 different religious groups currently existing in the United States and it… Read More
Lee Witting believes that no matter what your faith, you should have access to a beautiful place for your wedding. That’s why he’s offering interfaith or nondenominational services at the city’s oldest church. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
Todd Morris stepped outside to take a smoke on the front porch of his sister’s house one day in 2000 and wound up in the belly of a whale. He was 30 years old, pausing to savor a June evening “when it was getting nice”… Read More
It’s not really the “new” Unitarian Universalist church in Belfast anymore. Ten years after a handful of Waldo County residents started meeting in a tiny building near the Belfast library, the congregation has grown to 90 members and has a permanent home in a former… Read More
Editor’s note: Voices is a weekly commentary by a panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. Years ago, on a Sunday morning, I rose early to savor the quiet city dawn of Cambridge, Mass. At 7:50 a.m. I was unaware… Read More
When Sue Bernard left her job as news anchor at Aroostook County’s only television station, she was on the air five times a week. By the end of the first month of her new job in Portland, she was on the air morning, noon and… Read More
Editor’s note: Voices is a weekly opinion column by a rotating panel of Maine columnists who explore issues affecting spirituality and religious life. Civil unions in Vermont, a Massachusetts court decision striking down a prohibition on homosexual marriage and the recent ordination of an openly… Read More
BANGOR – The Hammond Street Congregational Church has voted to become an officially open and affirming congregation. The congregation has pledged to accept all participants “regardless of their background, circumstances, ethni-“city, gender identity, family configuration or sexual orientation.” googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
BANGOR – A retreat examining a seven-fold path of Christian well-being will be held next month at Grace United Methodist Church. “Anchoring Your Well-Being: Christian Wholeness in a Fractured World” is designed to teach insights about enlivening spiritual and ethical life as a Christian, techniques… Read More
CAMDEN – A special program designed to help congregations and their ministers find renewal is allowing a local pastor to work a few months in a New York shelter for homeless youth. The Rev. Michael Gordon Rowe, rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, already is… Read More
ROCKLAND – Sally Landsburg savors the rituals of Hanukkah. The Jewish festival of lights revolves around a story of defiance, independence and a God who sustains his chosen people against all odds – ideas that resonate today as profoundly as they did more than 2,000… Read More
In celebration of its 150th anniversary, the home diocese for all of Maine’s Roman Catholics has published a 160-page official history. “The Catholic Church in the Land of the Holy Cross: A History of the Diocese of Portland, Maine” is an oversized book full of… Read More
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The novels of J.R.R. Tolkien captivated Brian Nolder long before he cracked open his Bible. He was in elementary school in Ohio when he discovered the “Lord of the Rings” fantasy novels that have captivated millions of readers and, more recently, moviegoers. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
Members of River City Wesleyan Church had been praying for years that God would lead them to a vacant building in a Bangor neighborhood. They wanted to be part of the community and be able to minister to their neighbors. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
BANGOR – Choir members from 17 Catholic churches in Hancock, Waldo and southern Penobscot counties early next month will present “Like Winter Waiting: An Advent Story,” a choral pageant by John Foley. It will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, and 3 p.m. Read More
BANGOR – After a two-year national search, Columbia Street Baptist Church found its new senior pastor less than 10 miles away. Peter K. Sprague, 47, was approved by the congregation earlier this month. He will deliver his first sermon from his new pulpit at 10:15… Read More
Worshippers attending Thanksgiving eve services at Grace United Methodist Church in Bangor will be showered with words of thanksgiving – literally. A mobile made of construction-paper letters spelling out love, prayer, God’s grace and 16 other things congregants are thankful for will hang suspended from… Read More
CAMDEN – As part of Tibet Week 2003, the Camden area chapter of Amnesty International will serve as host to nine Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in India next week. The men from Drepung Loseling Monastery will participate in a weeklong series of events,… Read More
GRAND LAKE STREAM – The white clapboard church is on a hill overlooking the town. It’s been there nearly 100 years. As the centennial of Union Congregational Church neared, the tiny congregation commissioned Mark Wren of Robbinston, an artist and carpenter, to design and install… Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. – Professional BMXer Bruce Crisman swoops up a concrete slope of Burnside Skate Park, hanging airborne for a moment before rushing down again. Looking on, Christian evangelist Luis Palau is full of admiration for their skill. “Wow,” he says. “Have you watched these… Read More
HOLDEN – A lot has changed in town over the past 175 years, but one thing has remained constant – the little white clapboard church located on the corner of Church Road and Rider’s Bluff. The Holden Congregational Church will celebrate its 175th anniversary on… Read More
AS MAINE VOTERS NEAR DECISIONS ON ALLOWING A RESORT CASINO IN SANFORD AND A RACING CASINO IN BANGOR, ANYONE SCANNING THE FAITH STATEMENTS AND WEB SITES OF A SLEW OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS WILL FIND PLENTY OF CAUTION LIGHTS – AND A FEW EXPLICIT STOP SIGNS. Read More
BANGOR – The pastor of one of eastern Maine’s largest churches announced Sunday that he is taking a three-month sabbatical to seek treatment for “a chronic alcohol dependency.” The Rev. Ron Durham, 57, founder of Abundant Life Church on Outer Broadway, said that he would… Read More
GLENBURN -Tom Jones is playing at a church near you. No, not that Tom Jones. This one lives in Glenburn, not L.A. He’s an expert with the piano, not the microphone. He performs for parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Orono, not middle-aged women… Read More
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BANGOR – The boy David faces down the giant Goliath with a steely gaze in his eyes. “You’re coming at me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin,” he says. “But I’m coming at you in the name of the Lord Tzavaot, the God… Read More
If she had known then what she knows now, Hilke de Vries would have brought more chocolate when she left Germany this summer to attend Bangor Theological Seminary. “At night, when you are studying and you don’t want to do something, you take some chocolate. Read More
BELFAST – St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church has scheduled a six-week historical liturgy series for its Sunday worship services. The series, which begins Sunday, is designed to help people “see and experience first hand how Christian liturgy has changed and adapted over 2,000 years of worship… Read More
JONESBORO – A dream of growing is becoming a reality for churchgoers at Jonesboro Union Church. A 36-by-48-foot activity building that will provide space for Sunday school classes and a kitchen for church suppers is being added to the building. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… Read More
PORTLAND – A historic church in the city’s Munjoy Hill neighborhood will serve as the cathedral in the regional diocese of a church established some three decades ago by dissidents dismayed by liberal trends within the Episcopal Church. The selection of Old St. Paul’s Parish… Read More
HANCOCK – Three members of the Episcopal Church in Millinocket this week accepted the Anglican Church’s invitation to attend a diocesan meeting at the White Birches Resort, but say they aren’t planning to switch denominations yet. Mary Dore, Lorranine Leavitt and Gene Pease, all members… Read More
PORTLAND – The Portland Catholic Diocese is responding too slowly and too secretly to claims of sexual abuse by priests, say victim advocates who have pushed for disclosure. But church officials say the advocates are sometimes pushing the issue too far. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
CASTINE – The Rev. Bill Friederich was no stranger to the Maine Maritime Academy campus last April when he was appointed as the part-time, volunteer chaplain. As part of the mission of the Trinitarian Congregational Parish of Castine, where he is the full-time minister, Friederich… Read More
BANGOR – With the arrival of one of the largest entering classes in Husson College’s history, work has begun for the Rev. Robert Carlson. The college’s chaplain officially switched from part-time to full-time status in January. And now that school is back in session, Carlson… Read More
ORONO – The new campus minister at the Catholic Newman Center ended up here by accident. A new job was not what Casey Murphy intended to find when she was searching the Internet a month ago, but in two weeks she packed up her husband… Read More
ORONO – After a three-month interim, the Wilson Center at the University of Maine has a new chaplain. Timoth Sylvia, 31, however, says he wants students doing much of the work. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
BANGOR – For almost 200 years, Bangor Theological Seminary has trained pastors to minister in the churches large and small that dot New England’s countryside. Essential to that process since the school’s founding in 1814 has been the practice of sending students into the pulpits… Read More
They came from places such as Grand Isle, Vt., and Coldbrook, N.H. They arrived by the carload from Maine towns and villages such as Auburn, Boothbay, Dexter and Ripley. More than 400 strong, they descended on a plot of prime land in Bucksport overlooking Route… Read More
They knock on doors, invite themselves in and, if you aren’t home, leave their literature in your mailbox. Since their organization’s founding, Jehovah’s Witnesses have faced rude rejection and government persecution around the world for their aggressive evangelism. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
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BELFAST – Sister Elizabeth Wagner will present a four-day course on Thomas Merton from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays Sept. 6, Oct. 4, Nov. 1 and Dec. 6 at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, 95 Court St. Merton, a Trappist monk and author, achieved prominence… Read More
CAMDEN – Karen McPhee, a protege of author Eckhart Tolle, will host a public talk at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, at the John Street Methodist Church. She also will host a two-day retreat Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 20-21, in Rockport. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
HOULTON – A two-day circuit assembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses will be held from 9:45 a.m. to 3:55 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 6-7, at the Houlton Civic Center. The program is designed to encourage Christians to maintain and deepen their spiritual relationships with Jehovah God. Read More
Gloria Hutchinson wasn’t sure how readers would react to the idea of connecting their everyday lives to the exalted mysteries of the rosary. In the introduction to her book, “Praying the Rosary: New Reflections on the Mysteries,” she describes the work as “an attempt to… Read More
Reciting the rosary The rosary, the most common devotional prayer of Roman Catholicism, evolved after centuries of development. It involves recitation and meditation, with a person using a string of hand-held beads to keep count. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
Nearly 350 years after the first Roman Catholic missionaries arrived in what is now Washington County, a Passamaquoddy boy learned to recite the most powerful words of his religion – in English. Another 50 years would pass before Allen Sockabasin would learn to recite the… Read More
BELFAST – A local organization will be host later this month to the chief lama at a Buddhist monastery in rural Nepal who is visiting the United States this summer. Dorge Lopon Rinpoche is the chief lama at the small Maratika monastery near the sacred… Read More
The chapel at Bangor Theological Seminary has stood watch over the neighborhood bordered by Union and Ohio streets and West Broadway for 189 years. It’s a place where kids gather in the shadow of the chapel steeple to sled down the gently sloping hill after… Read More
BANGOR – As one brother comes home, another one leaves. Their paths do cross for a moment or two, but soon the three go their individual ways. That’s the way of life for a Bangor family with three sons who have served – or are… Read More
INDIAN ISLAND – Among Bishop Joseph Gerry’s most cherished possessions is an eagle feather given to him long ago by a Penobscot Indian woman. He received the gift from a tribal elder, who told him that to give someone an eagle feather meant the giver valued the life… Read More
Blanche Curtis kept interrupting herself to wave and talk to the children moving past her in the hall at First United Methodist Church in Bangor. Curtis, 82, was able to pick up a story describing how to make an angel out of washcloths right where… Read More
BANGOR – Paul Baker is brushing up on his German, practicing conversations like a tourist. He’s also translating Bible passages from English into German. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i… Read More
CALAIS – People may have to bring their own chairs, but members of the Second Baptist Church are determined to hold the first worship service in their new building by this Christmas Eve. Two years after a fire seriously damaged their old brick church –… Read More
BANGOR – Summer is the traditional season for organ music in Europe. Shoppers at bustling outdoor markets take a break from the warm temperatures and heated haggles with vendors to listen to organs playing in the cool shade of a nearby church. A Bangor organist… Read More
The first of July traditionally marks the transition point for Roman Catholic priests who are being reassigned. Following is a list of 2003 reassignments. It was released by Bishop Joseph Gerry of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, which comprises the entire state. The Rev. Read More
HARPSWELL – The Unitarian Universalist Association has named the Rev. Dr. Spencer Lavan of Harpswell as the recipient of its 2003 Distinguished Service Award. Lavan will accept the award at a ceremony at the association’s annual General Assembly on June 29 in Boston. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
MACHIAS – The structural beauty of Centre Street Congregational Church is obvious from the moment a visitor crests College Hill on the way into town and catches sight of the magnificent white steeple. But the community services that endear the church to people in the… Read More