Committed to Listen:Observing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2025
An in-person performance of “The Malaga Ship: A Story of Maine and the Middle Passage” by Antonio Rocha
Monday, January 20, 2025
12 pm (Eastern)
In person at HopeGateWay Church
515 Woodford Street, Portland, Maine
Advent 2024 – Saints of the Season – Joseph the Silent Saint
Don’t you just love the weekly radio show, “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” the NPR news quiz? One holiday season a few years ago, Peter Sagal, the host, posed this question to panelist Tom Bodett, “People are always looking at predictors for kids to see how they’re going to fare later in life. Well, one new study out of the U.K. shows that a surprisingly reliable predictor is what your child did – what role they had—in what common childhood activity?”
Here We Are. Send Us!
Join us on Tuesday, January 14, at 4pm, for the first in a series of online “town hall” gatherings to discuss ways Maine’s communities of faith can be prepared to respond when vulnerable groups are targeted by the new administration. We will focus specifically on effective strategies for 4 especially vulnerable groups: immigrants, LGBTQ folks, women seeking reproductive health care, and the environment. Registration for this free online event is required to receive the Zoom link.
Annual Homeless Persons Memorial Vigil
Friday, December 20, 4:30 p.m.
20 Portland St., Portland Maine 04101
Saints of the Season
Advent has begun again—that season of expectation when we anticipate the arrival of “God-with-skin-on,” the Christ child lying in a manger, asleep on the hay. Everything is about the big countdown—in church, we count the weeks: 1st week of Advent, 2nd
Opinion: Christian values should not be used to punish difference, dissent
The Rev. Dr. Marvin Ellison made the FRONT PAGE of the opinion section of the Maine Sunday Telegram on October 20 with a beautiful and compelling essay you won’t want to miss!
