MCC’s Spring 2024 Newsletter
MCC’s Spring 2024 Newsletter
Whether you read the print edition that arrives in your mailbox, or the digital version available through the link, you’ll see that we let our work speak for itself through our newsletter.
STAND-UP FOR MCC
Comedy for A Cause!
Featuring Social Media Sensation Chip Leighton
One night only: Friday, May 10, 7:30pm
UUCB Hall, 1 Middle Street, Brunswick
This morning MCC has issued a statement in response to remarks made on the floor of the Maine House of Representatives on Wednesday evening.
The Maine Council of Churches unequivocally condemns those claims, and we join our voices with Rep. Henderson in countering that horrific, harmful theology with the clear message that God is a God of love and compassion.
READ THE FULL STATEMENT HERE
“Building Hope”
Online Panel Discussion
Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 6:30 PM
The new documentary film, “BUILDING HOPE,” brings a compelling message to audiences around Maine and beyond: there is hope for ending the suffering of homelessness.
Click here to learn more and register
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month
Raising awareness is a critical and foundational step in preventing child abuse. Child Abuse Prevention Month is our opportunity to build support for what we know must happen year round: … learn more
You can’t get to Easter without walking through a graveyard
Though some say that Christians treat death as if it were just a simple freeing of the soul from the prison of the body, a quick transition to blissful immortality, because they believe Easter gives them some kind of cosmic “get out of jail free” card that spares true believers from the sting of death, nothing could be further from the truth.
Lent: a season for compass adjustment
I wonder: without checking your smartphone, can you point toward the north right now? I’ll confess, I couldn’t do it without using my phone or the compass built into my car.
BURYING ALLELUIA
A Lenten Spiritual Practice
We get a lot of other things about Lent from the church of the Middle Ages, too. One of the more interesting traditions is the “depositio” of alleluias, the discontinuing or refraining from use of the word “Alleluia” in worship and song during the 40 days of Lent. You’ve heard of “giving up something for Lent.” Well, the church gives up its Alleluias for Lent.
Read more about this special ritual…
