The Second Week of Lent 2025 A Fox in the Henhouse
On the Second Sunday of Lent, we hear how Jesus was warned that Herod Antipas was out to get him. He was advised to run away and hide, to stay safe. His response? “You tell that old fox I am doing the work I’m called to do and I’ll go wherever God wants me to go.”
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?”
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
Interfaith Prayer Service
Commemorating the Anniversary of the Lewiston Mass Shooting
Tuesday, October 1, 10am, in Augusta
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.
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.
