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August 25, 2026

Visioning Day Guides Council in Setting Goals

by Rev. Annette Joseph

From left: Steve Ward, Rev. Chris Warne, John Maddaus, Rev. Ted Kanellakis, Sister Gobnait, Mary Beth DiMarco, Richard Farnsworth, Rev. Annette Joseph, Rev. Myrna Koonce, Patricia Welton, and Elizabeth Maddaus. On Saturday, Aug. 8 the...

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August 20, 2026

Youth from Seven Dioceses Gather in Maine for Inaugural Climate Justice Event

From June 29 through July 1, about 50 young people and their adult chaperones from Province 1 and beyond participated in the first-ever Climate Justice Youth Event (CJYE), held at the Schoodic Institute in Winter...

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August 11, 2026

Dio Maine Cooks: Baked Fish Chowder

by Susan Sherrill Axelrod

The Communications Department launched “Dio Maine Cooks: Recipes and Stories from Vintage Church Cookbooks” in January 2025 as a way to explore the history of Maine’s Episcopal churches through the cookbooks in our diocesan archives....

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August 10, 2026

The Unthinkable – A Prayer

by Rev. Stephanie Batterman

Rev. Batterman wrote this prayer in response to the fatal shooting of Joan Sebastián Guerrero by ICE agents in Biddeford. The Unthinkable Lord, we thought we were safe from our own government. We believed that...

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August 4, 2026

Visits with Maine Tribes Help Rebuild Connection for Council on Indigenous Relations

by Rev. Annette Joseph

On July 1, five members of the Council on Indigenous Relations (CIR) and three members of the Friends Committee on Maine Public Policy met with leaders from the Maliseet and Mi’kmaq tribes. The day marked...

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