Posts by Susan Sherrill Axelrod

Dio Maine Cooks: Baked Fish Chowder

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....

The Unthinkable – A Prayer

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...

Play Maine Summer Chapel Bingo!

  Did you know that Maine has the most summer chapels—17—of any state in the country?! To encourage you to visit them, we thought we’d channel both your Episcopal and your competitive spirit in a...

Graduating to the Next Chapter of Life

Sarah Harris delivered this reflection at St. Columba’s, Boothbay Harbor’s service for Youth Sunday on May 24, 2026, to mark her graduation from Boothbay Region High School. The valedictorian of her class, she will attend...