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April 24, 2022
Earth Day Sermon “To Till and Keep the Earth”
To Till and Keep the Earth A sermon preached at St. Brendan the Navigator Episcopal Church, Deer Isle, MaineFirst Sunday after Easter, Year C, April 24 2022 Celebrating Earth Day (April 22) Texts: Genesis 2:4b-25...
March 30, 2022
Sacred Spaces and Thin Places: A conversation with John Bell
The Rev. Holly Hoffmann, Priest in Charge of St. Saviour’s, Bar Harbor, Church of Our Father, Hulls Cove, and St. Andrew and St. John, Southwest Harbor, along with Pastor Rob Benson of Bar Harbor Congregational...
March 9, 2022
Ways to Support Those Suffering from Violence in Ukraine
Continue to pray for Ukraine and those in danger Collect for Peace from the BCP: Almighty God, kindle, we pray, in every heart the true love of peace, and guide with your wisdom those who...
March 7, 2022
On Sacred Ground: Personal Transformation Leads to Sacred Ground Program Expansion
The national “Becoming Beloved Community” newsletter recently included this column about Caroline Russell, a St. Paul’s, Brunswick parishioner until her death in December 2021, and her relationship with the Sacred Ground program. Sometimes a transformation...
February 27, 2022
Episcopal Maine Youth ice fishing success
Episcopal Maine Youth met with huge ice fishing was success in February! They give a big thank you to their fearless leader, Macauley, for taking them out to Pleasant Pond in Litchfield. They caught plenty...
February 23, 2022
Interview with The Rev. Amanda Gerken-Nelson
St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Yarmouth introduces the congregation to their new Priest in Charge, Amanda Gerken-Nelson in this short video.
February 20, 2022
New Sarah’s House video features fellow Episcopalians
Here’s a beautiful video highlighting Sarah’s House in Holden, Maine which provides a “home away from home” for cancer patients in our corner of the state and further north. Sarah’s House of Maine Video Pat...
February 15, 2022
Diocesan Convention: How Many Lay Delegates Should My Church Elect?
How Many Lay Delegates Should My Congregation Elect for the 2022 Diocesan Convention? Your congregation’s lay delegation to the 2022 convention should be identical to 2021 and 2020. We continue to calculate representation based upon...
February 2, 2022
Calculating Lay Delegates for the 2022 Diocesan Convention
How Many Lay Delegates Should My Congregation Elect for the 2022 Diocesan Convention? Your congregation’s lay delegation to the 2022 convention should be identical to 2021 and 2020. We continue to calculate representation based upon...
January 24, 2022
Canon to the Ordinary’s 2022 sabbatical
Over the last several years I have been working on a plan to support the work of clearing unexploded ordnance in Laos. Laos is a small country in between Thailand and Vietnam and is profoundly contaminated by...