Resource

Maine Paid Family and Medical Leave

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/maine-paid-family-and-medical-leave/

Since January, 2025, both Maine employers and employees have helped to fund the payroll contributions for this new state program. Benefits for this program began on May 1, 2026. Employees will need to apply directly...

Resource

The Pine Tree Essay: June 8, 2026

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/the-pine-tree-essay-june-8-2026/

Dear Friends in Christ, Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten. Working under strain, beset with worries, enmeshed in anxieties, one has no mind for ethereal beauty. But the spirit is...

Event

Restoration Laos: Restoring Hope, Restoring Safety

https://episcopalmaine.org/event/restorationlaos-presentation/

A Night of Conversation with the Rev. Canon Michael Ambler On Thursday, Jan. 23 at 7 p.m., join a conversation on Zoom to learn how a community of people in Maine has partnered with the...

Event

Walking Together for World Refugee Sunday

https://episcopalmaine.org/event/walking-together-for-world-refugee-sunday/

St. Mary’s in Falmouth invites all “Walking Together” parishes and parishioners to join a gathering in celebration and recognition of World Refugee Sunday. Speakers from Catholic Charities and In Her Presence—both in Portland—will provide an...

Blog Post

Creation Care Team Seeks New Members

https://episcopalmaine.org/creation-care-team-seeks-new-members/

The Diocesan Creation Care Team has an opportunity for new members to join us in our work. Our mission is to bear witness through the people of the Diocese of Maine to the need for justice in...

Blog Post

For Earth Day, Honor the Wabanaki’s Response to the Climate Crisis

https://episcopalmaine.org/for-earth-day-honor-the-wabanakis-response-to-the-climate-crisis/

How should parishes celebrate Earth Day (April 22) and Earth Week (April 17-23) this year? The Diocese of Maine’s Creation Care Team suggests that we look to the Wabanaki experience as they respond to the...

Blog Post

Remarks on Racial Justice to the 206th Annual Maine Diocesan Convention

https://episcopalmaine.org/remarks-on-racial-justice-to-the-206th-annual-maine-diocesan-convention/

The greatest question I ever heard was this: “What would your life look like if you followed Jesus?” Well, Jesus has led me to a mysterious beauty about racial justice that I could never have...

Staff Member

The Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Brown

https://episcopalmaine.org/about/bishop-and-staff/the-rt-rev-thomas-j-brown/

Bishop Brown is on sabbatical  June 24 and through October 2026. While he is away, Bishop Brown will neither receive nor be able to respond to emails, phone calls, or texts. He plans to spend...

Blog Post

A pastoral word from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on the death of Tyre Nichols

https://www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffairs/a-pastoral-word-from-presiding-bishop-michael-curry-on-the-death-of-tyre-nichols/?mc_cid=eb3f1ce26a&mc_eid=a9ee3b300d

"Jesus once told a story to teach about what it looks like to love one’s neighbor, which Moses and Jesus both said is a commandment of God. It’s a story about a man beaten nearly to death and left on the side of the road to die by people who knew what Moses taught about love for God and neighbor—and what the prophet Micah taught when he said that God requires three things of us: to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God." Presiding Bishop Michael Curry

Blog Post

Earth Keeper Update from St. Peter’s in Portland

https://episcopalmaine.org/earth-keeper-update-from-st-peters-in-portland/

It’s been a quiet time during these dark months. Now that Winter Solstice is over, we can put our hearts and minds toward spring!  We have a new member joining us, Meredith Tipton, and she is a...