2021 Diocesan Resolution 3 for Territorial Acknowledgement Wabanaki REACH Statement on Land Acknowledgement at https://www.mainewabanakireach.org/acknowledging_the_land Dawnland Signals program on WERU-FM about land acknowledgements (11/19/20) at https://archives.weru.org/?s=dawnland+signals Land (and water) acknowledgement by the University of Southern...
By the Grace of God and with the consent of the people The Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Brown, Tenth Bishop of Maine will ordain Andree Appel to the Diaconate in Christ’s one holy catholic and...
Update February 20, 2023 Jane Field of the Maine Council of Churches and I participated in a call with state officials from the Governor’s office, the Department of Health and Human Services, Portland legislators, the...
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Help us keep in contact with, and providing resources to, members of congregational leadership! The Annual Congregational Report to the Bishop is the best tool we have to keep our contact information up to date and ready to use...
How should parishes celebrate Earth Day (April 22) and Earth Week (April 17-23) this year? The Diocese of Maine’s Climate Justice Council suggests that we look to the Wabanaki experience as they respond to the...
Trinity Church in Portland has begun hosting three families of asylum seekers. They will be sleeping and living at Trinity for two weeks in conjunction with the organization Family Promise. It is a joy that...
Christ Transfigured This image was created for the season of Epiphany, 2023. As I thought about the themes inherent to the season, and looked at the various gospel readings for this year, I found myself...
Below you will find the first draft of the legislative tracking document and my notes from Advocacy Days. The tracking document is not set up with active links to the legislative documents – yet. I...
January 15, 2024 The second session of the Maine Legislature is off and running. Having carried over a record number of bills from the first session and adding another 100 or so “Emergency” bills, every...