Did you know that demographers have categorized a new generation: the Star Wars Generation? These are people born between 1977 and 1983. They’re the younger siblings of GenXers and the older siblings of Millennials. When...
Sermon delivered at Christ Church, Gardiner October 27, 2024 Good morning. My name is John Hennessy. I am the public policy director of the Diocese of Maine and the co-chair of the public policy committee...
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...
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...
Update June 16, 2025: The Maine legislature has defeated all eight of the anti-transgender bills! The Episcopal Church has taken an unequivocal and strong position in support of trans, non-binary, and two-spirit people. We have...
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....
In this Advent video, Bishop Brown says, “Let’s speak words and use sign language and every other tool we can to speak a word of hope and glory even if it feels out of place.”...
In his latest book, Macauley Lord explores how we heal from moral injury In the video, a purple sea of applauding bishops clusters around Macauley Lord as he steps to a microphone in the center...