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Published
August 27, 2023

Beth Israel Synagogue in Waterville raises $3.3 million for renovation, other needs

Several upgrades are nearing completion as the synagogue, which opened in 1958 at 291 Main St., is set to begin a new chapter serving the region's Jewish community.
Published
July 30, 2023

Our View: Hate groups tear at the seams of our country

White supremacists, and the politicians who have pulled them into the mainstream, are a growing threat.
Published
June 14, 2023

Southern Baptists refuse to take back megachurch because it has female pastors

The statement of faith of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination asserts that only qualified men can serve as pastors.
Published
June 14, 2023

Federal lawsuit challenges Maine’s limits on public funding for religious schools

The Catholic Diocese of Portland, St. Dominic Academy in Auburn and parents of a student from Whitefield say the state's tuition program discriminates against religious schools.
Published
June 10, 2023

Commentary: Faith-based communities have a role to play in strengthening democracy

Our approach envisions a shared future and supports a framework for civic action but empowers individual communities to engage in the ways that are most meaningful and effective for them.

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Published
June 4, 2023

Commentary: Resistance to abortion rights is about keeping women down

I consider the value of a potential life against the value of a woman’s lived life to the point she becomes pregnant, and I come down on the side of that lived life.
Published
May 9, 2023

Celebrating ‘The Month of Mary’

Holy Martyrs Church in Falmouth holds a special ceremony.
Published
April 24, 2023

Spiritual center in Biddeford Pool to close after 45 years

The building, which sits near the beach and is assessed at $2.9 million, will be sold. The remaining 13 sisters will move to New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Published
April 9, 2023

The Maine Millennial: No public mission, no public money

It’s the Bangor Christian School's style of faith that has turned my generation away from organized religion.
Published
April 9, 2023

Maine Voices: Consider Jesus’ preferred pronouns, and true regard for the other

In Maine and elsewhere, transphobic legislation seeks to enshrine a dangerous and unorthodox notion of religious freedom.