The outreach effort leaders are launching signals an ‘end of the snobbishness’ the church has confined itself to, says a former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II.
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Maine Voices: Dealing with immigration, America must overcome its loss of nerve
The U.S. has never been a perfect nation, but we can aspire to a vision more sublime than money, power and arrogance.
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Dana Milbank: Supreme Court decision upholding travel ban validates religious discrimination
Somehow Justice Roberts and four colleagues found Trump wasn’t seeking to bar Muslims despite the president’s obvious actions otherwise.
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Maine Voices: Punishment shouldn’t be used to help people fight hunger, find jobs
A Legislature that puts up barriers making it harder for people to access food is immoral and unjust.
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Maine church organization expresses its outrage over separation of families at the border
The Maine Council of Churches objects to the Bible being cited by the Trump administration to justify its policy.
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Here’s how liberals, conservatives picture God
Liberals imagine someone ‘more feminine, younger and more loving,’ while conservatives have a ‘powerful’ white guy in mind, researchers say.
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Our View: Court ruling won’t affect Maine’s LGBT couples
The opinion is based on an unfair process used in a single case, not on a religion-based right to discriminate.
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Maine Voices: Chaplain grateful for Endangered Species Act
Pray that our congressional delegation recognizes and values the importance of this landmark law.
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Catholic diocese parts ways with the Maine Council of Churches
Bishop Robert Deeley says the council’s decision to take public stands based on majority votes by its members, rather than unanimous agreement, could leave the diocese supporting positions not grounded in the teachings of the church.
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Maine Voices: For me as a chaplain, Planned Parenthood’s name is blessed
The health center staff approaches their patients without judgment and with deep respect.