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Muslim activists want more transparency
BOSTON Muslim groups and civil rights activists across the nation are calling for greater transparency in a program by President Barack Obama’s administration that’s aimed at countering homegrown terrorism. The organizers spoke out Thursday through coordinated efforts in Boston, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, the three cities where the Countering Violent Extremism program is being piloted. […]
Trusting God When Life Hurts
“We are all under the Mercy, and Christ knows the precise weight and proportion of our sufferings — he bore them. He carried our sorrows. He suffered, not that we might not suffer, but that our sufferings might be like his,” wrote the 19th century Scottish author George MacDonald. I came across this quote in […]
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Hoy presiding over Orr’s service ORR’S ISLAND — Rev. Mary Ann Hoy will preside over the service Sunday, Aug. 2, at All Saint’s Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane, off Harpswell Islands Road/ Route 24 on Orr’s Island. Services take place at the church at 9 a.m. Sundays, through Sept. 27. Babson presiding over Islands […]
Hope Haitian Children’s Choir performs at Nazarene
WISCASSET Sixteen girls and boys from Haiti, singing and dancing, will be performing at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 2, at the Wiscasset Church of the Nazarene, 255 Gardiner Road, Wiscasset. The choir is in its third year and its tour includes presentations in New England, New York and New Jersey, as well as concerts in […]
Trusting God When Life Hurts
I was seven months pregnant when my husband, Dana, walked through the door and wearily announced that he’d been laid off — again. It was the second time in three years, a result of the huge downturn in the housing market that accompanied the Great Recession. At the time we had four children, ages 4 […]
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Shaver presiding over Orr’s service ORR’S ISLAND — Rev. Ellen Shaver will preside over the service Sunday, July 26, at All Saint’s Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane, off Harpswell Islands Road/Route 24 on Orr’s Island. Services take place at the church at 9 a.m. Sundays, through Sept. 27. Niese presiding over Bailey service BAILEY […]
Trusting God When Life Hurts
As if being mistaken for a boy and wearing my brother’s hand-me-downs wasn’t awkward enough, growing up I was cross-eyed and wore glasses. When kids called me “four eyes,” their words added one more wound to my already hurting heart. At night, curling up in bed on our Oregon farm, I often prayed. One night […]