BRUNSWICK — Earl Redman and Arnie Besier of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church recently stopped by Tedford Housing to present the 50th donation since 2012 from their “Bucket Brigade” to Craig Phillips. The buckets of cleaning supplies are given to families as they leave Tedford’s family shelter for their own home. The project is spearheaded by […]

BRUNSWICK — On Feb. 1, First Parish Church, UCC, kicked off a six-week educational series titled “Windows On … Food” with a tour of Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. Executive Director Karen Parker and Program Director Ethan Minton spoke about the organization’s work and answered questions before showing people around the facilities, including dining hall, […]

Fighting back with joy We often talk of fighting cancer, of fighting to overcome addiction, of fighting to save a marriage or of fighting for our life. These words make me think of boxing gloves and raised fists. Of battling hard and getting bruised and maybe losing a few teeth. Christian author Margaret Feinberg, named […]

True faith requires action There may be no more of a life-altering event than losing a parent. I lost my father to divorce when I was 5. Now, more than three decades later, my mother is gone from cancer. Rather than losing a person, I feel as if I have lost my homeland — the […]

WISCASSET — Tim Connelly will perform in concert Sunday, Jan. 25, during the 11 a.m. service at the Wiscasset Church of the Nazarene, 255 Gardiner Road. Connelly has been singing since he was 7 years old. He has been ministering in gospel music as a soloist for the past three years, formerly singing with Heaven’s […]

WALDOBORO — The “Who Are You” tour, featuring Unspoken and Jonny Diaz, will be stopping in Maine for four concerts beginning Sunday. The first stop is Sunday, Jan. 25, at 6 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Waldoboro. The tour hits northern Maine on Tuesday, Jan. 27, visiting Caribou Performing Arts Center before returning to […]

BRUNSWICK — During Maine Catholic Schools Week (Jan. 25-31), students at St. John’s Catholic School are hoping to turn pennies into dollars, and dollars into cures. On Monday, Jan. 26, the school will kick off Pennies for Patients, a weeklong program in which students will collect and donate pennies in a “grade against grade” competition […]

JERUSALEM A 200-year-old Torah scroll has taken an unusual and mysterious journey from Baghdad to Jerusalem, where it was greeted with candies and song in a jubilant dedication ceremony Thursday. Israeli experts in Jewish scribal tradition who restored the Hebrew parchment say it was written two centuries ago by two different scribes in northern Iraq […]

Tilting the balance from sad to happy When life doesn’t go the way you hope, it’s easier to fall apart than to try and hold it all together. A loved one dies. A dream crumbles. Work overwhelms. What do you do? Who do you turn to? When my husband, Dana, and I tied the knot […]