FREEPORT — The Lighthouse Events has announced tickets for several 2015 concerts are now on sale. Tickets can be purchased and printed online. The “Who You Are” tour, featuring Unspoken, Jonny Diaz and The JJ Weeks Band, will come to Waldoboro and Augusta on Jan. 25 and 27, respectively. General admission tickets are $20. American […]

BATH — A service of installation for Rev. Kimberly S. Merrill, the newly appointed lead pastor at Bath Church of the Nazerene, will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4. She was appointed to the position on Nov. 26, 2014. A reception will follow the ceremony in the Fellowship Hall, located on Center Street […]

NEW DELHI, India In small-town northern India, Muslims are offered food and money to convert to Hinduism. If that doesn’t suffice, they say they’re threatened. Across the country, the Christmas holiday is canceled for hundreds of government servants who spend the day publicly extolling the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Powerful Hindu nationalist leaders […]

A Jewish rabbi and a Presbyterian pastor are uniting together in hopes of making the world a better place. Rabbi Daniel Cohen of Congregation Agudath Sholom, Stamford, Conn., and Pastor Greg Doll of Norton Presbyterian Church, Darien, Conn., created the Elijah Moment Campaign to encourage people to put aside their differences and simply help each […]

NEWCASTLE — There will be a Fourth Sunday Damariscotta Area Shape Note Singing on Sunday, Dec. 28, from 2-5 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church, 11 Glidden St. Participants will meet in the undercroft. The shapenote singing is a free, participatory event, not a performance. No experience is necessary and beginners are welcomed. Singing will be […]

BRUNSWICK — Financial Peace University, Dave Ramsey’s nine-week money management class, will be offered beginning Jan. 11 at 5 p.m. on Sundays at Maine Street Baptist Church. This isn’t a typical money class, but is based on more than 800 verses of scripture and is a proven plan that really works. It is video driven […]

Finding comfort even amidst loss “I would have despaired, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living,” those words, written 3,000 years ago by the Psalmist David, were my prayer through my mom’s six-month cancer journey. I prayed God would heal her. Oh, how, […]

BRUNSWICK — Financial Peace University, Dave Ramsey’s nine-week money management class, will be offered beginning Jan. 11 at 5 p.m. on Sundays at Maine Street Baptist Church. This isn’t a typical money class, but is based on more than 800 verses of Scripture and is a proven plan that really works. It is video driven […]

WEST BATH — The Dzogchen Meditation Center presents a free public talk today, followed by a weekend meditation retreat. “Shamatha Meditation: The Practice of Resting in Awareness” is the retreat theme. The public talk, “Nine Techniques for Resting the Mind,” begins at 7 p.m. tonight. The retreat continues Saturday and Sunday. “The point here is […]