Religion & Spirituality
Open, yes, but committed to values, too Saturday, July 07, 2007 The founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement was Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. |
Couple leaving post at Salvation Army Saturday, June 23, 2007 Majs. Douglas and Deborah Burr, who have served as the apostolic team at the center in Bangor for seven years, have been assigned to Rhode Island |
 Voices: Messiah's name certain to test faithsSaturday, June 23, 2007 Though few in this country have heard about it, there is a storm brewing over a message penned by a revered Israeli rabbi mystic and what it implies for both Jewish and Christian believers. |
 Voices: The difference between God’s smite and bad luckSaturday, June 16, 2007 God or luck seems to have forsaken the Yankees this year, much to the pleasure of most folks up here. |
Religion in brief Saturday, June 16, 2007 "Captivated Bold and Beautiful" conference for girls between 12 and 19 will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 23, at Jeff's Catering. |
 Pagans are the Rodney Dangerfields of religion Saturday, June 09, 2007 Pagans are the Rodney Dangerfields of religion - they get no respect. Just as the comedian constantly crusaded to improve the esteem in which he was held, so too are earth-centered faiths trying to move from the fringes of the sacred closer to the mainstream. |
Voices: A sacred gift in a rock filled with resources Saturday, April 28, 2007 According to the anthropological timeline, we did the hunter-gatherer thing long before we did the agriculture thing. Those old hunter-gatherers lived awful, violent, short lives. They were what we call simple people. |
Voices: Darwin versus the Bible Saturday, April 14, 2007 Now don’t get me wrong — I’m not one of those people who claim we can prove the existence of God through science. |
 'Encountering the Spirit' - knitted, sculpted and filmed - at seminary exhibitSaturday, April 14, 2007 Long before Terry Given decided to take classes at Bangor Theological Seminary, she wrote, under a photograph of Mount Katahdin, "I will lift my eyes to the hills." |