The Rev. Christina Sillari joins us from Portland, Maine. She served First Parish Church in Portland for eleven years as their settled minister. Contact her at: .
We’ve been working hard to re-create a robust Fellowship over the past two years. Let’s take time to appreciate all that we have done and to to commit ourselves to restoring the relationships that have been damaged along the way.
A series of legal challenges to Roe vs Wade means that abortion laws may soon be determined by individual states. How will liberal churches organize to ensure people continued access to safe and legal care? This service is part of a statewide Sabbath for Reproductive Justice organized by the Maine Council of Churches.
We’re still far from the vision of the Beloved Community Martin Luther King Jr. preached more than a half-century ago. What gets in the way? Might we need to confront some resistance within our own liberal circles? I suggest that it is our corporate responsibility, as people of faith, not only to ask for forgiveness … Continue reading Making Amends
In small groups, we’ll explore our own experiences of forgiving and being forgiven. We’ll focus especially on how we recognize when we have been forgiven and how we show forgiveness to others.
This is the time we set intentions, seeking to chart a course for the year to come. Let’s add a hefty dose of self-compassion to the process. Let’s forgive ourselves in advance for the resolutions made and broken… for all the things we strive to be and are not. How about this resolution for 2022? … Continue reading We Begin Again In Love
