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Samaa Abdurraqib, an African American Muslim feminist, was born in New York, grew up in Ohio, and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Samaa came to Maine in 2010 as an assistant professor at Bowdoin College. Currently, she’s…

Sage Hayes, who uses she, he and they pronouns, is a white bodied practitioner of somatic alchemy. They are dedicated to working towards collective healing and liberation. Sage grew up and is currently living on unceded territories of the Wampanoag…

Richard Waitzkin is a psychotherapist and one of the founders of Portland’s new and terribly exciting Equality Community Center, which houses organizations serving the LBGTQ+ community, including Equality Maine, Maine TransNet, GLSEN, and SAGE Maine,…

In 2014, a magazine ran a feature story with this intriguing title: “Fifteen American Rabbis You Haven’t Heard of, But Should.” Rabbi Rachel Isaacs is one of those unsung – or formerly unsung – fifteen. Happily, those of us in Maine know her and…

Rabbi Jared Saks, a New Jersey native, is the spiritual leader of Congregation Bet Ha’am in South Portland, the largest reform congregation in northern New England, where he has served since 2011. He lives in South Portland with his husband Kirk and…

Ophelia Hu Kinney (she/her/hers) is the wife of a fearless reformer, the daughter of loving immigrants, and the sister of a hopeful romantic. She is the Director of Communications at Reconciling Ministries Network, an organization advancing LGBTQ…

Myke Johnson, author of 'Finding Our Way Home: A Spiritual Journey into Earth Community,' describes herself as a lesbian mystic, earth activist, and retired Unitarian Universalist minister. Myke lives in Portland Maine with her partner Margy and two…

Marpheen Chann is a Portland-based thinker, writer, educator, and speaker on social justice, equity, and inclusion. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Southern Maine and a law degree from the University of Maine…

Rev. Dr. Lynn Bujnak is an ordained United Church of Christ pastor who currently serves as the Vermont Conference Minister serving UCC congregations throughout the Green Mountain state. Before her move to Vermont with her wife Peg, Lynn served…

Rev. Kit Wang is an Episcopal priest in Maine. Kit identifies as a queer, trans, Chinese-American child of God. Kit moved to New England for college, and never left, attending Yale Divinity School and eventually moving to Maine in 2004. Kit serves on…

Rev. Jennifer Paty is the Director of Pilgrim Lodge Camp and Retreat Center, an outdoors ministry of the Maine Conference of the United Church of Christ. The team that hired her said this of her: “Jen’s strong leadership, excellent ministry and…

"If Not for Others, What Am I?" is 8" x 6", acrylic and paper collage on canvas by Howard Solomon. Solomon created it in 2018, along with two other pieces of the same dimensions and mediums, "If Not for Myself, Who Will Be for Me?" and "And If Not…

Howard Solomon is an academic historian and community activist who, in an earlier life, served for over 30 years on the faculty of Tufts University and taught courses on European history, the history of sexuality, and the history of stereotyping. …

Originally from Illinois, Gail Hovey is an editor, writer, and a longtime friend of Marvin Ellison ever since she edited an early publication of his back in the day. Like Tamara Torres-McGovern and Marvin, Gail is a seminary graduate. All three of…

Effie McAvoy’s Twitter handle is “The Reverend with Rage: ‘Proud and Out’ Jesus Follower, Wife, Mother, Pastor, Police Chaplain – working for the transformation of the world, one soul at a time.” A California native, Effie moved to North Carolina in…

Chris Davis grew up in Bangor and is a relatively recent arrival in Portland. She attends college as an adult learner and works part-time while also parenting two young adults from a distance, one of whom identifies as transgender. In recent years…

Christephor Gilbert is pastor of St. Ansgar Lutheran Church in Portland. He hails from Louisville, Kentucky, is a graduate of Bard College in upstate New York, and completed his ministry studies in Chicago, but ministry is perhaps Christephor’s…

Rev. Christina Cataldo is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She is a native of East Tennessee, but followed her wife here, to Maine, where she serves a small but soulful and scrappy congregation in Winthrop, and where she serves…

Bobbi Keppel is an educator, activist, writer, and lover of folk music, who co-founded a Folk Song Society when she lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and in more recent years has belonged to a hospice choir singing to people in end-of-life care. Originally…

On June 22, 2019, the Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Brown was ordained and consecrated as the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine – the first openly gay man to be elected to that church office in this state. (The Maine diocese is made up of more…