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Will Green is pastor of Brackett Memorial Church on Peaks Island. (For those who may not be familiar with Maine geography, Peaks Island is located in Casco Bay off Portland.)

A native of Worcester, MA, Will served United Methodist congregations…

Rev. Tamara Torres McGovern (she/her) is both a person of faith and a queer woman. She found her way to ministry following a path which included spiritual formation as a yoga instructor, holistic cook, folk musician, and massage therapist. She has a…

Skyler Keiter-Massefski grew up in South Portland and is now minister of faith formation at the South Church in Amherst, Massachusetts. On its website South Church Amherst describes itself as “an Open and Affirming, Immigrant Welcoming, [and] Green…

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,…

Rev. Virginia Marie Rincon is an Episcopal priest, a ritual weaver, a Curandera an activist and an advocate. After 20 years as a nurse in the public sector, Rev. Virginia went back to school there she earned a BLS in Social Work from St. Edward's…

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…

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. 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…

Rev. Amanda Gerken-Nelson is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, a non-profit that believes the public witness of LGBTQIA+ ministers…

Rev. Alexis Fuller-Wright is an ordained United Church of Christ pastor and currently serves as the Associate Conference Minister serving UCC congregations throughout the Maine Conference. Before her wise decision to move here, she served…

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…

Original pitch to WMPT for the Queer Spirit podcast show from 2019.

This is a teaching resource (lesson plan) for the Queer Spirit Podcast exhibit. It uses a selection of podcast episodes to explore the intersection of spirituality and sexuality.