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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…

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…

Al Cleveland is a young, queer, non-binary person living here, in Portland, Maine. They are a religious socialist following the Christian mystical tradition. After growing up in the church and leaving the church, they discovered a new spiritual home…

Carter Heyward is an educator and widely published author, an Episcopal priest, liberation theologian, and justice advocate who for many years spent summer months on Deer Isle and now lives in retirement in western North Carolina after teaching for…