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February 3, 2018

Never Too Old to Learn: Reconsidering an Old Method in Maritime Ministry

by Stefan Francke

A short time ago, I read Virginia Hoel’s monograph, Faith, Fatherland and the Norwegian Seaman. The work of the Norwegian Seamen’s Mission in Antwerp and the Dutch Ports 1864-1920 (Verloren, 2016). This study provides us with a beautiful insight into the

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Literature
February 2, 2018

What does shipping have to do with your faith? More than a little.

by Michael Skaggs

A new podcast teaches consumers a lesson in globalization, its promise, and its potential liabilities. Originally published in US Catholic. Most of us devote little thought to ocean-borne shipping. Yet it plays an enormous role in our lives, as around 90 percent of

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Literature
February 1, 2018

Book Review: The Remarkable Life of Father Charles McTague

by Jason Zuidema

Richard L. Byrnes, Christ with a Priest’s Face: Spirituality in Action: The Remarkable Life of Father Charles Hubert McTague. 2002. 139pp.   As the continuous stream of container trucks rumble past, the Stella Maris Chapel on Corbin St. in Port Newark, NJ

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Literature
January 26, 2018

Book Review: History of Norwegian Seafarers’ Welfare

by Jason Zuidema

Roald Evensen, Terje J. Eriksen and Bjørn Lødøen, Velferden – Historien om States Velferdskontor for Handelsflåten. Sofiemyr: Bjørgu Forlag AS, 2017. 194pp. This is a beautiful pictorial history of the work of the Norwegian Seamen’s Service over the past 70 years.

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Events
January 19, 2018

Social Life on Board 2.0

by Stefan Francke

Social life on a ship is not what it used to be. A complaint that is often heard from crew: "Everyone disappears to his cabin after the watch." Does the Internet separate people from each other on a vessel? Has

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Events
January 14, 2018

Mariners’ House of Montreal Celebrates Grand Re-Opening

by Jason Zuidema

Representatives of the Port and supporting communities gathered on November 23 for a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially re-open Mariners’ House, the seafarers centre in the Port of Montreal. Robert Zeagman, President of Seagulf Marine Industries and the Mariners’ House board,

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Programs
January 13, 2018

NAMMA Intern Program Invests in the Future

by Michael Skaggs

By Michael Skaggs. With generous renewed funding from the ITF Seafarers’ Trust, the North American Maritime Ministry Association facilitated bursaries for ten of its port-based seafarers’ welfare center agency affiliates and its central office to employ seafarers’ welfare interns in the

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Chaplaincy
January 13, 2018

As you travel, pause and take a look at airport chapels

by Wendy Cadge

by Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University.  From The Conversation, January 3, 2018. Traveling in the new year? It is very likely there is a chapel or meditation room tucked away somewhere in one of the airports you’ll pass through. Sixteen of the country’s

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Literature
January 13, 2018

Book Review: Maritime Mission in Hong Kong

by Jason Zuidema

Stephen Davies. Strong to Save: Maritime Mission in Hong Kong, from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club. Hong Kong: CityU HK Press, 2017.  Xxxii + 605 pp. This new book by Stephen Davis, former director of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum

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Literature
January 12, 2018

Book Review – The Life and Times of Boston’s Father Taylor

by Jason Zuidema

Wendy Knickerbocker, Bard of Bethel: The Life and Times of Boston’s Father Taylor 1793-1871, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. The history of maritime ministry’s institutions and individuals illuminates its modern iterations around the world. Knickerbocker, who retired from the Maine Merchant

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The MARE Report is a magazine for seafarers’ welfare professionals published by the North American Maritime Ministry Association.

Publisher and Editor: Dr. Jason Zuidema

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