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 summer of 2017. Support included an amount for interns’ salaries over 3 months in […]
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 20 largest airports have chapels, as do many more around the world. I am a sociologist of […]
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 and honorary professor at The University of Hong Kong, traces the history of the […]
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 Academy library and studies American religious and cultural history in New England, offers a striking […]
by Wendy Cadge This article first appeared in The Conversation, July 11, 2017. Boston celebrated its maritime heritage in June by welcoming tall ships from around the world into Boston Harbor for the celebratory event, Sail Boston. Thousands of people visited the magnificent vessels at anchor to learn about Boston’s rich maritime history. I saw the […]
This is the 2017 issue of the MARE Report Magazine. The MARE Report (MARE is the ‘sea’ in Latin) is a new magazine published by the North American Maritime Ministry Association to discuss issues affecting seafarers’ welfare providers and their supporters.
This is the 2016 issue of the MARE Report Magazine. The MARE Report (MARE is the ‘sea’ in Latin) is a new magazine published by the North American Maritime Ministry Association to discuss issues affecting seafarers’ welfare providers and their supporters.
This is the 2015 issue of the MARE Report Magazine. The MARE Report (MARE is the ‘sea’ in Latin) is a new magazine published by the North American Maritime Ministry Association to discuss issues affecting seafarers’ welfare providers and their supporters.
