Rev. Peter Baldwin Panagore

In 2003, Reverend Panagore was recruited to apply for the position of Pastor of First Radio Parish Church of America, and host of the TV program, Daily Devotions, that broadcasts daily from two NBC Stations in Maine. Daily Devotions may also be found on the app Call on Faith by Odyssey Networks, on FM, AM, email, Face Book, Twitter, YouTube, in book, in magazine, and at DailyDevotions.org. Given his theological, literary and theatrical training Daily Devotions is a perfect fit. So far, he has written and produced more than a 1000 short form videos, which have been viewed by millions of TV viewers in Maine, New Hampshire, and Canada. He serves as the fifth minister of First Radio Parish Church of America, founded in 1926, in Portland, Maine. First Radio is the oldest continuous religious broadcast in the USA.

Reverend Panagore, storyteller, is a native New Englander, born and raised in Massachusetts, and a graduate of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut with a Masters of Divinity. Rev Panagore earned his B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he also studied the art of mime. He attended Montana State University for one year as an exchange student, from where he toured and performed nationally in the Theater of Silence, and graduated from the Catholic prep school -- Saint John’s High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts where he rowed bow on a crew of eight.

Raised both Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic, and ordained in the United Church of Christ Congregational, New Haven Association in 1987, he served 18 years in pulpits in Connecticut and Maine, ending that portion of his career as minister of the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor, United Church of Christ.

From 1999-2006 Reverend Panagore was a staff writer at Homiletics, the leading nationwide worship preparation journal for mainline clergy. Homiletics published more than a hundred of his sermons. He has also published short stories in anthologies, most notably, Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul, by New York Times Best Selling editor Jack Canfield. He is author of Two Minutes for God, a Maine best seller. He is at work on his next book with the working title, Your Soul Is Real.

Reverend Panagore has practiced The Jesus Prayer and yoga for more than 30 years, writes poetry, skis wicked fast but always in control, and once died in an ice climbing accident in Canada, but obviously came back.

He is married with two adult children and lives on the remote coast of Maine within earshot of the sea.

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