Chaplain and Council

Chaplain

Circe Moss MacDonald

Eco-Chaplain Circe Moss MacDonald serves as the Spiritual Director and ceremonial guide at the Portland New Church Center for Sacred Arts.

Circe earned two ordinations: the first as a Transdenominational Minister at The StarHouse in Boulder, Colorado in 2003 and the second as an Interfaith Chaplain from The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine in 2019. Circe is also a puppeteer in the Mayo Street Arts community. Learn more about her work with Ritual Lab

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Council

Magnus de Rhuddlan, President

Magnus is grounded by his Nature-based ancestral Northern European animist practice, permaculture, and shamanism. Magnus is licensed clergy through the Maine Pagan Clergy Association. Learn more about his work

Rev. James Coomey, Treasurer

Nanci Adair, Secretary

Rev. Nanci Adair is a celebrated and gifted artist and healer. She recently had an exhibit at the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine of her ComfortHER Art Quilt Project. Nanci has called the Portland New Church her spiritual home for the past twenty-nine years and was ordained as an interfaith minister by ChIME in 2012.