Peter panagore bio and family

Peter Panagore: Everything changed.

There are approximately people in the U. Panagore is no stranger to those of us in the Boothbay region. He and his family, wife Michelle Miclette, and now grown children, Alexa and Andreas, have been part of our community since the mids. As 'The Rev' my name for him at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor, he continually stressed the importance of each and every one of us having a relationship with God, and of the importance of meditation, particularly the Centering Prayer meditation that he practiced, to foster that relationship.

Panagore was unconventional.

Living in Boothbay Harbor, I am a husband, father, grandfather, a two-time near-death experiencer, storyteller, ordained pastor, writer, best-selling book.

He delivered sermons behind the pulpit and among his congregation in the center aisle of the sanctuary. His sermons were never preachy, sometimes irreverent one favorite example happened early on after his arrival at the church, and during the first sermon I ever heard of his. There was always a contemplative quality, and always always, the sermons were written, and related, like a story.

Most Mainers know about his natural storytelling abilities; he's been the face of Daily Devotions, a program of the First Radio Parish Church of America on Channel 6 since I was there that day in when he bravely told the congregation about his near death experience NDE when he was What is Real is Real; it requires no belief and no faith.

Through vivid description and prose that is alternately detailed and straightforward, then lyrically reflective his poet's heart shining through , Panagore takes us along on his first ice climb on Lower Weeping Wall, with his experienced climbing partner, Tim. We become invisible witnesses to the life and death situation that unfolded there in Alberta, Canada, on the side of Cirrus Mountain.

The climb was 45 stories high and rated an ice grade of 4, meaning it would go vertical for 32 feet at a stretch. Panagore points out that the climb should have taken about seven hours to complete, but it took them closer to