Ken's e-Pistle March 27, 2024 It is hard to believe that Easter is here! It seems to be few weeks earlier this year than in years past, but that may be just my perception. I used to know the formula for figuring when Easter would fall but, like many things, I have cleaned it [...]
Ken's e-Pistle March 20, 2024 This Sunday is Palm Sunday, the exciting end of the Lenten season and the beginning of Holy Week. Few times in the liturgical year reflect our humanity as much as these few days. Here, we will give voice to our hopes and dreams as Messiah makes the triumphant entry [...]
Ken's e-Pistle March 13, 2024 In this month’s issue of The Atlantic we find a thoughtful and sensitive article by Judith Shulevitz entitled, “How Marilynne Robinson Reads Scripture.” For those of us unfamiliar with her work, Gilead is a good example. Her prose is at once picturesque and prophetic, finding God’s elusive yet imminent [...]
Ken's e-Pistle March 6, 2024 It has been a little warmer than usual on our side of the mountain. Just enough to encourage the Redbuds and Bradford Pears to join the daffodils in a tentative rehearsal of the spring symphony of colors and smells which is my favorite music. Then, as I was walking [...]
Ken's e-Pistle February 28, 2024 Growing up, I had some neighbors whom I dearly loved. Mr. and Mrs. Lee lived next door to us and thoroughly enjoyed our coming over to visit and do forbidden things like drinking hot tea and eating peanut brittle, of which my parents knew little. Their daughter had grown [...]
