by Dennis Knight | Aug 25, 2017 | In the Moment, Uncategorized
The recent clashes between two groups of marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, played out on a national stage, has yet again brought to the surface evidence of the profoundly unsettled and potentially explosive matter of race relations in the United States. The...
by Dennis Knight | Jun 26, 2017 | In the Moment, Uncategorized
The following is a slightly edited version of the text of a letter directed to the Rev. Mr. John C. Dorhauer, President of the United Church of Christ, in February 2017. As the content suggests, it was prompted by concerns about the direction and viability of the...
by Dennis Knight | May 18, 2017 | In the Moment, Uncategorized
Many years on into ministry, as I read and reread the Easter accountings – and they do vary from Gospel to Gospel – and mull on the details, I can only conclude that the evident miracle of Jesus’ rising from the dead is not the central point of these tales, as much as...
by Dennis Knight | Mar 21, 2017 | In the Moment, Uncategorized
There was a television series titled “The Naked City” that ran from the late 1950s to the early 1960s that was based on a 1940s movie of that name. It followed the same semi-documentary format as the movie, including the refrain spoken at the end of each episode,...
by Dennis Knight | Feb 14, 2017 | In the Moment
Introduced as a major proposal during the 2016 Presidential campaign, and now continuing into the actual administration of Donald Trump, the construction of a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico stands as an unsettled, and unsettling, issue. The...
