by Dennis Knight | Apr 7, 2020 | In the Moment
Today is the first Sunday of the month as well as Palm Sunday. Not very long ago, we were planning on a fulsome service this April 5, which alas, is not so. I think of Palm Sunday as a day that belongs to the children, with its sense of festivity and pomp. It is a day...
by Dennis Knight | Apr 7, 2020 | In the Moment
The apartment my family lived in when I was a child was very small, and made the more so by the fact that three adults and four children lived within its limited few hundred square feet. We were perforce proximate to one another and very aware of each other’s...
by Dennis Knight | Mar 19, 2020 | In the Moment
As with schools, churches, and other organizations, activity at Pakachoag is on hold for the indefinite future. The Mighty Oaks Montessori School follows the calendar of Auburn Public Schools and like the school system, closed last week, again for an indefinite time....
by Dennis Knight | Mar 16, 2020 | In the Moment
The current situation with Covid-19 is one that few if any of us, and no one at this scale, have experienced in our lifetimes, and certainly presents challenges of many kinds with which we are not practiced. This crisis has erupted with what seems like close to no...
by Dennis Knight | Nov 14, 2019 | In the Moment
Some news overshadows all other events in the moment, and for those in the Worcester area that was the case today with the word of a fire and related death in the nearby Quinsigamond neighborhood, just over the hill from Pakachoag. The tale of brave fire...
by Dennis Knight | Apr 30, 2019 | In the Moment, Uncategorized
Easter establishes its own context as it represents the culmination of the Christian story, and in that regard presents a particular challenge to any preacher. It is the day that asks the most from any of us who would mount a pulpit. The notion of Jesus’ resurrection...
