by Dennis Knight | Feb 15, 2018 | In the Moment, Uncategorized
The following prayer is adapted from one written a year ago on the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT. Wednesday’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL was a similarly horrific event —...
by Dennis Knight | Dec 5, 2017 | In the Moment
Beneficent House 50th Anniversary, September 17, 2017 Psalm 127:1-2 Rev. Dennis R. Knight History as a Helix I recently offered an informal tour to a woman unfamiliar with the church building where I serve as minister. Along the way, she asked me how long I...
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,...