by Ken Sehested | Nov 27, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Come ye fearful people come Cast your sighs to highest heav’n Yet—though terror’s harvest spread, Casting sorrow in its stead Still the Promise doth endure Life abounding to secure Come, ye thankful hearts, confess Mercy’s lien o’er earth’s distress. —Ken Sehested,...
by Ken Sehested | Aug 15, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Every August, I repost a piece of satire I wrote several years ago. I ask, “What if fortunes were reversed?” when funding public education and the military. Since it was first published, the current situation has become significantly worse. According to a recent study...
by Ken Sehested | May 24, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
The lectionary psalm (104:24-34, 35b) for Pentecost Sunday, which Christians around the world celebrated last week, omits the wrathful premise. Verse 35a reads: “Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more.” After these words, the last half...
by Ken Sehested | Mar 8, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
In the first year of my career as a stonemason, most of my work was grunt work. I hauled rock and sand, lugged 200 pounds of mixed mortar in a wheelbarrow from the mixer to the work site, and dug footers for stone walls of various functions. The latter included lots...
by Ken Sehested | Jan 15, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
I vividly remember the exact moment. I had fled my native South to New York City to finish college and seminary, embarrassed at being a Baptist, at being a white Southerner, and not entirely sure if I was a believer. But the “God question” wouldn’t go away. A mighty...
