by Ken Sehested | Aug 31, 2026 | News
In his August 2026 column, Sojourners’ José Humphreys III introduced readers to Barbara Holmes’s notion of “crisis contemplation.” He wrote, “When the ordinary isn’t ordinary anymore and the crisis is upon us, the self can center in…refuge.” Crisis contemplation is...
by Ken Sehested | Jul 8, 2026 | Opinion
I remember the day Nancy came home, late one afternoon, walked straight to the kitchen where I was cooking dinner and said, “Well, I thought I’d heard it all. But I got a new one today!” “What’s that?” I said in a solicitous voice—as solicitous as one can be when...
by Ken Sehested | May 21, 2026 | Opinion
Malcolm X’s Autobiography was the first book that scared me. Here I was, in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood, secretly abandoning my pietist-revivalist rearing in favor of the more verdant fields of liberalism, which helped for a time. Then came this...
by Ken Sehested | May 6, 2026 | Opinion
The photo you see is of me, a good while back, holding my newborn nephew, Nate, in his parents’ apartment in New York City. I was there to lead a vigil at the Isaiah Wall, across from the United Nations, in support of nuclear disarmament debates happening across the...
by Ken Sehested | Mar 24, 2026 | Opinion
Lent’s labor is a season of special time and attention given to our own hearts and minds. It invites us to examine the work of our hands and the paths of our feet. It calls us to inquire into the ways and the wherefores to which we give the attention of our eyes and...
