by Ken Sehested
10 October 2019
“The Amazon is not burning—it is being burned.”
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Articles, Essays & Sermons
Storm coming
How to tell the truth about climate collapse without counseling despair
by Ken Sehested
23 September 2019
Stirred by correspondence with three friends, and punctuated by two historic events, the past week has been a whirlwind of emotions.
My good friend Greg is the smartest person I personally know when it comes to understanding the complex web of factors 
behind impending environmental collapse. He also has a keen moral vision. A high school math teacher, his convictions are rooted in personal integrity. He’s taken part in dozens of environmental direct actions, including several stays in jail, for acts of civil disobedience. Read more ›
In praise of Ordinary Days
A meditation on Ordinary Time on the church's liturgical calendar
by Ken Sehested
“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars.”
—William Blake
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We don’t have anything if we don’t have stories
Preface to 11 July 2019 special edition of Signs of the Times devoted to brief stories
by Ken Sehested
"If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination."
—philosopher Paul Ricoeur
By the time I finished my cum laude undergraduate work and with distinction seminary degree, my analytical powers were sharply honed. I was capable of researching, selecting, and presenting large troves of factual material; which I immediately put to work as an advocate for justice, peace, and human rights shaped by a passionate theological ethos. Read more ›
Eastertide
The outing of the church
by Ken Sehested
Some years ago, writing in the days leading up to Easter, I realized important though tragic anniversaries arrived in the days immediately following that Sunday.
“Even before our resurrection flowers have wilted, we will be confronted again with the presence of evil. Since Easter falls early in the calendar this year, in the coming resurrection week we will be forced to remember the 
enduring power of death. In 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian, was executed by the Nazis two days after Easter Sunday. This next Thursday, April 4, we will remember the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. right here in Memphis.” —continue reading “Open Letter to My Daughter: Easter morning, with the stench of death still in the air”
