by Ken Sehested
Beloveds,
Fear not the times when your back is against the wall.
Read more ›Author: ppadmin
News, views, notes, and quotes
Signs of the Times • 30 May 2017 • No. 121
¶ Processional. “Ô Sang et eau” (“O blood and water”), Chant de la communauté de l' Emmanuel.
News, views, notes, and quotes
Signs of the Times • 23 May 2017 • No. 120
¶ Processional. “Cure Thy children’s warring madness, / Bend our pride to Thy control. / Shame our wanton selfish gladness, / Rich in things and poor in soul. / Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, / Lest we miss Thy kingdom’s goal.” —Furman Singers, "God of Grace and God of Glory," Paul T. Langston arrangement
Day of Pentecost choral reading
A script for nine voices, inspired by Acts 2:1-13
(Leader and reader instructions at bottom.)
When the day of Pentecost had come, [1]
they were all together in one place. [1, 2, 3]
Read more ›News, views, notes, and quotes
Signs of the Times • 17 May 2017 • No. 119
[Arkansas state judge and Baptist pastor Wendell Griffen, participates in an anti-death action in outside the Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson’ mansion in Little Rock on Good Friday.
¶ Processional. “Traditional Gospel Medley,” Stellenbosch University Choir.
Read more ›That big sound inside you
Prison life and the language of sighs
by Nancy Hastings Sehested
I was driving my three-year-old grandson from preschool when he asked me from the back seat,
“What that sound, Ja-Ja?”
Read more ›News, views, notes, and quotes
Signs of the Times • 3 May 2017 • No. 118
¶ Processional. “What Wondrous Love Is This,” Cantores Celestes Women’s Choir and The Trillum Brass Quintet.
Such is the journey
A call to Jesus' memorial table
by Ken Sehested
We are free to act boldly because we are safe.
We are safe because we are at rest.
Read more ›News, views, notes, and quotes
Signs of the Times • 25 April 2017 • No. 117
¶ Processional. “Testimony,” Voices of Hope, acclaimed women's choir made up of inmates at Lee Arrendale State Prison in Georgia.
When was the last time you heard a tourism expert talk about land redistribution and debt forgiveness?
TV travel program host Rick Steves donates $4 million apartment complex for homeless woman and children
by Ken Sehested
Years ago, when I first heard Rick Steves’ squeaky voice, channel flipping late on night, I thought it was satire. This being my last resort of delaying bedtime, I continued watching. And then later, in my night owl habit of TV diversion to put my brain in neutral to (hopefully) coast toward sleep, I would stumble across his show again. Over time, I actually began to look for the “Rick Steves’ Europe” program.
Why? I don’t remember exact details now, but interspersed with touristy stuff, he actually made a few honest comments about some of the history that had occurred in that place which the local chamber of commerce doesn't mention, the kinds of things travel brochures will never say.
Read more ›