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The New Year Challenge

Jan 22, 2025 | hampshirereview.com | Roy Knight

We are celebrating the new year, 2025. Sounds ominous, especially to those of us who see each advancing year as one less year we have left!I have noticed more general anxiety amongst my friends and family members when it comes to the new year. No doubt, some of it is based on the incoming administration in Washington, D.C., and the changes that are ahead for the country. I too believe that we have plenty of reasons to be concerned.
The power of song

Jan 15, 2025 | hampshirereview.com | Roy Knight

“After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the Lord and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: ‘Give thanks to the Lord, for his love endures forever.’ As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.” (2 Chronicles 20:21-22) The overflow of singing praises amid great difficulties has tremendous spiritual...
Love came down at Christmas

Dec 25, 2024 | hampshirereview.com | Roy Knight

At the beginning of Advent, I put out on social media an opinion poll asking what is your favorite Christmas carol/hymn. It was a fun post with a variety of responses. One carol was mentioned that I had almost forgotten. The Christmas carol “Love Came Down at Christmas” (Christina Rossetti, 1885) says that Love came down at Christmas,Love all lovely, Love Divine. Love was born at Christmas,Star and Angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead,Love Incarnate, Love Divine.
We’ll have to wait and see

Dec 11, 2024 | hampshirereview.com | Roy Knight

Every day we are gradually altered by the world; by what we see or experience, by the people we cross paths with, by the pain and goodness we bear witness to. We are the ever-changing sum total of the moments we log here on the planet, always slightly shifting, forever in transition, never quite finished. And because of this, invariably we are going to find ourselves at times disagreeing with our former selves, no longer certain of things we believed in our core to be unquestionably true.
Christ the King Sunday

Nov 27, 2024 | hampshirereview.com | Roy Knight

One of my favorite days in the Christian liturgical year happened this past Sunday: Christ the King Sunday. It reminds us that God and the state are not the same thing; the state does not have ultimate power; and we Christians must resist falling in love with the state or its power. Christ the King Sunday? Yes, it’s grossly archaic, sexist, patriarchal, and repressive. It’s hardly improved by calling it The Reign of Christ Sunday as many do. God’s commonwealth brooks no hierarchy of status.
For such a time as this

Nov 13, 2024 | hampshirereview.com | Roy Knight

With the election having been a week ago, I feel a mixture of sorrow and joy as I write this column today. Though I am sickened by the language and narcissism of President-elect Trump, I am more disheartened by the majority of us who voted for him. Is this really who we want to be as a country?
Happy All Saints and Halloween

Oct 30, 2024 | hampshirereview.com | Roy Knight

Here we go again. The Jack o’ lanterns, spooks, giant skeletons, and other holiday decorations in lawns and department store windows, the heaps of candy in grocery stores, the perennial return of pumpkin-spice-EVERYTHING–all presage the approach of Halloween: after Christmas, the biggest commercial holiday of the year. But what many will not realize is that, like Christmas, Halloween is a Christian celebration. Oct.
My servant job

Oct 15, 2024 | hampshirereview.com | Roy Knight

Autumn has arrived, and as I pen this, today is the first time we have seen the sun in some 10 days. It has rained, sometimes gently and sometimes quite hard, for the past week-and-a-half. The extended forecast shows that we shall see no rain for the coming week to ten days. So, just as we lamented the lack of sunshine for the past week, we shall lament the lack of rain after the coming week. We are an odd bunch, we humans. We are seldom happy with our current circumstance, whatever it may be.
Life is exhausting

Oct 2, 2024 | hampshirereview.com | Roy Knight

Life is exhausting these days for many of us, and I think I’ve figured out why. I think it’s the pretending we’re witnessing.
Unkind behavior

Sep 11, 2024 | hampshirereview.com | Roy Knight

I have been seeing a lot of memes and articles shared about how Jesus ate with sinners and did not leave them in their sin. Too many people use this mindset to justify judgmental and pushy behavior. But here’s the thing. We must go a step further. Jesus loved so deeply he was willing to die for all those people—good/bad, broken/whole, sick, sad, mean, unloving, loving, cynical, compassionate. Everyone — regardless of what the sin was or is in their lives and regardless of how good or bad they are.