I wrote a post on Sunday several hours after hearing of Bishop Kelsey’s death. In those hours, in our household of brothers, we were all in terrible shock and dealt privately with that feeling of loss. On Sunday night around 9, we had a service for Jim and on Monday morning we went [...]
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mourning in community
Posted in bishop kelsey, brother jacob, christian life, community, memorial, personal on June 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
bishop jim kelsey
Posted in bishop kelsey, memorial, personal on June 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Bishop Kelsey died today in a car accident.
I am in shock and grief.
The brothers and sisters were with him just over a week ago. He had come to California to be with us for a week for our joint meeting. Just a week before that me and three other brothers were with him [...]
A reader gets ready to move
Posted in books, brother jacob, personal on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in the middle of packing books, boxes and boxes of them. I’m moving from the friary in San Francisco to the one in New York next month. I don’t know what to do with all of these books – one must think of poverty and simplicity of course but reading is a [...]