Author Archives: Philip E Jenks

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About Philip E Jenks

Philip, a synodical deacon in the ELCA Metropolitan New York synod, is a retired communicator for American Baptist Churches USA, the U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches, the U.S. National Council of Churches, and two Philadelphia area daily newspapers. He and his spouse, the Rev. Dr. Martha M. Cruz, are the parents of six adults and are members of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rye Brook, N.Y. They live in Port Chester, N.Y.

Boomers Remember Bobby

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Unfake News

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Thinking Despots

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Second Amendment

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Eat Cake

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A Dark Night in Buna, December 1943

My Dad is on jungle patrol near Buna late at night.  He hears the anxious farting of a Japanese patrol  And a silhouetted figure looms with menace in his sight.  “I.D. yourself, goddammit,” thinks my father, sick in soul,  The … Continue reading

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Jesus Come Near

NOTE: Prepared for delivery at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Rye Brook, N.Y., on May 29, 2022. Our scriptures this morning are full of Jesus. We so need that. After last week’s terrible news – the massacre by firearm of 19 … Continue reading

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We REALLY hardly knew ye

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Good Guys

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We All Weep

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