Two Other Quick Notes

Dear Readers:

Two other messages for this first week of November:

First, I hope that you will take time to listen to the Speaking of Faith radio program on your local national public radio station. In the Lexington area, it airs at 6:00 p.m., on WEKU (88.9 FM) on Sundays. Krista Tippett, the show's host, is a terrific journalist, and thoughtful commentator on religious issues in America today. She has a degree from Yale Divinity School.

The guests on the Speaking of Faith program this Sunday will be the friends of the Kentucky Council of Churches, the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, former general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, and the Rev. Dr. Thomas Hoyt, Jr., bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Louisiana and Mississippi, and currently the president of the National Council of Churches.

Both have been speakers at the Annual Assemblies of the Kentucky Council of Churches, and Bishop Hoyt was here on September 12, for the Compassion Sunday Interfaith event that we held in response to the hurricane disasters.

They are worth the effort to mark your calendar so that you will remember to turn on your radio at 6:00 Sunday.

Secondly, now that I have returned from a wonderful vacation with one of my daughters (we traveled throughout Austria in mid-September), and now that the annual meeting of the Council of Churches is behind us, I wanted to let you know that I am going to try to publish a "blog" at least once every two weeks. These Intercom blogs will address some of the current political and legislative issues of our state and nation. The next blog will focus on the big push in the coming legislative session to put casinos in our cities and towns.

So, keep tuned. Your responses, by the way, to these blogs, are welcome. I look forward to hearing from you...either electronically or otherwise. You can respond here to the blogs, or you can write me directly at: njk@kycouncilofchurches.org.

Thanks for reading. In hope always for unity, justice, and peace, Nancy Jo