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Thread: ken - R.I.P.
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Qoheleth.
Semi-Sagacious One
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Kyrie eleison ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Organ Builder
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It's hard to imagine what the Ship will be like without Ken. He could make me want to read a thread with a title like "Dullest Observations by the Dullest People on Earth". He was equally interesting on Facebook, though in a slightly different manner.
There was no one who could write up a Hell call like Ken at his best. "Myrhhmeneutics" will always bring a chuckle to anyone blessed to remember that thread.
He is someone I never met in real life, but was on the short list of Shipmates I wanted to meet. In spite of that, I feel a real loss that makes me realize just how much I considered him a friend.
May light perpetual shine upon him.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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Stejjie
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quote:
Originally posted by Angloid:
Percipient words from the man himself (his comments on his Easter sermon) quote:
People are always very nice so I can never be sure how a sermon goes down (perhaps that is a mercy) but some seemed very moved by it.
A few rather odd reactions that I did not expect. One person said I seemed to be "on fire" with what I was saying. I hardly know how to take that. I felt quite calm and very tired. The curate said that part of it reminded him of the Orthodox Kontakion for the Dead. Which was not in my mind at all.
He was in God's hands all along. Pray for us, Ken, as we will for you.
Seeing this news about ken reminded me of his Easter sermon as well. Praying that he is now knowing the fulfillment of the hope of which he spoke on Easter Sunday and that that hope will be comfort and peace to Persephone Hazard and all who are mourning him.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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We are all diminished by his death. May his glory illuminate us.
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Fr Weber
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Rest eternal grant him, O Lord, and may light perpetual shine upon him.
Farewell, Christian brother. You were a good guy.
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Barnabas62
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Rest in peace, unique and irreplaceable Shipmate. Condolences to Persephone Hazard, family and friends.
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Who is it that you seek? How then shall we live? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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My thoughts and prayers are with the departed and his family and loved ones.
May his memory be eternal.
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geroff
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Oh Ken so sad,
Rest In peace.
We will always remember a wonderful day with you at Kew, oh ages ago, and bumping into you around Greenbelt.
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"The first principle in science is to invent something nice to look at and then decide what it can do." Rowland Emett 1906-1990
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jackanapes
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My brother just told me the news. I am so sorry for Ken's family and friends, and that I never plucked up the courage to have a proper conversation when I bumped into him at GB. His faith and wisdom have had a big impact on me. Thanks Ken. RIP - RIG.
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lapsed heathen
Hurler on the ditch
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There was no subject he didn't know about, history, trains, comics. Missed hardly covers it.
Rest well ken.
[ 19. May 2014, 18:53: Message edited by: lapsed heathen ]
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"We are the Easter people and our song is Alleluia"
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Adding my condolences to all who loved our ken.
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http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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Chocoholic
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With prayers for Ken, Persephone Hazard, busyknitter and all his family.
Choccie x
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Sober Preacher's Kid
Presbymethegationalist
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[*Old Hundredth*]
Approach with joy his courts unto....
{/*Old Hundredth*}
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Landlubber
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Condolences to all Ken's family
From death to life eternal
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TonyK
Host Emeritus
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Persephone Hazard & busyknitter
So sorry to hear the news...
I hadn't been around the Ship much for the last few days and had no idea...
I remember meeting Ken (and you Persephone Hazard)
at some pub up in London (Fleet Street? The Strand?) many years ago.
His posts were always worth reading, and while I didn't always agree with him, I always read them...
Rest eternal grant unto him, O Lord; and may light perpetual shine upon him.
for Persephone Hazard, busyknitter, all his family and friends and the people at his church.
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Yours aye ... TonyK
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Trisagion
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May the angels lead him into paradise.
[ 19. May 2014, 20:02: Message edited by: Trisagion ]
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ceterum autem censeo tabula delenda esse
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Adeodatus
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Dammit, ken, you left us far too soon. Great Shipmate, and my favourite Evangelical! As many have said, the sight of your name would make me read the most unpromising thread. You were sound on Wagner and erudite on Dr Who, and that's beyond rare. Beyond rare you were yourself, and I'll bloody miss you. Rest eternal, dear brother.
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"What is broken, repair with gold."
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Rev per Minute
Shipmate
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Nothing more to say from me. Persephone, busyknitter, all who knew and loved ken, may God's peace be with you as you grieve.
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"Allons-y!" "Geronimo!" "Oh, for God's sake!" The Day of the Doctor
At the end of the day, we face our Maker alongside Jesus. RIP ken
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Cottontail
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Oh Ken. I loved his wit, his bullishness, his intelligence, his deep kindness, and his searing honesty. It is strange to say this about someone I only ever knew online, but I will miss him very badly. He was the best of us.
My prayers for Persephone Hazard and busyknitter, and all Ken's loved ones.
Rest eternal grant unto him, O Lord,
and light perpetual shine upon him.
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"I don't think you ought to read so much theology," said Lord Peter. "It has a brutalizing influence."
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Mrs Shrew
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So so sorry to hear this. I'm truly sorry for your loss, Persephone and busy knitter.
May he rest in peace and rise in glory, and may those who grieve his loss find comfort
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"The goal of life is not to make other people in your own image, it is to understand that they, too, are in God's image" (Orfeo)
Was "mummyfrances".
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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So sad. Rest comfortably in the True Light, ken.
And my prayers for strength and comfort to his family and all who loved him.
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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Ferijen
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Ken's intelligence, wit, humour, politics, and passion for people was so evident in his words on these boards. Didn't we all become Roundheads and cavaliers (or something?) at the point of his 10,000 post? Was his knowledge without end as he seemed to have intelligent comment on everything?
I am so sorry for the loss of him as father, brother, and especially as son, as no parent should see their child like this. But I am also selfishly sorry for our loss. The celestial ship sails with a greater crew tonight.
Ken's irregularly written, but always eloquent, blog is Here - the view from Nunhead station.
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deano
princess
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What awful, terribly sad news this is.
Ken and I were poles apart politically, but is like to think we shared a similar sort of faith. He was a good man who fought his corner fiercely, passionately and with unwavering determination.
He was an honest, principled worker and I can think of no higher honour to pay him.
I'll miss him.
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Louise
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So sad, so sorry. Such a terrible loss.
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Nenya
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I'm so sorry; love to you all. I'm grateful to those who have posted pictures of ken.
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Caty S.
I read, therefore I am.
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Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord
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St. Gwladys
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Shocked at the news, but glad that the journey was swift. May you rest in peace and rise in glory
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"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
\_(ツ)_/
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Beethoven
Ship's deaf genius
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Nononononono ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Prayers for Ken, and for Persephone Hazard, busy knitter and all who mourn him.
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toujours gai!
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anoesis
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quote:
Originally posted by Cottontail:
Oh Ken. I loved his wit, his bullishness, his intelligence, his deep kindness, and his searing honesty. It is strange to say this about someone I only ever knew online, but I will miss him very badly.
Read through this thread this morning, through a haze of tears, went to drop the kids off at school, and came back to post, only to find that Cottontail has pretty much said it for me. It's all true. If his loss is causing waves of grief on the other side of the planet, amongst people who only knew him online, the chasm left in the lives of his family must be all but incomprehensible...
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FCB
Hillbilly Thomist
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Prayers for Ken and my deepest sympathy for his family. As so many have said, he combined fierce intelligence with great wit and a big heart. I feel as if I learned a lot from him about how to be a Christian on the internet.
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Diomedes
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![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Eliab
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Terrible news. ken knew about loads of things, but more importantly, he cared about loads of things. We will miss him.
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Richard Dawkins
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Hooker's Trick
Admin Emeritus and Guardian of the Gin
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Joining other voices in my shock, dismay and sadness at this news.
I was fortunate enough to have met ken -- oh, years ago now -- at a London Shipmeet (a few others may have cause to remember). A rowdy contingent of shipmates closed the pub and found to their woe a complete lack of further booze (no one, myself included, having the forethought to get some in for after hours).
The rescue came in the form of some "vintage gin" provided by our own TonyK (thanks, Tony!) which ken, though not a renowned gin-drinker, was most insistent we should try. In the interests of science (what would forty-year old gin taste like?). The gin in question had turned a very pale straw colour, but proved most quaffable.
ken was much on fine form that evening and that meet, not least because of ken, remains one of my fondest London memories.
And ken was one of the few Honest To Goodness Evangelicals to seriously engage with the (sometimes eye-roll-worthy) content of Ecclesiantics, see through the tattery, and contribute constructively and substantially to the conversation.
He will be missed.
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Chesterbelloc
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May our Lord grant rest to His servant Ken and comfort to his family. A grievous loss to us all.
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Kyzyl
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So sad, so very sad.
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"It's been a long day without you, my friend
I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"
"'Oh sweet baby purple Jesus' - that's a direct quote from a 9 year old - shoutout to purple Jesus."
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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for ken, and all who mourn him
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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Oh no... I just discovered this thread. Ken was one of the shipmates whose posts I always read, and one of those I most hoped to meet someday face to face. His passing is a loss to us all.
Holding Ken and his family in the Light.
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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Olaf
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Prayers for the family and friends of ken. Persephone Hazard, thank you for keeping us informed. I never met ken off Ship, but the camaraderie here is much warmer and more respectful than many places online because of people like him, who could deftly navigate the line between serious and jocular.
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