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Carmen Hinkey

Carmen Hinkey

After two years at the Villa Primavera Community in Paraguay, my husband and I have returned to New York and live at the Mount Community. Our children (who are grown) live nearby, and we are happier than we can say to live on the shores of our favorite river, the mighty Hudson.

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December 20, 2018

The Universe Sings: A Christmas Cantata

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I’m not sure it’s traditional to read Genesis as Christmas preparation, but this evening I paged to the front of my Bible and found what I was looking for in the first chapter of Genesis. It sounds so simple. For God, a mere commandment brought...

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November 21, 2018

Write Me As One That Loves His Fellow Men

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Recently it has been kind of dense in my head, trying to make sense – has anyone? – of the spate of violence that has beset our country. My parents were immigrant Jews, dead now for fourteen years, and I can’t begin to sort through the emotions of...

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October 17, 2018

San Óscar Romero, Saint of the People

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A native Salvadoran, Monseñor Romero lived in service to his people during the blood-soaked civil war, and he died serving Christ Jesus, literally. He was celebrating Mass, hands open in supplication at the altar, when a sharpshooter’s bullet felled...

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August 10, 2018

Hand-built Lean-tos and the Value of Volunteer Work

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The Catskill Park is woven with well-maintained hiking trails, including the Long Path and the Devil’s Path. Familiar to any veteran hiker is the lean-to, a rustic log structure at intervals along the trails. My family frequented those trails, we...

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