Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, has condemned this website as likely to contain materials contrary to faith and doctrine--and indeed has expressed doubts about Deacon Ken, the author and subject of it.  The bishop's previously published approval has been withdrawn on advice of the Archbishop of Canterbury and other unnamed bishops of The Church.  


NEWS

Circle of the Way, my latest book, is a Finalist in the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Order it directly from Amazon.com.

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BIOGRAPHY

Ken Arnold is the founder and publisher of KenArnoldBooks, LLC. A deacon in the Episcopal Church (retired), playwright, poet, and author of books in religion who has worked as a publisher for the past forty years, he lives and works in Portland, Oregon. 

Most recently, Ken was publisher for the Episcopal Church publishing organization, Church Publishing Incorporated, including the Seabury, Morehouse, Living the Good News, and Church Publishing imprints. He has also worked as an editor and publisher in the university press world and was a partner in a web-publishing firm, Pubcomm, in the late 1990s.

He is also a member of the board of Friends of Ooligan Press at Portland State University.

In 1979 Ken was a fellow at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Confernce, where he developed She Also Dances, a play that premiered at South Coast Repertory Theatre, in Costa Mesa, California, in 1983. It was cited in Best Plays of 1983. Other plays include: The House of Bedlam, Wanting Marie, Rapture, and Enlightenment (a play about the priest and monk Thomas Merton). He has published poems in numerous national magazines.

His two previous books are On the Way: Vocation, Awareness, and Fly Fishing, and Night Fishing in Galilee: The Journey Toward Spiritual Wisdom. These books are not about fishing or how to fish, although Ken is a fly fisher when he can get away to a stream. He studies the Japanese traditional bamboo flute, the Shakuhachi, which he plays as part of a Zen meditation practice. Married to Connie Kirk, he lives in Portland, Oregon. He has two adult children, Nicholas and Ruth.

Contact Ken Arnold at ken@ken-arnold.com