– (Editor’s note: Clair E. Carpenter, pastor of the Adirondack Community Church in Lake Placid, wrote a guest column titled “Thinking together.” Below is the text of that column.) Recently I received three letters: the first criticized something I had said in the pulpit. (Anyone has a right to do this.) The second letter was sarcastic in tone because the writer had found the front door of our church locked at 9:15 in the evening. (The door is open from 7 in the morning to 9 in the evening.) The third letter criticized the actions of another person and would I please go set that person straight and tell him “what trees made shingles.”