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There was a lot to celebrate at the recent Pride parades. But while I support gay rights, I'm oddly unenthusiastic about the prospect of my own denomination considering a resolution to become open and affirming.

Before attending seminary, I worked for several summers as a truck driver. Later it dawned on me that truckers and clergy travel a similar metaphoric highway.

At this year's great Vigil of Easter, our congregation welcomed four new adult members: three women and one of their husbands.

According to Sister Mary Luke Jones, Protestant clergywomen come to Our Lady of Grace Mon­astery's retreats "with a deep thirst for community."

Woody Guthrie: American Radical, by Will Kaufman. I love musician biographies; Humphrey Carpenter’s of Benjamin Britten is the most fascinating book I’ve read in years. I also love Guthrie’s music--he’s so much funnier and sharper-edged than the earnest troubadours who mimicked him in the 60s--and I’ll read anything about politics.

For some reason, going to a funeral and gathering in a cemetery doesn't serve us as it once did. People find satisfaction in erecting crosses along the public way.