As a Christian who is committed to a stance of nonviolence, I recognize the oddity of doing what may seem like an attempt to normalize bloodshed. This is anything but.

Following the Supreme Courts ruling today in Fulton v. Philadelphia (see coverage from NPR here, and from the Washington Post here), both the Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Michael Curry, and the President of the House of Deputies, the Rev.

Peace, be still. It is the time of year that darkness descends like a curtain on the ground only reluctantly, when the long days stretch indolently like a satisfied cat. This is the time of year when the lure of the outdoors exercises a mesmerizing hold on those of us who love summer.