Over the weekend, I drove out to Otis, MA, for the Harvest Nights Gathering, the inaugural festival for Charter Oak Grove, ADF. They'd requested some ADF Priests via our Traveling Clergy Program (ADF Member's only link), and I was one of the lucky ones able to make it out. I have a couple of things to say about the drive:

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Seminary is the last occasion most students will have to fret about the perils of excessive clergy power.

-"Relocating The Clergy Ego" by Dan Hotchkiss

Why is it that each Thanksgiving recently, the first person to say "Happy Thanksgiving" to me is not an American ( Read more... )