St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church

Today I did a memorial service for the parents of two friends and parishioners at their summer house in Franklin, NY. They were atheists, fun-loving, British. And I have a lot of fun with the family.

As I was leaving, the brother of one of the deceased said, "I want you to know that I'm an atheist, but I appreciated what you said. I think he would have as well. But both of us, you know, we got the stick, and religion never held. We both got the stick. Perhaps if we hadn't gotten it... both of us got the stick a lot... but we both didn't find religion." He shook my hand.