In a week full of words - analyzing tragedy and trying already to wring meaning from it, or seemingly as likely to assign blame - what we will most likely remember are not words at all, but images.

Images of perpetrator and victims - guns and scowls, fear and fleeing, teachers and the students they could not protect. Images of families and friends - thrust before television cameras and microphones so that we could look on at their shock and loss and deep suffering.

Less than twenty-four hours ago, ten of us from this parish gathered with several hundred other people at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, to witness and celebrate the ordination of John Dwyer and five more from the Diocese of New York as deacons in Christ's church.

Alabama native Dr. Louie Crew, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, shares his experiences of growing up in a devout Baptist household, his reactions to the worldwide Anglican struggles and the challenges that exist even today with racism.

My name is Dustin Cole and I am the coordinator of Sacred Grounds. For the past year Sacred Grounds has created a space for people in their 20's and 30's to come together in worship and to socialize with people from around the diocese. It has helped to build-up relationships among young adults from different parishes which have given us a greater sense of community in the Episcopal Church.