I’ll have the minister’s Big Three this week — child dedication this morning, memorial service on Wednesday, and a wedding on Saturday. And I’m supposed to go up to the State House on Thursday to participate in a rally in support of equal marriage rights. And I leave for Portland, Oregon, a week from Wednesday to go to the annual denominational meeting. This is what can happen when you’re a minister — everything happens all at once, and you don’t have enough time. Crazy.

I don’t know how the ministers who have children manage. They must be superhuman.