Congregation

"In an age of exotic spiritual quests, Gary Dorsey set out in search of an American tradition. He settled in the least exotic of places - a 360-year-old Congregational church whose white clapboards and steeple looked like a picture postcard of New England." "In an astonishing year of reporting, Dorsey takes us on his initiation into the trials and pleasures of mainline congregational life: taking flight through the cemetery of First Church in Windsor, Connecticut, with an irrepressible minister and his rambunctious dog; praying at the New Age shrine of a middle-aged nursery school teacher;…