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Bishop Gulick: What
books have been on
your mind that you’d
recommend to our
diocesan audience?
Dan Silva’s Spy Novels
If you want a great trip away
from reality and read a good,
good spy novel, I don’t think
you can beat him. I think I’ve
read everything he’s written.
Free of Charge: Giving and
Forgiving in a Culture Stripped
of Grace, Miroslav Volf
A great theological read. I
love what he writes about
reconciliation.

Bishop Goff’s children’s homilies often feature a guest appearance from Granny MacEwe, as
seen here at St. Andrew’s, Arlington.

Anything Rowan Williams
writes is worth reading.

Bishop Goff: If you could choose from any
living people, which three would you invite
to dinner?
Could you imagine the deep conversation and hearty
laughter at a dinner party with Malala Yousafzai, Emma
Watson and (taking a great liberty here) our diocesan
Parish Youth Ministry team?

Bishop Gulick: What’s
your favorite day of
the week?
I’m really enjoying Thursdays.
I celebrate the Eucharist at
7:15 at St. James’, Warrenton,
and then I do a Bible study
with about 20 Episcopalians
who have really gotten to
know each other well and
love being together, and I
think they enjoy helping me
get ready to preach. I feel like
that grounds my preaching in
a kind of lived experience that
has helped focus the work I
do in the Diocese. And when I
finish that Bible study, I come
home and my wife and I look
at each other and say, “Let’s
be retired today.” So we have
a day of retirement.

(Above) Bishop Goff joins the Rev.
Ann Willms following worship at
St. Luke’s, Simeon.
(Left) A baptism is a source of
celebration at Christ Church,
Winchester, with Bishop Gulick.

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