The wisdom of the combat weary

The Rev. Dr. Paul Zahl, new rector of All Saints Church in Chevy Chase, Md., was once a partisan in the struggle for the control of the Episcopal Church. No more. In his installation sermon, “Love Among the Ruins: A Vision for Our Future,” he draws on the lyrics of Crosby, Stills and Nash and Brian Wilson (Midnight’s Another Day) before concluding that the only way forward lies in “walking away from anything else but the question: What is love?”