At the corner of the country gravel road, we met several neighbors who were also waiting on a bus ride to the wedding in Kentucky, where Abby, one of our girls from church, would be married that day.

Processions — from marches to Palm Sunday — bring people together, turning shared movement into meaning, memory and collective purpose.

This question might sound a bit bizarre, some would even say it's disrespectful, but a surprisingly large number of believers ...