Saving Grace
WHEELING — A nail that could easily take out a tire is on the pavement just outside St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church. Father Josh Saxe pounces to retrieve it before peering up toward the mammoth, slate-covered roof from whence he knows it came. The 1866 building took a hit during a double derecho earlier in the month and roofers are literally on site to assess the damage. Saxe is the newly minted rector of a church whose pastoral line stretches back to the time of fluffy white mutton chops, as evidenced by a long wall of portraits in a stairway. He has spent the last hour or so ...
