Article April 21, 1997 Issue

Spring weddings: clergyman finds new commitment among young people

by Kim Shippey

Through the centuries and throughout the world, people have delighted in the tradition of spring weddings—whether spring falls in April or October. No one knows this better than the Reverend William Barnwell, Associate Rector for Outreach and Community Building at Trinity Church in Boston, who has a busy wedding calendar for April, May, and June and looks forward to the new season with special anticipation.

He shared his enthusiasm with us during a conversation in his office overlooking the Romanesque nineteenth-century Episcopal church in Copley Square in which he serves.

"I'm seeing a different generation coming into the church," he told us. "Unlike those of the 1970s and '80s, these are young people with strong ethical and moral standards. They want to be married, and I have a sense that they really do want a lifelong commitment to each other.

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