Peter Bailey is the new pastor of the Coila Church in Coila, N.Y., just outside my town of Cambridge. When he can, he comes to the Round House Cafe to meet with people, do his work, check is e-mail. The cafe is invaluable to him, he says, it connects him to his parishioners and to the community. Pastor Bailey is also a musician, he plays at the cafe on weeks and in special performances there.

I don’t know why, but I love to see a pastor hanging out in the cafe, working there. If the cafe had a chaplain, it would almost surely be Peter. He is part of the rich mix of community, and without the cafe,  I would never see him or get to know him. His last sermon, he said, was about fear and what it does to people.