She currently serves as a priest at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco, simultaneously pursuing further theological education at nearby Graduate Theological Union. While Tribe stresses coming out as spiritually significant conversion, it also takes up the concern for community and communal memory, as the subtitle states. Ritley picks up on a theme promoted by Yale Professor John Boswell, who died of AIDS in late 1994. We must tell the stories, weave the legends, paint the icons of another family of saints whose lives will give us light . . . . This is the . . .
Tribe is also a book with tears.
Tears of anguish, tears of recognition, tears of relief, and tears of joy. Gay is a universal quality . But, Tribe ends with tears as well. The last section of the book harkens back to Ritley's days in Islam as she weaves in allegorical language the story of Hashad the Fool. Hashad joins a Caravan which is crossing the sands.