Mrs. Matthew M. Finch

All Saints' greatest asset was its young priest, Matthew Finch, who bore a striking resemblance to the actor Peter Gallagher.
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Like Zeus and Ares, Hera and Athena, Matthew Finch got jealous.He envied his neighbours and coveted their possessions.He got angry, he told us, and overreacted.Then he regretted it and got depressed.The more he talked about his flaws, the more self-deprecating his jokes, the more people liked him.He was worldly, modern, ambivalent: he was one of us.

I preferred church to Sunday School.
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To my great surprise, we learned one day that her intended was our handsome, blue-eyed pastor, Matthew Finch.

I went away to Harvard and studied literature, as my father had.My parents remained connected to our school, if not to our church: my father served on the board, and my mother volunteered.That was how I heard, only a few years later, that Mrs Finch had become Ms Keppler again.
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I remember the power of Matthew Finch's sermons: how he was able to make the case for a contemporary kind of faith in a way that was inspiring to the congregation of a Beverly Hills church, at the end of the twentieth century, just a few blocks from the consumer paradise of Rodeo Drive.

Rev. Matthew M. Finch, our next pastor, came from Camden, New Jersey on December 15, 1897.