The Minister and the Justice

Published February 28, 2016 5:00pm ET



In 1998, Justice Antonin Scalia attended the funeral service for Justice Lewis Powell at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia. At the luncheon afterwards Scalia looked for the church’s pastor, the Rev. James Goodloe. Unable to find him, Scalia wrote Goodloe a letter telling him “how reverent and inspiring I found the service.”

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