It's always interesting to see who turns up to cover an event like Re-Imagining, given the great uproar after the first Gathering in 1993. The Presbyterian Layman was conspicuously absent, unless they were represented by people attending as regular participants, so they could sit in on the small group discussions from which press people are asked to stay away. (That of course reflects an effort to protect the kinds of personal sharing that often goes on around those famous round tables.)

So who was there to observe and report? A young woman was reporting for the Institute for Religion and Democracy, and another one for the Good News right-wing group in the United Methodist Church. (She had also been asked to report for Voices of Orthodox Women, so there was one evangelical Presbyterian-related observer there, at least.) Another woman was reporting for the Lutheran right-wing press. But there were others, too: Church Women United had a journalist there, and another woman was hoping to write something -- on a free-lance basis -- for the ELCA. One other reporter, a United Methodist pastor from California, was planning to write for Sage, a journal of women's spirituality.

Noticeably absent were press people from the communication offices of the mainline denominations. Why?

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