We asked these newly retired clergy, "What book is lying on your nightstand?"

William Boyd
Dayton, Tenn.
Microsoft Windows Vista

Darris Doyal
Sevierville, Tenn.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson

Mary Kathryn Crone
Sevierville, Tenn.
Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together, by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent

John Neese
Dayton, Tenn.
Jerusalem Countdown, by John Hagee