MONDAY: Peter J. Gomes, pastor of Harvard’s Memorial Church, will be at Politics and Prose to read from his book The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus. Gomes believes Christians should be heeding the messages of Jesus, not objectifying the man. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Washington Post literary critic Michael Dirda wants you to know it’s OK to love Fowler’s Modern English Usage. How else would you learn that the “n” in damning, when it means “fatally conclusive,”…

> > If we know you, the DCist reader, you are no doubt feverishly caught up in DC’s celebration of the life and works of William Shakespeare. Feel like delving deeper? Get on board with Wordfest’s Shakespeare Reading Group at Chapters one week from today at 6pm, and get a guided tour of Richard III from University of Connecticut Professor Emeritus Arnold Orza. If you ask us, Richard got mad swift-boated by the Bard, but,…

Having had the opportunity to work with Wanda Alston several years ago, this DCist was among those who turned out for Saturday’s memorial at Luther Place Memorial Church, both to honor her life and mourn her violent and untimely death. Friends and members of the D.C.’s GLBT community were still entering the church when the service began with a drumming invocation, and eventually filled it so that only standing room was still available. It was…