John Coakley

The Reformed Church (RCA) of Highland Park, New Jersey, stands on a side street just off the main thoroughfare of this residential town of about 14,000 people across the Raritan River from the old city of New Brunswick. A small century-old Gothic building houses the sanctuary. The educational building is only slightly more recent and blends in well enough, but attached to one end of it, in a rather different style, is the congregation's brand new clapboarded subsidized housing project…