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Church Hop Archive
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Church Hop: Reform Judaism
Posted on September 22, 2014 | 6 CommentsLeaves are changing color. Summer is ending. What started as a short season of church hopping will almost certainly continue, although this will be our last post. -
Church Hop: Quaker
Posted on August 25, 2014 | 5 Comments35 minutes of complete silence, followed by 25 minutes of what we would call "testimony meeting," but without all the "I knows." -
Church Hop: Community of Christ
Posted on August 18, 2014 | 4 CommentsEven though the Community of Christ is something of a distant LDS cousin, the service felt nothing at all like an LDS service. -
Church Hop: Unitarian Universalism
Posted on August 11, 2014 | 6 Comments"Most conversion stories begin with the person having questions for which the Church is able to provide answers. His began with questions for which the Church does not provide satisfactory answers. Most end with a whole-hearted embrace of the Church's moral prescriptions; his ended with a whole-hearted embrace of compassion as the only legitimate moral compass." -
Church Hop: First Congregational Church, UCC
Posted on July 14, 2014 | 10 Comments"[T]his church's main emphasis seems to be community and fellowship." -
Church Hop: The Episcopal Church
Posted on July 7, 2014 | 3 CommentsWhen my wife suggested that we try the Episcopal Church, I immediately started singing "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am." . . . [A]ll I could think was, "Isn't that the church that Henry VIII started so that he could get a divorce?" -
Church Hop: Introduction
Posted on June 30, 2014 | 10 Comments"My husband and I have landed on the idea that we will try out different churches for the summer and see what happens. We're not saying we're leaving Mormonism; we're not saying we're joining another church; we're simply experimenting with no commitments either way."