church hop Archive

  • Church Hop: Reform Judaism

    Posted on September 22, 2014 | 6 Comments
    Leaves 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.

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  • Church Hop: Quaker

    Posted on August 25, 2014 | 5 Comments
    35 minutes of complete silence, followed by 25 minutes of what we would call "testimony meeting," but without all the "I knows."

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  • Church Hop: Community of Christ

    Posted on August 18, 2014 | 4 Comments
    Even though the Community of Christ is something of a distant LDS cousin, the service felt nothing at all like an LDS service.

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  • 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."

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  • Church Hop: The Episcopal Church

    Posted on July 7, 2014 | 3 Comments
    When 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?"

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  • 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."

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