Meet the parent
I will soon pick up the discussion threads I left dangling here, not to mention finally blog the last chapter...

Identity and good works
So, about a week late, I'm finally getting around to blogging my first Beta class. Alpha, which I took a...

Deja vu all over again
This morning, after some dithering, I went through the same routine as I did last Sunday: up to All Saints...

More on All Saints 90210
Thanks to Lee for pointing out this post at Get Religion on the rector of All Saints Beverly Hills. The...

The Beta version
The weekend involved more than buying a book. I'd been thinking about taking up Joe's offer to introduce me to...

Silence
OK, I've vented my spleen about the Evangelical Quakers. So, Camassia, what was your good church experience this week? Well,...

The idiot box
I've had a bad church experience and a good church experience in the past week. First the bad one, since...

Cryin' at the doorstep of those armies of salvation
One of my complaints about churches has been that they don't seem to take the idea of Christian service seriously....

Perpetuum mobile
Today I followed up on the idea from this thread and visited the Orthodox mission near my apartment. (By the...

Magesterium
Judging by the comments to this post, I didn't make it clear enough what I meant by "teacher" and "student."...

My student days
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I've had a kind of stressful week, not least because I finally...

Among the Anabaptists
Yesterday, in a somewhat unplanned fashion, I wound up at Hugo's old haunt, the Pasadena Mennonite Church. I'd had a...

Speaking of church discipline...
Bwahahahaha! (Via The Gutless Pacifist.)...

My Sunday
So, this was yesterday: two very different church services, not enough sleep, and a lot of singing. I should explain...

Pentecost
When I went to church this morning I noticed a young man I hadn't seen before standing alone just outside...

By popular demand
I asked my pastor last night about what those interfaith meetings are about. It sounds like it mostly covers organizing...

Ascension Day
On Thursday evening my church had a joint Ascension service at the local Episcopal church. The Lutherans and the Episcopalians...

Correction
Turns out the "new" liturgy mentioned in the last post wasn't actually new, even for this church. Apparently I just...

Sign o' the times
What with everything going on I hadn't been to church, or anything related to it, since that caroling outing. It...

Here we go a-wassailing
This afternoon I joined up with six other people from church to go out caroling. We visited church members who...

Returning to the fold
Laura at Interesting Monstah has been doing a remarkable series of posts about returning to the African Methodist Episcopal Church...

This just keeps getting more interesting
The pastor wasn't there when I went to the midweek service last night -- he was off at some synodal...

Sundays with Uncle Marty
I'm going to say something that will probably please some of you and disappoint some of you, but them's the...

Binding the wounds
Dash has a lovely post about a new Lutheran healing service....

We all bow down
This week's church was the Culver-Palms Church of Christ. I went to this feeling blinder than usual -- I knew...

Churchgoing
I realized last night, after I'd gotten the computer pulled together again, that I never got around to blogging about...

Day of unrest
This is not a relaxing weekend for me. As I write this, I am putting off going back to the...

In the closet
Tomorrow I hope to file a report on the Church of St. Mark. It should be interesting to visit a...

My dumb church questions for this week
So I went to Mass Times to investigate the Catholic churches in my neighborhood, and two questions immediately came up:...

The joy we share as we tarry there
So as promised, here's my report on the Lutheran church I visited, which goes by the slightly kinky name of...

Move over, Consumer Reports
Peter Nixon found a site featuring entertaining reviews of church services from all over. One of Peter's commenters said this...

A question for my Lutheran readers
Or for anybody else who knows this ... I'm trying to figure out the differences between the Lutheran synods. I...

A big enough umbrella
On Sunday I started my tour of local churches to see what looks promising. In addition to looking at the...

Window shopping
Since one thing I feel I want in a church is that it be closer to me than my current...

Where do I go?
I got some interesting and helpful responses to my previous post (thanks, everyone). I was going to reply to them...

Wow, did I need that
I had a great vacation. I didn't quite realize, until I was already into it, how much I needed a...