See why it's never good to give my curiosity free rein? (g) It removes entirely the fetters of good taste and sensibility! (g)
Okay, let's hear a good story about when you were a snot, hmmmm, Dad? Please? Just one story, huh? (scoots chair closer)
Your religious pedigree sounds somewhat like mine, minus the Roman Arch. Baptized and raised Episcopalian until I was 10, then confirmed Methodist. Stayed Methodist until early 20s, except for the Fulbright year in Germany when I lived in a Catholic dorm and went to mass twice a week. Joined the UCC Congregational church and stayed for over 10 years, switching to the Lutheran church when our boys were in a Lutheran school.
Now, for the first time in my life, we haven't attended services for @ 2 years, partly because I am too chicken to tell our old church that they *are* now old. I just came to a point where the ultraconservative viewpoints held by our pastor became unacceptable to me and I got tired of having to explain to the youngest just which of the propounded views we didn't believe. When the health crises have finally passed, I'll probably go back to the UCC Congregational church, although frankly, all the denominations have so much in common, I'm comfortable in most. I just really love the minister in that church, and he is a friend of the family.
As for the last, entirely personal, nosy, and obnoxious question...oh, goody! I'll look forward to the email. In my own defense...it would have been a *reallly* awful question if we weren't already friends offlist! Okay. *More* awful. (g) I've always said my tombstone should read, "She was a 'curious' woman."
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Date: 2004-06-22 04:35 pm (UTC)Okay, let's hear a good story about when you were a snot, hmmmm, Dad? Please? Just one story, huh? (scoots chair closer)
Your religious pedigree sounds somewhat like mine, minus the Roman Arch. Baptized and raised Episcopalian until I was 10, then confirmed Methodist. Stayed Methodist until early 20s, except for the Fulbright year in Germany when I lived in a Catholic dorm and went to mass twice a week. Joined the UCC Congregational church and stayed for over 10 years, switching to the Lutheran church when our boys were in a Lutheran school.
Now, for the first time in my life, we haven't attended services for @ 2 years, partly because I am too chicken to tell our old church that they *are* now old. I just came to a point where the ultraconservative viewpoints held by our pastor became unacceptable to me and I got tired of having to explain to the youngest just which of the propounded views we didn't believe. When the health crises have finally passed, I'll probably go back to the UCC Congregational church, although frankly, all the denominations have so much in common, I'm comfortable in most. I just really love the minister in that church, and he is a friend of the family.
As for the last, entirely personal, nosy, and obnoxious question...oh, goody! I'll look forward to the email. In my own defense...it would have been a *reallly* awful question if we weren't already friends offlist! Okay. *More* awful. (g) I've always said my tombstone should read, "She was a 'curious' woman."