I Am Episcopalian

i was not raised in the episcopal church, but i was confirmed into the episcopal church as an adult, because i wanted to be. i actually was employed by the episcopal church first, and then decided that i wanted to join.
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I'm not. But my adoptive mother is. I remember passing a cool looking church as a child and asking her what religion's church it was. She said Episcopalian and told me that that was how she was raised.

I thought it was the absolute...

My family and our Anglicanism goes back over 500 years. My people were on the first English ships to bump into North America.
I grew up in a devout Rite I household in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the 1960s' 1970s' and early 1980s. Those...

After growing up in a nightmarish church, I pretty much avoided all denominations and congregations. Although I am Christian, I am very often ashamed of my fellow believers' approach to the Christian life and their view of the "...

For me, coming from a fairly conservative religious background and being "evangelical" the transition has not always been an easy one.  Moving from a world that was easily defined as "black and white" and if the...

Being Black is hard enough, as the people in the world see me for my color first, but it is even hard in the church. I was on a commission in the Diocese where an event was being planned. One thing that was wanted for this event...

Sometimes, I feel like the prodigal son, except that, as the story goes, I didn't live it up as much he did, nor was I quite as rebellious.  Not too long after my confirmation in the Episcopal church at thirteen, I discovered the...

Episcopalian to me isn't a very exciting religion. I was raised in a church I spent only 8 years at. I barely go to church now . . . My best friend still goes to the same church. I met my best friend at the church when I was only 1 or 2...