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I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.
In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.
I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
I am a Catholic.
My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.
England's Protestant," they declared. "Why else did we throw out the Stuarts? The government and their placemen are selling us down the river. If they'll give way over Catholics, what will they give way over next?
Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.
So upright Quakers please both man and God.
Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the bible that they love you when really they no different from your rivals.
The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason
Heaven, for the Presbyterians, must resemble a banking establishment, with each soul tagged and docketed, and placed in the appropriate pigeonhole.
In the fourteenth century eighty thousand of these Covenanting Presbyterians were found in Austria and maintained their principles to the death.
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
Mistress Agatha Brown, she was Church of England, but she just done gone to the Catholics. And it seems they don't hold with places like 3½, not even when they're decently run.
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.
My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.
An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hell's laughter, heaven's abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.
Am equally at home in an Anglican or Baptist church
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.
I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.
That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice
I'm a Jehovah's Witness.
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
I was a careless Protestant, my wife was a good Catholic, and we had six kids in seven years and I'd endorse that to everyone.
Hey, I was raised in the church.
I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
For me, the Church is the enemy.
I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.
When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.
My parents were Christian.
Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these.
Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
TV evangelists say they don't favor any particular
denomination, but I think we've all seen their eyes
light up at tens and twenties.
Pastors spend a good bit of time helping people with their sin. Who helps them with their sin?
I grew up Protestant. My dad was a Charismatic pastor of the Families of God denomination. Often, we noticed that - during a lot of his evangelistic-type services - that some of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite couples would come and stand across the street from the church and look in the door.
And Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church.
I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.
I was raised Catholic.
I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven't transferred my membership or anything.
Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.
The Shepherds and the Angels
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayerbooks as gifts.
I was born into a family of preachers.
It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just like the tradition of having a place to go and connect to a higher power and feel gratitude, and I think that's helpful however you find it.
Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.
I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.
The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.
I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.
And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.
My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.
I am told that only two groups carry very little negative baggage inside of Christianity: Franciscans and Quakers.
I grew up in the Methodist church. My wife grew up in the Baptist church. And wives get everything they want. So we got married in the Baptist church.
Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.
The kids go to a Quaker school. Their father and I believe a lot in community, social responsibility, making sure you give to people less fortunate than you.
I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.
My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.
Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church
A church that likes power likes prayer.
the church, but in memory I go and stand
The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.
They believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead
Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.
They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment.
I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.
I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years ... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.
Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren't bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.
I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.
My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
I'm a good Catholic - most of the time.
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
They wish the church could be more diverse, but then leave to meet in a coffee shop with other well-educated thirtysomethings who are into film festivals, NPR, and carbon offsets.
My family background was deeply Christian.
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
A priest? I said.
A monk or some such. One of those worker guys. Liberation theowhateveritis.
Theologian, said the other.
One of those guys who thinks that Jesus was on welfare.
Discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.
Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.
I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.
My wife and I come from a Christian worldview.
I am not an 'elder', 'deacon', nor a 'pastor', and I do not have any ambitions to become one!".
~R. Alan Woods {2012]
A high church for the true mediocre.
Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.