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- Nov 07, 2020
Episcopal Quotes
On growing up between faiths and finding your own.
These Episcopal quotes are personal rather than doctrinal, tracing childhoods spent moving between a Jewish upbringing, an Episcopal school, and a Baptist college, plus family memories rooted in the Episcopal Church.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My formative years were all shaped by a mother who was very sad and had a drinking problem, while my father was lonely and angry. He was an Episcopal priest and raised four kids on his own.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings. Rather, governance involves seeking how God is revealing his work through others in the community.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020