Rave: Finding a good church

[Schlich]

I've struggled the last several years finding a good place for me. Grew up catholic, but stopped going sometime through high school. I think I've finally found a place that works and it's such a relief to be able to participate again.

I take a pretty weird blurry stance on a lot of various theological questions, I'm pretty radical in both my politics and theology, I've given up on trying to decide if God exists or not, if Christ was divine or not, and I've just been trying to find a place that can help me learn more about theology, scripture, and christian history while helping me grow as a person among a supportive community. It's been tough finding a balance between religious communities that are progressive but wishy washy feel-good BS and conservative communities that are active and vibrant who couldn't find their head from their ass theologically and uphold bigoted doctrine.

I've found a place that seems earnest in accepting me as who I am and what I believe and will let me participate in the community as such. The people are wonderful, the leaders are wonderful, they're doing good things in the community, LGBT affirming, weekly eucharist, hard-hitting sermons grounded in reality instead of fantasy. Music reeks of bad contemporary christian rock most of the time, but there's usually at least one legitimately good song during the service and it's much better than traditional style music/hymns for me personally. Might even see if I can help out in this area.

Here's to hoping that this is at least part of the picture of Christianity that will become more common going forward.