a short random personal observation

So today, as I sit down to finalize prep for a class at Calvary on Sunday on religion & science perspectives on the creation narrative, I realize once again the complete absurdity of my personal situation. Here I am, about to prep for an adult forum as a completely normal and routine part of my workday, because I was invited to teach a class on a subject I've spent years now acquiring a certain level of expertise on--after spending days in the rabbit-hole of arguing for the possibility, the ability and privilege of my doing such things. Sometimes--most of the time--it's really healthy for me to inhabit this whole other world where this debate doesn't exist. But today, stepping from one to the other is jarring.

random

who's that chick? didn't anyone ask if she were a confirmed Episcopalian? :)

Campbellites? Nay, Cranmerites!

So, this is really Brent's post except that he's too lazy to write it so I have to do it instead. No, no, that's slanderously untrue. Brent is too busy writing his funereal dissertation to blog, whereas I'm just about to give up the pretense of being an academic altogether after last week's fiasco.

We have noticed over the past couple of years, Brent and I, that an incredible number of discontented CofCers have landed in the Episcopal Church. We're discovering new refugees all the time--mostly through the blogosphere but Brent also met two people while visiting VTS a few weeks ago, someone in the PTS bookstore, and there's a priest here in the Diocese of New Jersey who went to Lipscomb... It's enough to make us wonder, anyhow; and so here are the questions I have, for anyone who happens to be a former CofCer turned Episcopalian (not Episcopal, which is an adjective).

1. Why the Episcopal Church? Why not something closer to home--like Disciples of Christ, for instance?
   
2. How many other churches did you check out before choosing the Episcopal Church as home?
   
3. What continuities do you see between the Episcopal Church and Churches of Christ?
4. What was the last theological/doctrinal "hurdle" to overcome in joining the Episcopal Church?
5. Aren't vestments cool?
6. How long have you been Episcopalian? Do you still maintain any CofC ties? Does your family pray for your salvation or are they cool with your Episcopalian-ness?
7. Have you met many other former CofCers? Why do you think so many turn to the Episcopal Church when they leave the CofC?
8. Give us your vote--do we baptize Clare as an infant or not? (Not that sacraments are a matter of majority rule or anything...)