A Year of Sundays
I SPENT A YEAR GOING TO CHURCH SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO. Once upon a time, a now-ex-girlfriend and I hit up a different church each week. Afterward, we each wrote a blog post about it, separately, sort of like Siskel and Ebert. Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Spiritualist, Buddhist and beyond, we didn't care. We just dropped by with notepad, camera and three kids in tow. Our relationship didn't stand the test of time, but I'm happy to say some of my writing does. It was a fun, cathartic project. It also won a Portland Best Reads award from Willamette Week . Feel free to start with my trip to the Kingdom Hall: Crashing the Memorial: Better than a 1000 Therapy Sessions Spent Elsewhere Jehovah’s Witnesses, Disfellowshipping and the Art of Civil Disobedience O.G. Christian Ash Wednesday: Because Sunday Just Isn’t Enough (The Catholics) The Grotto: Sinning Ain’t No Picnic (The Catholics) A Church Doing Everything it Can to Make Itself Useless (In a Good Way) (The Catholics) Taizé
