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I grew up in the Episcopal Church.\u00a0 For a short while my family went to a church when I was about six years old.\u00a0 It did not last long for my family, but something drew me in and for the remainder of my childhood, I went to the Episcopal Church and I continued into my adult years.\u00a0 My father took me every Sunday and to all the other Holy Days I wished to take part in. He would join me at Midnight Masses at Christmas and Easter.<\/p>\n
We had a routine every Sunday when I returned from Sunday School and Church.\u00a0 We would sit with the scripture of that day and read it.\u00a0 He would ask me what they said it meant. Then he might offer an alternative meaning of his own.\u00a0 Finally, he would ask me what I thought it meant.\u00a0 After I told him, he would smile and say, “Excellent! What you think is all that matters.”<\/p>\n
What that meant to me was that it was good to question and it was good to have my own opinion of what all the stories in the Bible mean. The result of that caused me to think perhaps I wasn’t even a Christian.\u00a0 But in the later years of my life, I came to realize that we all have our own beliefs and interpretations of the teachings and the stories of the Bible and the Church.\u00a0 Most of us just don’t share those beliefs with others.<\/p>\n