Church
Previous: Dr. Kooiker Next: Band Dad had mentioned there had been some deliberation, early on in the marriage, about which in church in town they should go to -- it hadn't been a slam-dunk decision and after the fact he was still second-guessing it a bit. I can see how it might have been an issue, both for them and for Dad's parents who were alive and living close by in the early '50s. They were stern Calvinists, but Mom was not particularly religious – the few things she said on the subject sounded barely Christian. The churches in town tended to be theologically liberal, befitting a free-wheeling beach resort that liked to party a lot on summer weekends and was even a gay haven back when that was still a scandal all over southwestern Michigan. I'm guessing that our family wasn't quite posh for the Episcopalians, and that the Congregationalists were a bit too liberal for Dad. The Catholics and Christian Science were out totally. That Methodists sometimes had li...