When we started off 2010, one of our many resolutions for the new year was to find a church home here in Philadelphia. Since moving here last year, we had been attending Christ Church every now and then, but decided this past Christmas that we wanted to see what else was out there. After checking out a hand full of "gay friendly" churches in Philadelphia, we've decided that the place we were looking for was right under our noses the entire time.
Before we moved to Philadelphia last year, we spent a lot of time researching the city. Other than our apartment hunting trip, neither Warren nor I had ever been to Philly. One thing we decided during that research was that we definitely wanted to attend Christ Church. It seemed to have everything; steps from our then-new Old City apartment, it had an LGBT group, and it had more history that we could handle being the church of the American revolution. Even still, we thought something was missing, we just didn't know what that something was.
A few Sunday's ago we attended a meeting of the young professionals group at Christ Church, a first for Warren and I. It's funny, there are those moments when you know that, for better or worse, you're home...and that's the feeling we both felt. We met some great people during this meeting and had a wonderful open discussion led by the church's Rector about the Episcopal church's history, beliefs and feelings towards the LGBT community. By the time we walked out of that meeting we knew in fact that we were home.
