Tomorrow I plan to write about my experience at Station 02 of my OC Pilgrimage: my visit last Sunday to the Orange County Society of Friends (the Quakers). I’m discovering that this Church-hopping is lots of fun, and I’m anticipating my next visits. Here’s a list of potential places to visit in OC throughout this [...]

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So how did I decide to spend a year visiting 2 dozen different churches, in addition to attending my own fairly regularly? Here are some possibilities: You’re looking for the Truth. God’s got to be in one of them churches, right? Nope. Maybe God’s in none of them, or all of them–but that’s not my [...]

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“Come for the Spirit, stay for the coffee” I could say that convenience dictated my choice of Mariner’s as the first station in The OC Pilgrimage. It is very close. On my pitifully short morning runs, I can look down behind UC Irvine and see the Mariner���s complex. It���s also within a 20-minute walk of [...]

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I dream of going on religious pilgrimages. Santiago de Compostela, Dharmasala, Canterbury, and the 88 temples of the island of Shikoku call out to me, and some day I will answer each of their quiet but persistent summons. To satisfy my need for immediate gratification however, I’ve devised a year-long pilgrimage here in Orange County, [...]

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