"Swimming the Tiber"
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    If you have converted to...
    ... you have...

    Roman Catholicism... swam the Tiber.

    Anglicanism... went down the Canterbury trail.

    Russian Orthodoxy... ridden the Trans Siberian.

    Episcopalianism (TEC)... taken the 6 to Grand Central, then over to 2nd street Ave.

    Lutheranism... went ice fishing with the boys.

    Mormonism... (sing it with me) crossed the wide Missouri.
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  • Liam
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    Funny!

    There should be a homage to the Finger Lakes somewhere. The famous "Burned Over District" was in Western NY, including the Finger Lakes westward, and was for decades the heartland of all manner of religious/spiritual wildfires.

    After all, Joseph Smith started all things LDS at Hill Cumorah, north of Canandaigua Lake, and Brigham Young grew up north of Honeoye Lake.

    And Charles FInney held forth in Rochester. Among many others.

    Also the terrain for American Spiritualism, and Lily Dale Assembly remains its peculiar Vatican.

    And not too far from Lily Dale Assembly, the Chautauqua Institution yet reigns - mostly serenely, except for one nasty incident - year after year.

    Must be something in the waters...because there were also important spiritual awakening among native nations before and after European settlers arrived in force. It appears to be one of those Special Places.

    Maybe, for a wildfire kind of one-off conversion of enthusiasm: Canoeing Cayuga, Keuka, Canandaigua and Chautauqua, or something...evoking the serial portage-to-portage kind of movement often found with such enthusiasms. (Btw, such portages being much easier in winter, when sledding - even without draft animals - made movement over portages much easier; perhaps a nod to spiritual dark nights that precede such enthusiasms?)
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  • Diapason84
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    Episcopalianism (TEC)... taken the 6 to Grand Central, then over to 2nd street.


    2nd Avenue, not Street. Get out a piece of paper and write "I will never play the hymns of William Albright from the 1982" 50 times.
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  • Benton
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    Lefebvrism...flown to Écône.
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  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    > 2nd Avenue, not Street.

    I'm so embarrassed.