Guest guest Posted July 2, 2001 Report Share Posted July 2, 2001 How about confused!! My mum's a Roman Catholic, but her father was a Buddhist (rather alternative for a London bus-driver in the 1930s!), my dad was bog standard CofE from a long line of CofE peasants, Sam's father is Jewish but not his mother (Baptist lapsed) so Sam does not have any religion as his parents always said he could choose when he was older and of course he did not! Maybe DDs could marry a Sikh or a Taoist and we would be truly multi-religional (is that a word?!) Francesca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2001 Report Share Posted July 2, 2001 Thoroughly Anglican, but with good friends who are RC (lapsed and practising), Baptist, Methodist and Jewish. And agnostic. And chapel. BTW, Ruthie, I asked my Jewish friend if she knew you (my description included " ...early 50s.... very frum .... 8 children " and she said " In her 50s and only 8 children? Can't be that frum! What's she been doing? " - hope this makes you laugh!) and interestingly enough she knew ANOTHER Jewish crime fiction writer from Golders Green! (or are you pseudonymous?) Anneliese and Tim who hasn't been so terrible today (nightmare baby over his car seat for the last fortnight) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2001 Report Share Posted July 2, 2001 Thoroughly Anglican, but with good friends who are RC (lapsed and practising), Baptist, Methodist and Jewish. And agnostic. And chapel. BTW, Ruthie, I asked my Jewish friend if she knew you (my description included " ...early 50s.... very frum .... 8 children " and she said " In her 50s and only 8 children? Can't be that frum! What's she been doing? " - hope this makes you laugh!) and interestingly enough she knew ANOTHER Jewish crime fiction writer from Golders Green! (or are you pseudonymous?) Anneliese and Tim who hasn't been so terrible today (nightmare baby over his car seat for the last fortnight) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2001 Report Share Posted July 2, 2001 <<> If not it should be ;o) Lonnie Phoebe & Eloisa's mama & expecting a Christmas delivery... My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what you start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of chips and a Chocolate cake. I feel better already. ----- Original Message ----- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2001 Report Share Posted July 2, 2001 <<> If not it should be ;o) Lonnie Phoebe & Eloisa's mama & expecting a Christmas delivery... My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what you start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of chips and a Chocolate cake. I feel better already. ----- Original Message ----- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2001 Report Share Posted July 2, 2001 > BTW, Ruthie, I asked my Jewish friend if she knew you (my description included " ...early 50s.... very frum .... 8 children " and she said " In her 50s and only 8 children? Can't be that frum! What's she been doing? " - hope this makes you laugh!) Haha, we aren't Catholic you know. We are allowed to use contraception, just not completely at will. We are allowed to space our families according to what we can manage to cope with. I had my last baby at 37, and had a lot of trouble after that, culminating in a hysterectomy a few years later; the ultimate contraceptive!! and interestingly enough she knew ANOTHER Jewish crime fiction writer from Golders Green! (or are you pseudonymous?) Really? I wonder who. No I write under my own name. Can you ask her who? Ruthie > > Anneliese and Tim who hasn't been so terrible today (nightmare baby over his car seat for the last fortnight) > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2001 Report Share Posted July 4, 2001 I'm semi CofE. I was brought up CofE, went to church primary school, sunday school, in church choir etc. Then we moved when I was 11 and started going to the new church but my interest fizzled out about age 13, though I did get the bus to go to an evangelical church with a friend from school as the services were more fun and the youth club great for 14-15. I still believe and I still pray and occasionally read the bible. We had DS christened as I wanted him to be able to have the opportunity later to make his own decisions. DH wasn't particularly thrilled about this (as a complete non-believer) but went along with it. Fortunately the vicar didn't bat an eyelid about us not being church go-ers since he believed the Christening was the welcoming of a new person to the church in his own right, rather than about our own beliefs and practices. In fact the vicar was very accepting (although at no time was he actually told of DH and one of our god-parent's beliefs - or rather non-beliefs) since he said that if at any time any of us felt unable to say the words we had to repeat, then we should just abstain for that particular sentence. He also encouraged us to speak on behalf of the child even if we couldn't do it for ourselves, which did get round DH's and the godparent's " problem " . Todman Treasurer, Stansted Branch (R5) Mum to , 3½ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2001 Report Share Posted July 4, 2001 Oh, Hannah, I belong to the Waverley Singers who give most of their concerts in St. 's C of S Garrison Church in Aldershot! And we, the taxpayers, are paying for it to be kept TOO DARN HOT! Hope to see you at our next Xmas concert? Anneliese and Baby Tim RE: being nosy ;o) (abput religion) (snip) My DH was brought up Church of Scotland so I decided to try that. We have a big church near us in Aldershot, so the two eldest boys have been christened there and Euan's christening will be there in September. (snip) Hannah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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