Monthly Archives: April 2012

Church Hunting (3): The Places We Land

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Addie Zierman

We didn’t so much choose our church as crash into it. We were an airplane with a burning wing, damaged, making an emergency landing at the first wide open place we could see. Our criteria for a church was simply … Continue reading →

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When “Worship Service” looks like a Festival

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Addie Zierman

Worship Service: Synonym for church service. Welcome: We leave for the Festival of Faith and Writing at five in the morning, coffee, coffee, coffee as we slip through pre-rush-hour Chicago and into Michigan farmland and sunrise. We talk the whole … Continue reading →

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Church Hunting (2): My Story

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Addie Zierman

In the second year of our marriage, we lived on the outskirts of Shanghai, in a small, factory town of half-a-million. On Sundays, we took a rickshaw to the town’s Three Self Church– the one that is owned and monitored … Continue reading →

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