Roger Strouse became a Unitarian-Universalist in grade school in Ohio along with his RE teaching mother, the religious one in the family.  They moved to Silver Spring when Roger was in his teens and attended a number of different UU congregations.  Off to college Unitarian-Universalism was mainly in the rear-view mirror.  Roger’s college journey had…

Caroline grew up in the DC area.  Her home church was St. Luke Lutheran in Silver Spring.  The best part and the thing that stuck with her was singing in the choir.  During her college year abroad year in Germany, she came to the conclusion she was an atheist.   Nonetheless, she still looked into churches…

Brian Calhoon grew up in a United Methodist church that emphasized mission work, but not the kind you might think of. In his late teens Brian went to two rust belt cities and a Native American reservation and fixed stuff, no preaching involved. The church of his childhood felt like home and while he learned…

Tricia Hanson grew up in Minnesota in a religious Catholic household.  She describes Sunday church as a religion in itself and a Catholic grade school for two years.  But as she came of age in the 1970s she began to explore other faiths after seeing how issues like prohibitions on contraception and the divorce of…