by Lisa Stanger | Nov 10, 2012 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
My spiritual life and faith journey are extremely important to me, but I have a restless heart and a questioning mind that have prevented me from settling into faith traditions that seem to be passed along without much thinking or reflection.? That?s why I call First...
by Lisa Stanger | Nov 4, 2012 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
I enjoy being among the church family at First United Church, and I feel good about my two growing daughters also being a part of this liberal, inclusive congregation.???Our traditions at home are a hybrid of East and West.??My husband doesn?t have church-going as...
by Lisa Stanger | Nov 1, 2012 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
My mother was a Methodist and a Republican.? My father was a Baptist and a Democrat.? After years of marriage, two children, and a falling out with Fort Wayne Methodists, they became Presbyterians.?? They never did resolve the politics. Linda and I were married in a...
by Lisa Stanger | Oct 28, 2012 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
I am a senior at Indiana University studying voice performance at the Jacobs School of Music.? The way I like to think of myself is this:? I?m a son, brother, friend, performer, and in general, just a normal college student.? But there is one thing about me which in...
by Lisa Stanger | Oct 25, 2012 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
I was a faithful church-goer from childhood through high school, but after I came to school here at IU, I spent the next 20 years avoiding church, except for weddings and funerals.? Those 20 years weren?t exactly well-spent, and after surviving yet another unfortunate...
by Lisa Stanger | Oct 19, 2012 | Real People: Stories from Our Members
Don’t laugh – I found First United in the yellow pages. ?Yes, I’d just moved in and my computer wasn’t hooked up, but I’m old and probably would have looked first in the yellow pages anyway. ?Our wonderful new web site has taken the place...
