Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

My former church while adding their own "style" to hymns and songs, we start and end on time. People would leave if they had to stay pass 11:45 (service starts promptly at 10) I

I'm glad to read all these positive comments on the Catholic Church. I plan to convert to Catholism once I move out of my parents home. It is something I've wanted for a while now.

First off, let me say that I find it sad that churches in general are still some of the most segregated places left in America. With that being said, I grew up in a congregation that was 98% black and any families that were white that attended, didn't stick around for more than a couple of years bec...

admit - TRULY admit Show of hands, who else read that and immediately had the song "Did you repent, truly repent?" run through your head? There isn't a way to be what they expect, and that's why secret guilt (and sometimes secret lives) runs rampant in the COC. They hide things. They put ...

I remember my church having the youth participate in an abstinence only weekend because a few of the teenage girls were getting pregnant (at the time it was 2) and they felt it was a problem. I was 19 at the time and had been sexually active for years and was on the pill. Thankfully I was raised by ...

At my former CoC, Mother's Day was a highly celebrated event. Mainly because that church is built on single mothers. That is the only time women have an important role because we are second class when it comes to everything else. Another reason I stopped going. I was tired of not being worthy to do ...

I see anxiety and depression as a medical condition that can be brought on by genetics, environment and in my case it's a combination of both.

Thank you for your replies. My depression had been in remission and life had been going great up until the past month. The minister of my former church as I said was dismissed for many things and that has caused a rift to where I lost my best childhood friend over miscommunication and being so far i...

Thanks so much! I will do just that!! Thank you so much

I can really words of support and guidance right now because I am really feeling hurt and lost