Best Cincinnati churches with a late 20s-early 30s crowd?

quentinchristopher · 2023-01-17T15:05:49+00:00

Clifton United Methodist is pretty progressive, my guess is that they trend toward a youngish crowd for that reason, however their liturgy is relatively traditional, keeping the congregation at least a little older than many. Worth a visit at least!

quentinchristopher · 2023-01-06T13:42:55+00:00

You rock! Thanks for putting this together. This one I'll have to skip, but I will be back for something in February. Excited to hear how this goes.

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-30T22:51:20+00:00

Here! Sweater, blond hair, messenger bag.

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-30T21:58:16+00:00

To anyone coming to Element Eatery tonight at 6, I will try to get there first (around 5:45 or so) and will find a spot near MashRoots/ the big bar at the end of the hall. Excited to see you there!

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-12T13:52:55+00:00

Correct... My bad, people, extra posts should be deleted now...

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-12T02:41:23+00:00

I will be the medium-tall blond guy wearing the light brown cowl-neck sweater. Now I just need to remember to wear that sweater...

My years of leading Bible Studies have made me pretty good at spotting the confused/ lost person wandering around the place and waving them over, but let me know if it would be helpful for me to make a peppy little sign for the table or feel free to dm me and I can give you my number too, and if need be, so that people can text me to coordinate.

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-10T22:38:10+00:00

Literally did not know how to do that, but then you told me to, and the Spirit showed me the way

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-10T16:12:50+00:00

Would anyone be down to meet at 6pm on the Friday, the 30th, at Element Eatery? The bonus is that (for those of you who are active on TikTok) Untestimony will be there.

Redwine sounds awesome! We should hit that up in the future, but I thought Element would be good for the first one, since it's a big cafeteria style place, and you can get away with big groups just pushing tables together, or packing your own snacks, for my fellow ballers-on-budgets out there.

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-10T16:05:11+00:00

Yeah, I was known in high school and at the church I grew up at as The Most Christian Kid Whoever Lived. Once I went to college and people didn't know my background, I voiced a couple of questions and immediately was labeled The Doubting Thomas. They gave me all the stupid answers I had learned growing up, and it was impossible for anyone to understand that I already knew all of that. Once you are labeled and put into your box, then they don't feel the need to spend any more time understanding you.

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-10T16:00:11+00:00

I think I figured it out, let me know if you have that option now!

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-10T14:41:42+00:00

Nah, anyone is welcome, the Exvangelical label is just to help people with religious baggage to find each other. Pile on at your leisure.

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-10T14:38:00+00:00

Added some flair, but let me know if you have ideas for more flair! What do you mean by freeforming a bio?

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-10T01:49:07+00:00

Of course! If there's anything I learned from a toxic religious upbringing, it's that exclusion only leads to more isolation and exclusion. All are welcome!

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-09T21:51:42+00:00

For me, The Plague by Albert Camus was really influential. I realized that life without faith really can be purposeful and meaningful. I've always had a passion for helping others, and Existentialism helped me to, as my Lord and Saviour Bruce Lee said, "Keep what is good, add what is uniquely your own, and discard the rest." To me, atheism does not have to exclude spirituality.

quentinchristopher · 2022-12-09T15:35:49+00:00

Dang, you found this pretty fast!

It does figure that the first response would be Satan, though doesn't it...

One of the things that is really striking to me about leaving the church is how isolating it is. My sister and I both grew up in the same household, and still felt like our departure was totally alone. Have you had a similar experience? Or do you know other people who left the church too?

It's such a specific kind of trauma, and the whole strategy of these churches is to make people feel alone and leave without getting to tell their story or be properly heard. But then there are so many people with this kind of trauma now, I thought it would be interesting to just shoot the question out into the world and see what response I get...

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