Emmett attended the local Jewish Community Center for aftercare from grades 1 through halfway through 3 and was pretty convinced that he was Jewish. (Technically true, since it's matrlineal and goes back a couple generations - though both his mother and grandmother were not practicing Jews and his mother certainly doesn't identify as such.)
I don't have much of a plan for educating Emmett about religion, though obviously his options in the Bay Area are quite diverse. I would like to take him to Glide Memorial in the City (a very famous, very liberal, very Black, very socially progressive church - all the Baptist singing with none of the judgment and guilt), or the Church of John Coltrane (an actual church here, with jazz as the service). My own spiritual needs and questions get dealt with outside of a church or community, and in honesty I'm not sure if quoting Kierkegaard to him is going to mean much before he's in his 20s.
It's a source of some pain to my father that Emmett wasn't baptized, however.
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Date: 2005-09-29 01:50 am (UTC)I don't have much of a plan for educating Emmett about religion, though obviously his options in the Bay Area are quite diverse. I would like to take him to Glide Memorial in the City (a very famous, very liberal, very Black, very socially progressive church - all the Baptist singing with none of the judgment and guilt), or the Church of John Coltrane (an actual church here, with jazz as the service). My own spiritual needs and questions get dealt with outside of a church or community, and in honesty I'm not sure if quoting Kierkegaard to him is going to mean much before he's in his 20s.
It's a source of some pain to my father that Emmett wasn't baptized, however.