An Invitation to 'Recovering Catholics'

It happened one night years ago at the local Lutheran church. I should have seen it coming. After all, itâ??s the kind of thing I had been around for years. But this is the first time I really noticed it. And it bothered me. My wife and I were taking an Alpha Course over the course of roughly ten weeks. The thrust of the course was to foster small group discussion on the tenets of the Christian faith following an ostensibly ecumenical (effectively Protestant) instructive video by a charismatic, if not slightly goofy, Anglican. And so the video switched off and the married couple leading the group opened the discussion with a few thought-provoking questions. It wasnâ??t long before the discussion broadened and came upon a matter of doctrine when she said it. A middle aged woman with glasses and a â??free-spiritedâ? air about her just tossed her cheeky comment out there for everyone to consider or comment.