if you go to church...?

[georgeharrison]

How far do you drive? Do you go every week? Does the distance affect how often you attend?

[toratoratori]

I'll answer for synagogue:

It's about a 25 minute drive without traffic.

We probably go about once a month. It's tough to come all the way home (Tukwila) and then drive back north (the temple is in Wedgwood), so we really only go if services start early.

Distance definitely affects how often we attend, but we unfortunately don't have a lot of options. The temple in Tukwila is Messianic (aka. Jews for Jesus) and the next closest temple is basically a Jewish mega-church that makes me profoundly uncomfortable.

[mkate710]

It's about 15-20 minutes. I help in the preschool program once a month but we haven't gone very consistently otherwise in quite a while. It doesn't have to do with distance though, it's that we need to find a new one and aren't happy with the direction our current one is heading.

[7costanza]

Jan 17, 2015 14:54:06 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

I'll answer for synagogue:

It's about a 25 minute drive without traffic.

We probably go about once a month. It's tough to come all the way home (Tukwila) and then drive back north (the temple is in Wedgwood), so we really only go if services start early.

Distance definitely affects how often we attend, but we unfortunately don't have a lot of options. The temple in Tukwila is Messianic (aka. Jews for Jesus) and the next closest temple is basically a Jewish mega-church that makes me profoundly uncomfortable.

What does Jews for Jesus mean? Just curious.

We don't go to church with any regularity. When we did, it was about a 10 minute drive, then we moved and it became a 25 minute drive. That pretty much put an end to our attendance, and we haven't found a new one we like.

[niq]

Google maps says it's 13 minutes in no traffic, but when I go with babyniq I leave 30-40 minutes before I need to be there. I go every week. I'm in the church choir; if it were more than half an hour I would probably look for an Episcopal church closer to home, even if it's not the cathedral.

[toratoratori]

Jan 18, 2015 23:49:59 GMT -5 7costanza said:

Jan 17, 2015 14:54:06 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

I'll answer for synagogue:

It's about a 25 minute drive without traffic.

We probably go about once a month. It's tough to come all the way home (Tukwila) and then drive back north (the temple is in Wedgwood), so we really only go if services start early.

Distance definitely affects how often we attend, but we unfortunately don't have a lot of options. The temple in Tukwila is Messianic (aka. Jews for Jesus) and the next closest temple is basically a Jewish mega-church that makes me profoundly uncomfortable.

What does Jews for Jesus mean? Just curious.

We don't go to church with any regularity. When we did, it was about a 10 minute drive, then we moved and it became a 25 minute drive. That pretty much put an end to our attendance, and we haven't found a new one we like.

Jews for Jesus are effectively Christians who consider themselves Jewish by birth. I find the movement to be profoundly confusing, and also in direct conflict with many of the main tenets of Judaism.

ETA: I use the word "profoundly" too much.

[picksthemusic]

We haven't attended Mass since we moved. We're terrible Catholics. But we need to get B baptized soon, so we'll start attending a parish that's about 10 minutes away. If we don't like it there, we can go to another parish that's about 20 minutes away in the other direction.