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This autobiographical account of open agnosticism, focuses on the author's fifteen-year membership of St Mark's Episcopal church (on Capitol Hill Washigton D.C.), a church that is open not only to sceptics but also to many gay men, lesbians, blacks and Jews. When Kelly first visited the church he was searching from respite from urban malaise and found himself asking how he could reconcile his diferences with the central purpose of the church, could he worship a God he didn't believe in? Could he say the prayers and sing the hymns while remaining an honest sceptic?

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"This is a delightful and compelling accountùboth a personal story and a finely crafted account of the life of a remarkable congregation. This book movingly demonstrates that congregational life is about a great deal more than the business of instilling orthodox beliefs.--Nancy Ammerman ""author of Congregation and Community"" Skeptic in the House of God presents the Christian world with a new vision of what it can mean to be the body of Christ. James Kelley relates his rare ecclesiastical experience in which love and acceptance take precedence over doctrine and dogma. It is a compelling story that made me weep that there are so few Christian churches that are, in fact, signs of the Kingdom of God where all are invited to æcome as you are.Æ.--The Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong ""Episcopal Bishop of Newark and author of Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bib"""

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James L. Kelley became an openly skeptical member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., in 1982. He worked as a lawyer for thirty years and turned to full-time writing in 1993. His first book, Psychiatric Malpractice: Stories of Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Law was published by Rutgers University Press in 1996.

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