Looking for an Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts

For anyone who’s been church shopping, the experience can be anything but easy.  For many, church is a place where they focus on their spiritual, philosophical, psychological, and even physical well-being and decide what work they have to do and how to do it.  It can be a place of great support and comfort, and therefore, the importance of finding a spiritual home that is in accord with the sustenance one is looking for from their church can be an important and complicated endeavor.  Some focus on the congregation and decide if the people they meet are of a temperament or ideology to complement their experience.  Some find the pastor, or minister, to be the most important component.  Perhaps they will be looking for counseling or guidance and need the leader of their church to be of a particular disposition, mind set, or philosophy.  Others still, may find the works of the church to be the most important factor for them.  Many simply need to be compatible with all of these things.

Whatever draws one to church, what is fairly universal is that one wants to be comfortable.  The things that will provide that comfort will be different for everyone, so the arduous task of church shopping is inevitable.  Whether you are new to an area, are looking for a church for the first time, or no longer want to attend your current church, you can look forward to unfamiliar rites and routines, crowds of strangers milling conspicuously around you during the passing of the peace, and that most awkward of rituals for the newcomer- the dreaded coffee hour, the sharing of cookies and conversation with a roomful of people who want to make you feel far more welcome than you may want to feel in a place you may never enter again.

I have recently undergone the task in Cambridge, Massachusetts of looking for an Episcopal church.  For any in the area who might be of similar inclination or need, I am happy to share my findings.