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I DIDN’T WAKE up one morning and say, “I want to be an Episcopalian.” I decided I wanted to commit to and become a part of the (Anglo-Catholic) parish I had grown to love and the people who had so warmly embraced me as part of their family. So I went through confirmation class not as part of a spiritual journey but as a means to an end. When Father Lyon suggested we might want to go to confession before our confirmation, I obliged not because I expected anything from...