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the Empathy List #150: I Miss Church Camp

...but not the exclusive theology that I learned there.

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Apr 29, 2025
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Hello friend, Liz here.

Did you ever go to sleep-away camp?

In the seventh grade, I packed a duffel to the gills and headed into the Rockies for five days of glamping, rappelling, canoeing, ziplining, lake blobbing and sunbathing, foot races, mosquitoes and crushes.

There, at Eagle Lake, I would live out my own Parent Trap adventure.

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Word slayer, question asker, rabble rouser by day. Ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church, future hospital chaplain. Author of Church Camp (2025) and The Color of Life (2019).
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