Finding the Swedish Bible Belt

Since moving to Sweden, one challenge has been finding a church to attend.  In Atlanta, we had a great church that was right around the corner, had a great jazz trio that played at 10am and offered plenty of room to step away and feed / console Calvin if he decided he didn’t want to be in church at that time.  Oh, and they offered mass in English as well…

Unfortunately, it has been decidedly more difficult to find a comparable option here in Sweden.  For one thing, churches are just not as common here in agnostic (at best) northern Europe than in the Bible Belt of America.  Here, churches have partnerships, with groups of 2-4 parishes rotating who hosts the service that week.  We’ve been caught a few times