is there any chance that you’re misreading my frustration?

In general I'd say it's more likely than not. :-)

My brain kind of condensed your post into, "Church A is a 'no' because of X. Church B is a 'no' because of Y. Church C is a 'no' because of Z. Maybe I could just listen to sermons on my iPod instead." Reading back over it, you never really made that last connection.

I feel your pain, though. The prospect of "church-hunting" was not one I looked forward to—even with Michelle. But we did get lucky, I think, with Newton Pres. We just started attending the Sunday School—sorry, "Adult Formation"—classes, and I for one have been pleasantly surprised by the "calibre" of the discourse. Michelle enjoyed it too—said she felt she'd been missing such intellectual stimulation (of the Christian variety) for a while.

Anyway, sorry for my misreading, didn't mean to imply those things. I was talking to myself as much as anyone with that post.