The Best of the Best

Welcome to the best of the best of Find Religion. Here are my personal favorite posts, as well as some of the most popular posts. Feel free to contact me view me if you read a post on my site that you want to nominate for this page. Thanks for reading! -Allison

Maybe God is Making People Gay on Purpose: Every day, I see more and more controversy surrounding the growing homosexual population in America. Is it “right”?… read more

Does Religion Affect your Job: I’m a freelance writer, and I regularly visit Deb Ng’s blog to check out job links and read discussions. This past week, Deb asked a very interesting question: What won’t you write about? At first, my responsewas “nothing!” However, after thinking about it for a few minutes and reading the responses already posted on the site, I realized that yes, there are certain things I won’t write about…read more

The Top Five Reasons I Go to Church: Not everyone goes to church. When I moved here in late December, I made it my goal for a few weeks to find a new church to attend. I failed…read more

What We can Take Away from Falwell’s Death: Instead of celebrating his life in a way that promotes his views (with which I disagree for the most part), I will instead choose to look at the good things we CAN take about from Falwell. Before your pop the champagne cork, consider the following take-home lessons…read more

The Starbucks Fiasco: Who knew coffee could create such a stir in the religious community? According to reports, the following message, printed on Starbucks coffee cups, has some Christians in a tizzy…read more

Tea for Two - What’s the Point?: Yesterday, I drove to my hometown, about an hour and 45 minutes from where I live now, to celebrate my mother’s birthday by going to a mother-daughter banquet with her at our church…read more

300: An Accurate Portrayal?:Here’s the post I’ve been promising you: My thoughts on the movie 300…read more

I’m Bringing Sexy Back…: …to the Bible. Ok, that might sound dumb, but because tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, I wanted to bust the myth that reading the Bible is all boring, with stuffy, old stories…read more

He Sees You When You’re Sleeping: Ok, forget about Santa…what about God? Is God always watching us? Let me tell you a true-life story here. Yesterday, I went to a farmer’s market with my roommates…read more

Tips for Holiday Services: I realize that many people out there are “once-a-year” Christians–you only go to church once a year, during the holidays. Dear reader, are you a OAYC?…read more

Black Friday Shopping Without the Lines: It’s a little ironic, isn’t it, to think how brutal Christmas gift shopping can be on black Friday! In any case, some people chose not to drive to the mall and inside logged online to grab some great deals at retailers’ websites…read more

I Pledge to Tolerate You: During the holidays, groups of people who don’t neccessarily agree on religion come together. My challenge to you is to tolerate them all…read more

College Connections: Here are some suggestions on how to stay connected to worshipping if you have found yourself in a similar situation, college student or not…read more

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Philosophy & Religion Channel Posts

  • Weekly Forecast: Avoid the Post Mother's Day Rush
    May 9, 2008 May 9 through May 15 The moon traverses the bottom half of the zodiac wheel this week, and Mars pushes into a Leo, a much more fun placement for the planet of action. Girls and [...]
  • Jesus Wept
    I was reading the headlines on ChristianHeadlines.com, when a story caught my eye: Two Rivers Ouster Falls 4 Votes Shy I clicked on the link and proceeded to read a very sad story of a church [...]
  • Guest Post At Death By One Thousand Papercuts
    May 8, 2008 As some of you know, I occasionally guest blog at Death By One Thousand Papercuts. On May 4, DBKP posted my piece about the death of the D. C. Madam, Deborah Jean [...]
  • Horoscope Analysis: Dan Rather, A Journalist's Fight
    May 8, 2008 Dan Rather fired off a new lawsuit against his former network Tuesday, charging that CBS News labeled the anchor "too hot to handle" and prevented him from being hired by other networks [...]
  • It's Really Very Simple...
    We adults can take the simplest things and make them into huge deals; mountains out of mole hills, as my mom used to say. Look at weddings... what should be a happy union in front of family and [...]
  • An Astrologer's Conversation With Her Mythical Psychiatrist
    May 7, 2008 Well, Ms. Astro, tell a bit about why you are here. I think I need some antidepressants, just for the short term, say a couple years. Why do you say that? Well, I have Saturn [...]
  • It Is Well With My Soul... From Tragedy to Triumph
    It Is Well With My Soul When peace like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my [...]
  • Cautionary Tales--The Expected Gift
    May 6, 2009 Have you heard this story? A young man, graduating from high school, was expecting a car as a graduation present. On the big day, the young man, all pumped at the idea of the expected [...]
  • What's In Your Jar of Clay?
    1) Therefore, since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2) Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of [...]
  • Other Types of Astrology
    I have been talking a lot about Western astrology, but that certainly isn’t the only astrology out there. You have already learned a little bit (or more if you have gone on to do your own research) [...]

 

Hot Off The Press

  • Mother's Day Weekend: Things to do
    Here are a couple of Saturday activities: A fun idea for mom's and kids is the "Cookies with Mom" class at All In One Bakeshop. Work together to decorate a beautiful bouquet of cookies that can be [...]
  • Kansas City Weekend Events
      Besides the fact that this weekend is Mother's Day and everyone will be taking out their Mother it'll be busy with lots of local events. Check them out, oh and don't forget, Speed Racer comes [...]
  • Bonus Love Question
    I finished up the last love question and realized that there was already another question up to be answered. So, as a bonus for this week (TGIF!), here is my answer to the second question. This [...]
  • Burma and the UN
    An angry cyclone pounded Burma last week and left a bitter cloud of despair in its wake. As entire villages now battle to survive, thousands of aid workers sit just over the borders waiting for the [...]
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    So although Paris Hilton and Benji Madden have dodged rumors of their engagement, our dear heiress admits that she and her boyfriend have already discussed marriage that she is ready to have kids [...]
  • Tom Cruise and Captain Planet
      What would Tom Cruise's life been like had he got the starring role as the voice of the cartoon character, "Captain Planet?" Rumor has it he was almost picked for the part. Yep, he had the [...]
  • Muriel's Sorted Family past
    So we're always wondering what our dog Muriel is thinking. Sure we occasionally let her lose on Trashy Celebs but it's usually to comment on animal related issues like the Michael Vick Trial or The [...]
  • Mother's Day in Austin: Brunch Ideas
    It's Mother's Day weekend and if you're like me you're still trying to figure out something special to do for your mom. My father solved my problem by whisking my mother off to the casinos in [...]
  • Weekly Forecast: Avoid the Post Mother's Day Rush
    May 9, 2008 May 9 through May 15 The moon traverses the bottom half of the zodiac wheel this week, and Mars pushes into a Leo, a much more fun placement for the planet of action. Girls and [...]
  • Trash Bin Baby in St. Louis
    The newborn baby boy that was found in the trash bin earlier this week is doing well and actually has no issues. For those that don't know, a man went to take out his trash only to discover a newborn [...]