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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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Is Karma Real?
I've been exposed to a number of differing versions of the karma story. Some say it is about a life balancing thing – live a bad life now and you pay for it later. For others it can be almost [...]
Is it the Matrix?
Imagine The Matrix world - what if the computer simulation already had characters running around, operating according to basic programming. Neo wants to join the game, so the computer 'models' him [...]
Spirituality
If there is one subject that generates an amazing amount of dialogue, discussion and argument without ever apparently reaching a conclusion, it would be Spirituality. Not only do people disagree [...]
Weekly Forecast: A Very Hot Ticket
February 20 to February 27 [caption id="attachment_2126" align="alignleft" width="333" caption="Love's a Hot Ticket"][/caption]This week a very spicy Venus in Aries makes friendly energetic [...]
Speechless... and loved.
Sometimes life leaves you speechless. About a week ago, a friend I hadn't spoken with in nearly 15 years found me on Facebook. For those of you that don't know, Facebook is called a "social [...]
Fields of Life?
From Kirlian auras, through to electric fields, people have attempted to show that, if we are not just bodies living in a purely physical realm, our ‘spirit’ can be measured or shown to have [...]
The Astrology of The Tragic Story of Travis the Chimp
February 19, 2009 [caption id="attachment_2119" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Travis the Chimp"][/caption]In a story that is sad and tragic for all parties concerned, a fourteen year old, [...]
Love and Hate
I think maybe 'lack of self awareness' creates automatisms - when one is at all self-aware, there is little that is automatic. When one isn't, almost everything is automatic. Lack of knowledge limits [...]
This Little Light of Mine
14"You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in [...]
Apathy
I was in a discussion recently about Apathy. A person was saying that because of trauma, they were deep in apathy for a good part of the past few years. That raised my interest – I don't know if [...]

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