Groups

  • Art, Healing, and Transformation
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    Art, Healing, and Transformation
    Status: Member
    Description: This group is about using art as a means to healing and transformation on both the individual and global levels. Please share your art and your stories, thoughts, and feelings. How has art -- in the broadest sense of the term -- influenced your life, either as creator or consumer?
  • Beliefnet Circle of Reason
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    Beliefnet Circle of Reason
    Category: General Discussion
    Status: Member
    Description: Beliefnet Circle of Reason (BCOR) is a virtual "local circle" of The Circle of Reason (www.circleofreason.org) -- a fellowship of the religious and non-religious who believe communal commitment to reason will transform the world. We are a truly ecumenical site to find, recruit, converse with and encourage -- from all walks of life, all biologies, all beliefs, all societies -- those who are your own kinsmen and kinswomen - the reasoning kind!
  • Jewish Humor Enthusiasts
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    Jewish Humor Enthusiasts
    Status: Member
    Description: Let's admit it: We love to laugh! Whether it's along to a late-night Seinfeld rerun, a quirky Woody Allen flick, or the newest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, our thirst for witty, self-deprecating, Jewish humor cannot be quenched! Let's use this group as a way to get a hit of it every day--even when there's nothing on the tube! Talk about your favorite episodes, share your latest finds, or analyze new plot twists--for this, ladies and gentlemen, is your virtual cawfee tawk.
  • Children of the Divine Mercy
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    Children of the Divine Mercy
    Status: Member
    Description: "The message of The Divine Mercy is simple. It is that God loves us — all of us. And, he wants us to recognize that His mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share His joy." Jesus' Call to Mercy: "I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it. I am giving you three ways of exercising mercy toward your neighbor: the first — by deed, the second — by word, the third — by prayer. In these three degrees is contained the fullness of mercy, and it is an unquestionable proof of love for Me. By this means a soul glorifies and pays reverence to My mercy. Many souls ... are often worried because they do not have the material means with which to carry out an act of mercy. Yet spiritual mercy, which requires neither permissions nor storehouses, is much more meritorious and is within the grasp of every soul. If a soul does not exercise mercy somehow or other, it will not obtain My mercy on the day of judgment. Oh, if only souls knew how to gather eternal treasure for themselves, they would not be judged, for they would forestall My judgment with their mercy" (1317). "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but have life everlasting. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but to be its savior." John 3:13
  • Kicking the judgment and gossip habit
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    Kicking the judgment and gossip habit
    Status: Member
    Description: This group will focus on discussing how we judge others and gossip about them. The purpose is to kick both the judgment and gossip habits by being able to vent with one another and confessing those times when we have been guilty of talking about others.
  • Effective Interpersonal Communication
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    Effective Interpersonal Communication
    Category: Angels
    Status: Member
    Description: Explore the intricacies of interpersonal communication. Let us share how we navigate these sometimes treacherous waters, whether with intimate partners, friendships, colleagues, or acquaintances.
  • LitLovers
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    LitLovers
    Status: Member
    Description: Grab that cup of coffee or tea and enter into a warm, rich, and alluring environment where writers or enthusiasts can relax and discuss whatever they please. Whether it's a favoured book or critique for literature pieces, here you will clear your mind.
  • Single Christians
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    Single Christians
    Status: Member
    Description: Being single in the church can be an extremely difficult life. For the most part, most churches focus heavily on the family element. If "singles" ministries do exist, they are usually simply "match-maker" programs to find a spouse. Yet, Jesus and Paul both uphold the single lifestyle as being not only good, but in many ways, remaining single for the sake of the Gospel is a preferable lifestyle. This group is designed for single people to meet, network, discuss their struggles, share ideas and insights on singles ministries, discuss the bible, and whatever else you can think of that pertains to being single in the church. Whatever your reason for being single, you are welcome and accepted here as a Christian "singleton!"
  • Bnetters Against Activity Feed!
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    Bnetters Against Activity Feed!
    Status: Member
    Description: Bnetters Against Activity Feed! is an ecumenical, cross-platform, "SINGLE ISSUE VOTER" kind of group!! The intrusive Activity Feed should either be removed altogether or an ability to OPT OUT should be provided. I like my Bnet Buds otherwise we wouldn’t be friends, but does this mean I want a “shout out” every time I rate a photo, post a comment on someone's profile, change my own profile, write a journal entry or make a new friend? NOOOOO! Let's join hands to register our dissatisfaction with this intrusion by visiting the PETITION thread! We’re not Facebook, MySpace or Linked In! We’re Beliefnet! :) As members of Bnetters Against Activity Feed! you have an opportunity to register your discontent with this alleged “enhancement” initiated by Beliefnet in June of 2008. Despite assurances from staff that they're "looking into" methods to either disable this feature or make it optional, nearly 4 months later nothing has been done. At first glance, this is a very small problem. Yet when you place these Activity feeds in the larger context of online privacy, FISA and how the accessibility of online information plays into counter-terrorism meaures, perhaps this problem isn't as small or unimportant as first meets the eye! Bnet Administration modeled the activity feed after Face Book. Are you aware that Facebook members protested against this to the point that Face Book woke up and made it optional? http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1532225,00.html
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