Groups

  • Evolving Church
    Name:
    Evolving Church
    Status: Owner
    Description: Where the emerging church comes to terms with evolving knowledge! Where post-modernism grows up to tackle pre-futurism. This group is interested in the reassessemt of Christian influence & culture from a post-christian stand-point to give us a post-Christian and post-theistic naturalist framework upon which to build our bridges to the future without simply forgetting our past....This group is 'Beliefnet Evolving Church.'
  • Bnet Book Club
    Name:
    Bnet Book Club
    Status: Member
    Description: <b>What are you currently reading?</b> </br></br> This discussion group is open to all faiths, all political ideologies, all PEOPLE to discuss your favorite reads! <br /><br /> How did a book solidify your ideas, or serve to transform them? <br /><br /> One book per thread, please. If you see a thread already devoted to a book you're interested in, feel free to jump in! Don't see a book you're interested in? Start a new one! <br /><br /> Please feel free to state why an author's work either supports or detracts from your belief. Healthy discussion, courteous discourse and debate with civility in mind are more than welcome. Posts that lead to proselytizing and/or attempts to convert will be reported and repeat offenders will be discouraged. <br /><br />This does NOT mean religious works are unwelcome by any means. There is a lot of value in religious, spiritual and other forms of literature. But no soap boxes or street corner preachers, K? ;) <br /><br /> Some more food for thought..... At times we all need a little "mind candy".... Whether you call it light fiction, pulp fiction or sheer escapism, not all books we discuss here need be excluded to "heavy" lifting or require a lot of mental exercise! There's nothing wrong with interspersing more "serious" work with popular fiction. :) Our greatest, most universal truths can usually be found within the boundaries of imagination and fiction if only because said boundaries can be stretched and expanded beyond our current limits of reality.
  • Beliefnet Circle of Reason
    Name:
    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!