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    • 9 Ratings
    • 3364 Views
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    Notes from Church (a college student's religious experiment)

    MAY 11, 2012 11:27AM

    By Girl W. Curl


    Topics: religion, curious, science, christian, agnostic, secular, atheist, church, god, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 859 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Saying It Out Loud

    APRIL 10, 2012 10:16PM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: ovarian cancer, honesty, chemotherapy, church, baldness

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1682 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    The Dead Pope Rises: Coptic Conundrum in Egypt

    MARCH 20, 2012 1:08PM

    By Naqib's Daughter


    Topics: coptic, pope, shenouda, patriarch, mubarak, sadat, nasser, church, azhar, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 1743 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Marching Through Chemo

    MARCH 14, 2012 8:16AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: chemotherapy, hair loss, cancer, side effects, prayer, statistics, church

    • Editor's Pick
    • 35 Ratings
    • 4844 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    What Kind of Girl Are You?

    FEBRUARY 14, 2012 7:18PM

    By Lauren J Barnhart


    Topics: carlene bauer, not that kind of girl, books, memoir, writer, fundamentalist, evangelical, religion, church, sex, marriage

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 449 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Sorry, Kid, There Is No Santa Claus

    DECEMBER 12, 2011 9:55PM

    By Kellie Wardman


    Topics: the truth about santa, kids, christmas, easter bunny, leprechauns, church, unitarian, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1540 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    Grace

    JULY 21, 2011 4:27PM

    By bnzoot


    Topics: colleage, episcopal church, carmina burana, church, christianity, julian, science, medical, feeding tube, ventilator, muscular dystrophy, faith, grace, friend, friendship, health, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 33 Ratings
    • 1456 Views
    • 62 Comments
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    From the Kitchen Counter with Love this Mother's Day

    MAY 4, 2011 6:49PM

    By Susie Lindau


    Topics: open+call, mother's day, family, photographs, memoir, guitar, church, guitar mass

    • Editor's Pick
    • 31 Ratings
    • 2301 Views
    • 127 Comments
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    Does The Catholic League Speak for Abuse Victims?

    APRIL 13, 2011 7:40AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: pedophilia, homosexuality, church, rape, molestation, bill donohue, john jay college, catholic league, victims, belief/religion, environment, family, gay/lesbian, news, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 65 Ratings
    • 2775 Views
    • 98 Comments
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    16 and Pregnant When Reality TV was Just Black and White

    FEBRUARY 16, 2011 10:46AM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: losing your religion, unwed mothers, adoption, street walkers, church, hookers, minister, white slave trade, adoption, quebec, teen moms, 16 and pregnant, baby broker, adoption, peacock babies, springer babies, rosen babies, hightower babies, montreal black market babies, cole babies, butterbox babies, belief/religion, books, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 25948 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Is nothing sacred? The sad demise of Norway's "sex priest"

    NOVEMBER 22, 2010 1:18PM

    By Alan Nothnagle


    Topics: pope benedict, catholic church, pope, sex, lutherans, church, norway

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 2688 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Glenn Beck: If You Like it, It's Right Wing

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 4:21PM

    By American Heretic


    Topics: politics, belief/religion, glenn beck, restoring honor, rally, mlk, martin luther king, civil rights, obama, social justice, racist, racism, communist, communism, progressive, 8/28, lies, libertarian, conservative, right wing, jack o'dell, stanley levison, elizabeth dilling, slavery, nazism, anti-semitic, nazi, socialist, marxist, church, religion, the red network, conspiracy, infiltrators

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 4142 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    The Christianity I Used to Know

    SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 9:41AM

    By Katy B.


    Topics: tea party, childhood, family, church, quran, intolerance, god, religion, hate, love, christianity

    • Editor's Pick
    • 21 Ratings
    • 4100 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    Don't like separation of Church and State? Come to Germany!

    JUNE 9, 2010 9:54AM

    By Alan Nothnagle


    Topics: religion, state, church, germany

    • Editor's Pick
    • 50 Ratings
    • 2801 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    Mom Day: God's Study Hall

    FEBRUARY 22, 2010 9:31AM

    By Deven McKay


    Topics: i don't know why we go to church, i was impressed that mom not only knew it was origami but could also spell it, swans, bald spots, church, amway

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 2329 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    WTF? Redneck Preacher Invites Flock to Bring Guns to Church

    JUNE 27, 2009 5:42PM

    By Walter Blevins


    Topics: gun control, kentucky, ken pagano, 2nd amendment, church

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 4269 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    So I was Raised in a Cult: now what?

    APRIL 8, 2009 4:04PM

    By Heidi Hough


    Topics: adoption, true story, cult, religion, church, love, romance, mormon, polygamy, polygamist, child, violence, belief and religion, feminism, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 25 Ratings
    • 2527 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Picking your nose in church

    MARCH 12, 2009 4:22PM

    By Real Live Preacher


    Topics: church, stories about people picking their noses in church

    • Editor's Pick
    • 32 Ratings
    • 3384 Views
    • 55 Comments
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    My Son, The Pagan

    FEBRUARY 3, 2009 10:39PM

    By Scruffus


    Topics: religion, church, beliefs, children, mind your own business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1200 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Daring to Do the Wright Thing?

    DECEMBER 22, 2008 12:07AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: intolerance, tolerance, united church of christ, church, same-sex marriage, gay marriage, gay, speech, speaker, invocation, rick warren, warren, reverend jeremiah wright, jeremiah wright, reverend wright, barack obama, obama, election 2008, inauguration, politics

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