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  1. Karolina

    help me find a community

    By liberal Islam do you mean like the Sufis?? Hmmm.
  2. Karolina

    help me find a community

    My mother had been telling me this for years! But I seriously don't think it's necessary to reinvent the wheel. I see within Christianity a new split every time someone disagrees with something. I don't want to contribute to the chaos. Lol
  3. Karolina

    help me find a community

    Based on the liberal, not-in-union-with-Rome Catholic churches I've read about and visited, they're still pretty clearly trinitarian.
  4. Karolina

    help me find a community

    I keep being given the advice to check out Unitarian Universalists, but the main objection I have is that I want to worship God with others there to worship God. It sounds like UU may tolerate my theism, but can their services really be said to be corporal worship of the One God, if atheists...
  5. Karolina

    head coverings

    Greetings. I'm not Jewish but I am exploring. We recently made plans to go to Shabbat service at a local synagogue and were told that boys and men must wear the kippa while in the building, and that girls and women can also. My question is, are there alternatives to the kippa for either males...
  6. Karolina

    divorce initiated by women (reposted from Reform DIR)

    I am perplexed by what I have read about divorce within Judaism. Even in Reform Judaism, which has female rabbis, it seems that women are still not allowed to initiate a Jewish divorce, but at best, may try to convince the jewish court to insist that the husband initiate it. I'm thinking here...
  7. Karolina

    conflicted about strict monotheism (vs trinitarianism)

    This is what I need to come to terms with indeed. I have tried UU but as you say, there's a hodgepodge of beliefs, and while I enjoy interreligious dialogue, I find it difficult to worship with those who are not in agreement with me as to Whom we are worshiping, or how we ought to worship God...
  8. Karolina

    What Religion Have You Been Before?

    This was around the time the Episcopalians ordained their first openly gay bishop, and the Anglicans in the US split away from the Episcopalians over this. So while they used to be one and the same, a lot of denominations seem to be splitting in half nowadays over LGBTQ issues. It's never...
  9. Karolina

    Jesuit parish?

    Is there such a thing? I know Jesuits are often found on college campuses, but are there "regular" churches run by Jesuit priests? Or do I need to worship on campus in order to worship with the Jesuits?
  10. Karolina

    finding a faith community

    I have thought that I need to worship with Jesuits. A lot of people in my otherwise very friendly parish don't have warm thoughts about Jesuits, which of course lets me know what they think about my actual beliefs. Hmm. You actually gave me a fantastic idea... Thank you!
  11. Karolina

    What Religion Have You Been Before?

    Brought up culturally Catholic. Identified as Neo-Pagan for 2 years in my early 20s. Worshiped with Quakers for some time. Anglican church that I thought was Episcopalian but later I found out they purposely didn't update their label "to help people find the right church" said the pastor. I...
  12. Karolina

    divorce initiated by women

    Thanks. I find the whole idea of "illegitimacy" offensive to children who did nothing to deserve that label. I'm assuming it has to do with the peoplehood of the Jews and needing to know if one is ethnically Jewish since, if not, a valid conversion would be required. But illegitamacy of...
  13. Karolina

    Thanks! What did I write? lol. I looked in my book for spelling but I guess I didn't think...

    Thanks! What did I write? lol. I looked in my book for spelling but I guess I didn't think about singular/plural distinctions. My bad :)
  14. Karolina

    finding a faith community

    For those of you who feel it is important to worship God with like-minded people, a) why? and b) how much compromising are you willing to do to have that? I've been a life-long seeker, settling several times in the faith of my upbringing - Catholicism. Most recently I tried very hard to...
  15. Karolina

    Noahide or convert?

    Thank you for clarifying. Intellectually speaking, I too think I should be fine with UU. But I've been to UU services and find them emotionally unfulfilling. There are people from all walks of life there, including non-theists, pantheists, polytheists, etc. When I think of a faith community...
  16. Karolina

    Noahide or convert?

    I'm sorry, I thought I could ask questions about Reform Judaism here. Is this not the case? (Yes, I'm a little slow, lol.)
  17. Karolina

    conflicted about strict monotheism (vs trinitarianism)

    May I ask if you worship G-d in community or just on your own? Do you worship in synagogue with Jews? I'm uncertain of what being a Noahide really looks like as far as belonging to a community of like-minded believers, since I've not found any Noahide communities...
  18. Karolina

    conflicted about strict monotheism (vs trinitarianism)

    Thanks for your attempt at clarifying the difference between polytheism and trinitarianism. That said, I don't feel any closer to a conviction in favor of trinitarianism. Rather, it feels like what it must feel having multiple personalities, that's the best way I can explain it. I'm told to...
  19. Karolina

    conflicted about strict monotheism (vs trinitarianism)

    Honestly? The trinity has always been something I either tried to explain in my own way, or ignored as best I could. In the past, I've explored various non-trinitarian (and non-Christian) belief systems, starting some twenty years ago I would say. Most recently, though, I spent the last three...
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