In 2000, shaner, aka Sandy, lost her youngest son, 24-year-old Shane. A devout Catholic, she joined Beliefnet as a way to cope with her loss. Even her user name was chosen to honor her son. She started this prayer circle for all bereaved parents, and the prayer circle became one of the most popular in…

Have you explored any of Beliefnet’s member journals? Journals, like blogs, are where individual Beliefnet members can write about whatever they’re interested in. Here are a couple of the journals that have caught our eye recently: Wrenblue’s Journal Wrenblue is a Buddhist and a guitar player. She takes her guitar into hospitals and plays for…

Meet Spiritalk. She has been a Beliefnet member since 1999, which is the year our site launched. In her offline life, she’s a minister who lives in Etobicoke, Ontario. On her Beliefnet profile page, she says, “I am an Ordained Minister in Modern Spiritualism and as such teach and encourage all students of life to…

Every week on Beliefnet we spotlight someone from our community who has made waves, helped and inspired others, or done something new. This week, it wasn’t difficult to choose someone–we had gotten several emails urging us to highlight RangerKen. He’s a veteran of 30 years in the army who married a fellow servicemember and settled…

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