Use the PowerSearch below to search by topic, or click on the day to see the stories from the past week. From her home in Del City, Okla., Johnna Ray clicks to an Internet site and opens a church door to the world. They are at the site, which is unaffiliated with any organized religion, to join in a crosscultural conversation about God. Ray primarily visits the site because it is nondenominational. Clubs or MSN's Communities.
Denominations commonly have their own chatrooms, and congregants always have talked after services.
I get to talk to other people and share what I believe, and I get to hear what they believe, but I'm more interested in sharing what I believe,'' said Ray. I think you see the next great evolution, from people being consumers of spirituality to people being creators of spirituality,'' said Rabbi Brad Hershfield, a specialist in leadership and community involvement at the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, or CLAL, in New York City. The thing I learned from Beliefnet is to widen my view of what's out there,'' said Derek Flood, an American working in computer animation who lives in Munich, Germany. Beliefnet has a no-proselytizing rule. Those who don't believe what we believe would like to see us confine our preachers to the sanctuaries,'' said Moishe Rosen, founder of Jews for Jesus.