{"id":46,"date":"2007-11-19T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2007\/11\/this-weeks-hot-discussions-2.html"},"modified":"2007-11-19T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:12:46","slug":"this-weeks-hot-discussions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/communitynews\/2007\/11\/this-weeks-hot-discussions-2.html","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s Hot Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do You Believe in Ghosts?<\/a>
\n“Are ghosts, spirits of the dead, actual being\/things\/entities or are they a product of wishful thinking?” – innerpoint<\/strong>
\nAbortion Isn’t A Religious Issue<\/a>
\n“I heard the author Garry Wills on NPR’s Talk of the Nation on Monday talking about why abortion isn’t a religious issue. I’d always considered it a religious issue, but he made some interesting points.” – newsjunkie<\/strong>
\nWorkplace Spirituality<\/a>
\n“I’m interested to hear from others what having spirituality in the workplace would ‘look’ like to them?” – lorie11<\/strong>
\nBeing Unhappily Single<\/a>
\n“I am not sure about the whole soulmate business. On one hand, I doubt the concept but on the other, I have seen relationships that have a spiritual component or a compatibility so profound that they do seem “extraordinary” in some form or fashion.” – appy20 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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