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David Ker<\/a> seemed troubled that the Beliefnet Belief-O-Matic quiz<\/a> he took categorized him as a Liberal Christian. David should be pleased, and perhaps help me find my way back to the true fold. The same quiz thinks I\u2019m a Neo-Pagan! At least if that one doesn\u2019t appeal to me, I have liberal Quaker and Reform Judaism to fall back on as close second and third options.<\/p>\n

In other news, Michael Bird<\/a> has shared an interesting piece on why professors blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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David Ker seemed troubled that the Beliefnet Belief-O-Matic quiz he took categorized him as a Liberal Christian. David should be pleased, and perhaps help me find my way back to the true fold. The same quiz thinks I\u2019m a Neo-Pagan! At least if that one doesn\u2019t appeal to me, I have liberal Quaker and Reform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nNeo-Pagan Pleads With Liberal Christian To Help Him Find His Way<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"David Ker seemed troubled that the Beliefnet Belief-O-Matic quiz he took categorized him as a Liberal Christian. 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