Are you active?
I find being active at church (meaning actually going on Sunday) is very difficult for us. There are just so many things to do and church takes at least 2.5 hours with driving time. 3.5 if we were to put our daughter into Sunday School.
cantaloupe / 6059 posts
Yes, we are Christians. We attend church on Sundays and I am active in Bible studies throughout the week - I currently go to three, two during the weekdays and one at night with the entire family.
Church only takes about 2 hours total for us on Sunday though and we're home by 11:45 which works well for naps. It's a lot with young kids but fortunately out church's service schedule makes it doable for us.
watermelon / 14467 posts
I'm a Christian and I do attend church most Sundays. I attend a home church (a split from the church I grew up in) and while it is difficult (4 hours on Sunday with drive time), I feel much better when I go.
coconut / 8472 posts
I don't have one :). I think religion is extraneous.
I grew up with one parent a lapsed Jew, and one a lapsed Catholic. We didn't follow any religion and only celebrated a few holidays, usually in secular ways. We never attended services as a family.
DH is also a lapsed Catholic and interested in looking into the Unitarian church. I can take it or leave it, it's not really something that's necessary in my life or I feel is necessary to our DS either.
pomelo / 5129 posts
I am a struggling Catholic (struggling in the sense that I know Church teachings are right, but I'm not in a place to accept that right now...not that I don't believe the teachings in the first place).
There are probably 5 churches within five miles of our house, so it doesn't take much more than the hour of service to go to church. But the struggle for me recently is being surrounded by babies and pregnant people.
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
I am not. I grew up born again Christian and went to Methodist churches in adult hood, before deciding I didn't believe in any of it.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
Science and finance, lol. I haven't been inside a church in at least 10 years of my own will, but I have attended events for others.
I was raised Catholic, but I just can not get past the recent scandal concerning child abuse, the fact that divorced people and homosexuals are basically shunned and that women are not allowed to become priests.
GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts
None. I was raised Catholic and grew up going to mass with my mom every Sunday from birth through high school, though.
grapefruit / 4903 posts
Catholic. We are active and involved. We attend weekly Mass with the kids and are relatively well-known diocesan marriage prep speakers. I was a parish wedding coordinator until we moved recently, and DH is a lector. We also participate in various Catholic social justice efforts.
pomelo / 5607 posts
I'm atheist, but I've considered attending a UU church. I'd like to have the community, and it might be good for LO as she gets older. But I can't really see getting up and dragging her out. Maybe once she's older, but I don't think DH will agree.
cantaloupe / 6131 posts
Protestant/Christian. Active members of our church and until recently hosted a weekly Bible study at our house.
pomegranate / 3392 posts
We're atheists. DH from a Catholic background and me from a Muslim background.
apricot / 443 posts
I was raised Buddhist but I find it's more of a worldview/lifestyle than a religion. I don't go to a temple but I did get blessed by a priest every year when we visited family. For me it mostly means putting out into the world what you expect to get back, and finding balance in all aspects of your life.
I've known a couple Quakers/Friends (not sure what they call themselves?) and that's probably the closest thing to a church/religious service that I'm interested in attending.
pomegranate / 3565 posts
DH and I are both Catholic - went to church every Sunday and went to catholic school from K - 12. Though I don't go to church every Sunday now. It's just so hard with my 18 month old. I'm not proud of that but it just how it is. When I go with them I can barely get anything out of the mass.
persimmon / 1495 posts
I'm culturally Jewish and agnostic but mostly we just do a few main Jewish holidays a year with my parents (who are very involved in their synogogue). DH is atheist and would prefer no religion at all, but grew up Catholic. His immediate family is non religious and we only do a secular Christmas with them.
clementine / 778 posts
Catholic, but not active. I go a few times a year (Christmas, Easter, Ash Wednesday, and a few random other times). Once DS is old enough for Sunday School, I'll probably go regularly. DH is a Buddhist, and we go to the temple even less.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
We're atheists, although I don't particularly like defining myself with the word itself. I'd say I'm agnostic but that's really not correct.
I was raised very Southern Baptist (my granddaddy and my father were both ministers, and I went to church 3x a week), and it's been a very long, painful road for me to get from that to where I am now. I didn't wake up one morning and decide god didn't exist in the way I had always fully believed. I've shed more tears than I care to remember over how torn up I was about it. Even now, when I just try not to think about it, I don't like the word atheist because there's still some (admittedly now very small) part of me that wants desperately to believe (especially this time of year), and part of me that longs for the community. (Like @Torchwood:, I've thought about going to a UU church, and D would go along with it to make me happy, even though he's a very stalwart atheist, with no qualms about it, and has been his entire life).
pomelo / 5678 posts
@tofuwad: yeah, there aren't really "Buddhists," just people on the way! 
I think of it as a practice/ psychology, a way.
nectarine / 2115 posts
We are Christian. Our backgrounds are Church of Christ and Presbyterian (PCUSA). We are currently members of a United Church of Christ. We struggle to get there every week, but are definitely practicing Christians and are raising our daughter (and soon to be son) in the church.
Edited to add: we consider ourselves non-denominational.
honeydew / 7504 posts
I grew up pretty much without a religion. We sometimes went to a Lutheran church, mostly when we were visting my grandparents or on holidays when I got older. Hubs grew up Catholic, going every Sunday, attending CCD, and was an alter boy.
We have been trying (very lazily) to find a church now that we've moved to our likely forever home. I refuse to join a Catholic Church, which Hubs is ok with. I'm having a hard time reconciling my beliefs (or lack thereof) with going to church, so I'm struggling with finding something that fits for me. Hubs is understanding of this, and it is very difficult for us to make it to church on a regular basis, so we're not pushing it right now. Maybe once the kids are older and their friends are in youth groups, we'll reconsider.
grapefruit / 4089 posts
I'm not religious. I guess I consider myself a mash up of Buddhist - agnostic - spiritual.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
Raised Jewish and heavily involved in the Jewish community from birth - college.
Post-college has been a different story. I've found it very difficult to find a good Jewish community where we live.
I strongly desire a spiritual home, so we found a Methodist church and attend frequently (service, Sunday school, and their social activities). It does the job for now, and I'm happy finding a group to gather with, but it isn't perfect, since I wouldn't call myself a Christian. Either way, I think we are all worshiping the same higher power.
apricot / 490 posts
A Catholic who goes to an Episcopal Church but is at heart a Unitarian.
pear / 1812 posts
Christian, specifically Baptist. DH is Jewish. We don't go to services because of my work schedule but we do go to a Church Group one evening a week.
honeydew / 7230 posts
We're atheists. I grew up a sort of casual Catholic and DH grew up Methodist.
cherry / 206 posts
christian - baptist to be specific but I feel that is more about the relationship than the denomination 
We attend church on Sundays. I love Sundays so much - need that time to hit refresh every week!
pear / 1770 posts
I was raised Catholic and DH Episcopalian. I'm now an atheist, he's agnostic, and we just became members of a UU church.
pomegranate / 3973 posts
Catholic, but not a very good one. I attend mass several times a year, and our kids will be in CCD and complete the sacraments. DH is not religious at all, but supports mine.
apricot / 287 posts
Christian, we go to church on Sunday and do a couple Bible Studies. I really enjoy going to church and having some communty through it.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
Jesus lover!
I grew up Methodist and dh grew up Catholic, we're currently attending a Catholic church
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