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[quote=Anonymous]A little background: I am not Christian, and my husband's family is not super religious but they are Christian, yet he is pretty agnostic.

We have a one year old, and I'm realizing quickly that we do not have a community here in Northern Virginia. We have friends that we see when we make plans with them, but it requires a lot of effort and coordination, and we have no real "clique" of friends that we see consistently. We have neighbors, but none that are super close. We have no family in the area.

I'm yearning for a community. A place that we go once a week, know people, do activities with them, can find a reliable babysitter that we trust through people that we know, etc. In short, we are looking for a church environment. The problem is that both my husband and I aren't religious, yet we are spiritual (We both believe in a higher power, but we don't really believe in an organized religion). We would feel weird about attending a church and pretending to be Christian when we are not. But we really would like a church like community.

Any ideas about how we can find something like that? I know a lot of people say "mom's groups", but those aren't the same at all. Do you think we should go to a church, like a Methodist church that is a little more inclusive, and participate, regardless of the fact that we are not Christian?[/quote]

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