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When faith communities divide and friendships are caught in the middle

Our religious community is splitting over some major theological and political issues and my closest friends there are ending up on different sides, and I don't know how to stay connected to people I love when we're discovering we have fundamentally different values about things that really matter.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Discovering that people you've worshipped alongside hold beliefs you find harmful creates a crisis not just of community, but of discernment about what you thought you knew about love and truth.

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