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When family crisis triggers shared spiritual questioning

My adult children and I are all dealing with the fact that my divorce has shattered not just our family structure but also our shared faith tradition that was so tied to marriage and family values. We're each questioning everything we believed about commitment and meaning and God, but we're doing it separately and the silence between us about it is making everything harder.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family is learning that broken certainties can either isolate or deepen connection, depending on whether they're willing to question together.

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“Where Are You with Religious community and its discontents?”

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