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How to navigate friendship when spiritual paths begin to diverge through new relationships

My best friend and I have been exploring spirituality together for years, moving between her Buddhist meditation practice and my Jewish study groups, but since she started dating someone who's very evangelical, she's becoming more certain about exclusive truth claims. I miss the openness we used to share and I'm not sure how to be supportive of her relationship while staying authentic to the questioning path that brought us together.

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