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When your friend joins a religious community you're concerned about

My best friend from childhood has started going to this church that I think is really unhealthy but she says it saved her life and I don't know how to be supportive without feeling like I'm enabling something that scares me. We used to talk about everything and now there's this careful distance around the thing that means the most to her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The sacred space between us contracts when one person's salvation becomes the other's worry.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with The sacred in everyday life?”

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