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Scenario

When couples disagree about prayer's effectiveness during family health crises

My husband and I have been praying for our daughter's chronic illness for three years and she's not getting better and we're starting to disagree about whether we should keep believing prayer works or if we're just avoiding harder medical decisions. He says the research shows prayer helps healing but I've been reading studies that say it doesn't and now we can't even pray together anymore without this tension between us.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who once shared faith in prayer's power are now divided by conflicting interpretations of evidence while navigating ongoing suffering.

Your guide for this
Rumi
Rumi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Prayer — does it work? what the evidence shows?”

Peri

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