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When siblings find faith in opposite directions

My sister and I both left the church we grew up in but for completely opposite reasons - she thinks it wasn't progressive enough and I think it lost its way trying to please everyone. Now when we visit our parents we can't even sit through a service together without the tension being obvious to everyone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Family members discover that rejecting the same tradition can lead to irreconcilable differences about what seeking truth actually means.

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