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When parents disagree about children questioning faith

My teenage daughter is asking hard questions about our family's faith that I don't have good answers for, and my husband thinks I should just tell her to have faith while I think her questions are actually sacred, and we're realizing we never talked about what happens when our kids outgrow simple answers.

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Two people who share responsibility for a young person's spiritual formation discover they have different understandings of what faithful parenting requires.

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