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When parents realize they haven't aligned their spiritual guidance

My teenage kids are asking hard questions about God and suffering that I don't have good answers for, and my partner and I keep contradicting each other when we try to respond. We're realizing we never really talked through our own beliefs and now we're confusing them more than helping.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The innocent questions of children expose the unexamined differences between partners, revealing the urgent need to discover what they actually believe together.

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