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When friendship groups threaten family dynamics

Our book club evolved into something more like a spiritual discussion group and now one member's husband says she's spending too much time with us and getting 'weird ideas' and she's caught between defending our friendship and keeping peace at home. The rest of us don't know whether to step back or support her more directly.

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What we've seen

A circle of seekers faces the ancient tension between loyalty to chosen community and loyalty to blood, discovering that spiritual growth sometimes comes at the cost of domestic peace.

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