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When close friendships fracture over worldview differences

Our book club has been meeting for eight years and we've become like family, but lately every discussion turns into arguments about what's happening in the world and I can feel us losing the intimacy we built. We all want to stay connected but we're discovering we don't know how to disagree and still love each other the way we used to.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A cherished circle is learning that deep intimacy and fundamental disagreement might be incompatible, and no one knows how to preserve what they've built.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Children and religious education?”

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