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When spiritual study groups face disagreement

Our book club has been reading spiritual texts together for three years and last month someone suggested we try something from a different tradition and half the group got uncomfortable and now we're stuck between people who want to explore more broadly and people who feel like we're losing our foundation. What started as a way to go deeper together has become a source of division.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The very openness that feeds spiritual inquiry becomes the source of conflict when community members fear losing their sacred center.

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