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How to navigate interfaith dialogue when defensive patterns emerge

Our book club started reading spiritual texts from different traditions to broaden our perspectives but now we're stuck because one person keeps interpreting everything through their Christian lens, another person gets defensive whenever we read anything that mentions God, and the rest of us are walking on eggshells.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to encounter the sacred across traditions collides with the protective mechanisms each person has developed around their own beliefs.

Ideas that help explain it
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