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When faith communities encounter transformative spiritual material

Our church book club started reading mystics and contemplatives and it's bringing up questions that feel too big and threatening for our usual discussions and half the group wants to go back to safer material while the other half feels like we're finally getting somewhere real. The pastor doesn't know what to do with us and honestly neither do we.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A faith community is discovering that deeper spiritual exploration can fracture the very foundation they thought was stable.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sufi mysticism — the inner path in Islam?”

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