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Scenario

When faith communities avoid difficult conversations about decline

Our church is hemorrhaging young families and the leadership keeps insisting it's a cultural problem while some of us think it's because we've stopped making room for real questions. We're having meetings about declining attendance but not talking about why people are walking away.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community chooses the comfort of familiar explanations over the harder work of examining whether its own rigidity drives away those it claims to love.

Your guide for this
Rumi
Rumi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Doubt as spiritual practice?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.