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When faith communities fracture over the role of politics in spiritual life

Our church leadership team is split between people who want to take strong political stances and people who think the church should stay out of politics entirely, and every community issue that comes up threatens to tear us apart even though we all genuinely love this place.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The question of whether sacred community requires shared political vision often becomes the thing that destroys sacred community.

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