Our church leadership team is trying to decide whether to take a public stance on a social justice issue, and we're completely split—not just on the issue itself, but on whether a church should speak to these matters at all. The congregation is looking to us for guidance but we can barely have a civil conversation among ourselves, and I'm afraid our division is going to tear the whole community apart.
More people experience this than they realize.
Authority fractures when those called to guide have lost their shared vision of what guidance means.
“Where Are You with Pilgrimage across traditions?”
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