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How to support a friend who is deconstructing their faith within your spiritual community

Our close friend group has been meeting for prayer and study for three years and now one person is going through a crisis that's making them question everything and the rest of us don't know whether to try to hold them in faith or give them space to doubt and it's creating tension in how we show up for each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love sometimes means witnessing someone's spiritual unraveling without trying to stitch them back together according to your own pattern.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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