Our congregation hired a new pastor whose approach to scripture and social issues is dividing us right down the middle and the church council meetings have become battlegrounds where people who used to worship together in peace can barely be civil. We're supposed to be making decisions together but we can't even agree on what we're called to be as a community.
More people experience this than they realize.
A faith community is discovering that their unity was built on assumptions that no longer hold, and must choose between comfortable division and difficult integration.
“Where Are You with Spiritual-but-not-religious — what it actually means?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.