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When your faith community splits over pastoral transition

Our congregation's beloved pastor of twenty years just came out as transgender and half the church is rallying in support while the other half is threatening to leave and those of us in the middle are trying to hold space for everyone but feeling like we're being asked to choose sides in someone else's spiritual war.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision of personal truth and institutional faith can tear apart communities that once found unity in shared love.

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