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How to navigate family gatherings when faith divides you

Our family has always gathered for holidays but since my brother found religion and I lost mine, these gatherings have become minefields where we're all performing normalcy while fundamental differences about meaning and morality sit unspoken at every meal. We love each other but we don't know how to be together authentically anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family is struggling to maintain authentic connection across a growing chasm of different beliefs about what gives life meaning.

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