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How interfaith families navigate conflicting definitions of faith

Our interfaith family is falling apart because my spouse and I can't agree on what we're actually passing down to our kids when we talk about faith. I was raised Christian, they were raised Buddhist, and when we try to explain faith to our children, we realize we might be talking about completely different things - like we're using the same word for experiences that don't even overlap.

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The couple is discovering that their different traditions may offer incompatible understandings of what faith itself means.

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“Where Are You with What is faith — a cross-traditional definition?”

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