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When faith communities split along generational lines

Our mosque community is quietly fracturing along generational lines with the older members feeling like the younger ones don't respect tradition and the younger ones feeling like their questions aren't welcome. Sunday dinners at the community center have become tense affairs where people sit with their own age groups and shoot looks across the room.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The same tradition that should unite generations becomes the ground where old wisdom and new questioning wage war.

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