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How faith communities navigate generational change and tradition

Our small church has been hemorrhaging members since the pastor retired and we hired someone younger who preaches differently, and those of us who remain are caught between loyalty to tradition and the fear that if we don't change we'll just become a museum.

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What we've seen

The tension between honoring what was sacred and allowing what is sacred to emerge.

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