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When long-held faith becomes empty ritual

Every Sunday I sit in the same pew I have occupied for twenty years and feel like I am watching a play I no longer understand but cannot leave.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gradual erosion of belief within unchanged practice creates a haunting sense of spiritual homelessness within familiar spaces.

Ideas that help explain it
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