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Why charitable service can feel spiritually inadequate

I love serving at the homeless shelter through my Baha'i community, but sometimes it feels like we're just making ourselves feel good instead of addressing systemic injustice.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Individual acts of kindness confront their limitations when faced with structural problems requiring systemic change.

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