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When religious teachers experience private faith crises

I teach Sunday school but lately when the kids ask me if God really hears every prayer I can't bring myself to say yes because my own prayers feel like they disappear into nothing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Public spiritual authority can become a burden when personal spiritual experience no longer supports the certainty others expect.

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