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When religious professionals lose their belief

I'm a Methodist minister who's losing her faith but I have a mortgage and a congregation depending on me and I don't know how long I can fake it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Spiritual leadership roles can become prisons when faith disappears but practical responsibilities remain, forcing performed devotion.

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