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When religious identity and human reality collide

I'm a pastor's daughter who's pregnant and unmarried and I don't know if I'm more afraid of disappointing God or disappointing my father.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Living within religious systems while experiencing human complexity reveals the gap between idealized teachings and embodied existence.

Ideas that help explain it
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