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When children's religious choices resurrect ancestral spiritual conflicts

My daughter wants to be baptized like her friends but my parents died thinking I was damned for leaving the faith and I do not know if this would honor them or betray them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Our offspring's spiritual decisions can reactivate unresolved tensions between our personal beliefs and the expectations of deceased family members.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ancestors in faith — the continuing relationship?”

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