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When your child asks if God is real and you don't know what you believe

My eight-year-old asked me last night if God is real and I froze because I don't know what I believe anymore but I don't want to take away her innocence.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent faces the collision between their own spiritual uncertainty and their desire to protect their child's sense of wonder.

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