Listener Questions: Navigating Faith Shifts in Marriage and Relationships

Learning How to See with Brian McLaren

Center for Action and Contemplation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Have your spiritual views impacted your romantic relationships? In the next episode of our listener questions series, Brian and the team examine how our faith often impacts our relationships. Together, they respond to listener questions from a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help the listeners understand how to navigate the challenges these situations can bring. Today’s conversation sensitively explores these complex dynamics in intimate relationships. Resources: The transcript for this episode can be found here.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone. We're really glad you're back with us for this special episode of Learning
0:05.9	How to See Season 4. We are looking at the amazing collection of questions that came in over this season.
0:15.2	And we have some questions we'd like to begin with today that focus on personal relationships.
0:21.6	What happens when we sense ourselves growing in some ways in a certain direction that seems to put us more, make us more distant,
0:33.6	or increase levels of tension with people close to us, And sometimes it's people as close as our spouse.
0:42.2	And I'm very happy. I'm joined once again by my friend and colleague G.G. Ross from the
0:48.1	Living School and Dawson Allen, also from the CAC and Michael Petro from the CAC and just amazing conversation partners.
0:59.7	Glad you're here.
1:00.9	And I wonder, Gigi, if you could start by reading us a letter from someone asking about their marriage.
1:09.1	Sure.
1:10.7	It reads, hello. thank you for these helpful podcasts.
1:16.7	My questions after listening to renounce and announce are about our long-time marriage relationships
1:22.4	when one spouse goes through a major shift in thinking, while their partner is doubling down
1:28.1	on the old beliefs.
1:30.3	Encouragement for the partner who is in the process of renouncing and announcing with friends,
1:35.0	but who is not sure what to do about the marriage, where one partner thinks the other
1:38.7	is now spiritually lost, when one partner's belief system cannot include differing beliefs. Here I'm speaking not just of young marriages, but long-time marriages, like 30-plus years,
1:50.0	where so very much of life has been shared together.
1:53.0	To call it complicated is an understatement.
1:56.0	Separation or divorce may not seem like a solution.
1:59.0	In addition to the primary relationship, there are perhaps many extended family members,
2:05.3	young adult children, grandchildren, all impacted.
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