It started like a familiar moment during a Sunday morning service during the holiday season: children stood before the congregation, ready to share what they were thankful for. But a now-viral social media clip from a Dallas church did not unfold as a comforting moment of communal joy. Instead, it exposed something tender and unsettling about how the church sometimes responds to honesty, especially when the truth comes through the fragile voice of a child.

A young girl was asked why she was thankful for her stepmother. Initially hesitating, she reached for words with the kind of courage children often need to tell the truth in front of adults. Once she finally spoke, she made it plain. Her stepmother listens to her in a way her biological mother does not. Rather than receiving her confess

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