I am a Christian and T3 was raised in the church but no longer shares that faith. I didn't know her beliefs when I first raised the topic; at one point I compared something in my brain to a tangled string of Christmas lights and she looked blank.

Since that time she has shared that she was raised in the church, and that she gets clients who are trying to sort out what they were taught in the Black Church (her words, she is African American). She hasn't exactly said that she has left the church, but I am pretty sure that is the case.

Nonetheless, at times she suggests I use a Biblical story or an image of God. We talk about how faith motivates me. She sometimes asks questions to clarify what I believe and how that works-an example would be her asking about who pays for a mission trip and her wanting to clarify that we actually do pay to travel to other places to help people. But she is respectful about it, even when my experience clearly doesn't match her own.

I would go ahead and give it a try; if T doesn't seem helpful you can always drop the subject. From what I have read about your t, though, she will be fine with it if she says she will.