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Blind rock climbing = faith?

What are they doing to these poor kids (besides early indoctrination) down at the Tacoma Rescue Mission?! I mean, I appreciate that they help people, but why is that help always with the requirement of religion? Why are they not just selflessly helping, rather than making these kids recite scripture, proselytizing to them, and indoctrinating [...]

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Christian Belief through the Lens of Cognitive Science, part 4 of 6: The Born-Again Experience

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington.  She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. “… I prayed harder and just then I felt like everything I was saying [...]

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Christian belief through the lens of cognitive science, part 1 of 6

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington.  She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. My father died in a climbing accident when he was 59, and I was [...]

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The news of my conversion was greatly… um… exaggerated

Uh yeah, I don’t think anyone really believed that. But the change of art was nice. I do love Giotto and Tintoretto.

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