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.
The Jesuits have a saying sometimes attributed to Francis Xavier, “Give me the child until [...]
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How Beliefs Resist Change
End Times: A Set of Prophecies or a Set of Hallucinations?
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.
Real Christians are going to disappear abruptly someday soon. The world is going to [...]
Christian Belief through the Lens of Cognitive Science, part 5: How Viral Ideas Hook Us
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.
Did you know that Temple Baptist Church was built on land that sold for [...]
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 was [...]
I know because I know: Christian belief through the lens of cognitive science, part 3 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.
On a warm afternoon in June, two men have appointments with a psychiatrist. The first [...]
Church attendance and torture: what’s the connection?
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.
The circles I run in include a fair number of recovering fundies — people who [...]
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 in [...]
Be good for goodness sake
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.
For years, atheists, agnostics, and other freethinkers have been saying that you don’t need a [...]
If the Bible were law, would you get the death penalty?
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.
This week the Supreme Court declined to review a Texas murder case in which a [...]
Does evangelical giving do the world good?
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.
Paid “friendship missionaries” on the University of Arizona campus scan for lonely foreign students, who [...]