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The Internet Monk interviews Dr. Valerie Tarico

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.

What’s the point?
1. Evangelicals are constantly mischaracterizing non-theists. We need to listen and not preach.
2. [...]

How Beliefs Resist Change

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 [...]

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 [...]