Social Science’s False Foundation

October 14, 2021   |  

Will Gervais is a senior lecturer in psychology at Brunel University London. He and some of his colleagues conducted a study recently to assess “the degree to which people hold supernatural beliefs.” They were trying to measure how religion works in human societies. To conduct their research, they surveyed a…
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Discipleship Training – The Church’s Stepchild

October 12, 2021   |  

Surely you are familiar with the “Cinderella” fairy-tale. In that story, Cinderella goes to live with her evil stepmother and her three evil stepsisters. Since she is not part of the “real” family, they all treat her very badly. It seems that back in the late 1600s when the story…
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What’s This “White Christian Nationalism” Thing?

October 10, 2021   |  

An all out push is being made by certain factions to paint Christian evangelicals as racist bigots. The terminology being used to make that case is “White Christian Nationalists.” To these detractors, anyone who believes in traditional Christian values falls into this category – whether they are white and Christian…
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Modern Sex Ed

September 17, 2021   |  

Justine Ang Fonte is a self described sex-positive educator. She has been responsible for developing sex education curriculum for students from Kindergarten through 12th grade. Some of her special trainings include such topics as pornography literacy and consent. Her stated goal is to teach healthy sexuality, and she does that…
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Trust the Kids and Don’t Tell the Parents

September 9, 2021   |  

There is a movement in certain sectors to keep parents of school children from knowing what the kids are being taught, and hiding other kinds of things from them, as well. For instance, during the pandemic, kids were being taught online and there were some teachers who tried to prevent…
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