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For seven splendid years (1953-1960) I studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Someone told me that visitors to the seminary were occasionally brought around to the tutors' office, where I ...

Theologian Richard Hays has written a new book about how he has changed his mind about gay marriage. Bigstock Allow me to direct your attention to a long, thought-provoking article that appeared in ...

Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, novels are the moments where that shift happens. For ...

A few years back, I wrote a couple of pieces for this blog on how to change people’s minds, even if what they believe is categorically wrong. Cook and Lewandowsky’s (2011) debunking handbook was ...

I've been working and paying Social Security taxes since I was 16 and got my first job -- and I'm not the only one. Social Security is an earned benefit, so as soon as you start bringing in income, ...