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  • Rid of My Disgrace: Hope and Healing For Victims of Sexual Assault

    Rid of My Disgrace is co-authored by Justin and Lindsey Holcomb. Pastor Justin is the director of The Resurgence and on staff at Mars Hill Church. He also currently a professor at RTS and was previously a professor at Emory University (where he received his Ph.D). He also previously taught in the Sociology and Religious Studies…

  • The Tipping Point and The Imago Dei

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] A couple of weeks ago I read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. I’m not entirely sure where I first heard of Gladwell, but Tim Challies gives him a solid recommendation in The Next Story so maybe that was what did it for me. Regardless, Gladwell…

  • The DSM V

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] Some of you may be familiar with the DSM-IV, or the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (I’m not sure why the last M and D are dropped in the abbreviation). Recently, a 5th edition has been put together, and the results look rather interesting.…

  • Resources for Psychological Adventures

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] You can’t actually click to look inside, but recently I’ve been working through this book as part of on-going research on this topic. The book itself is a bit dated, but it still more or less presents the major approaches to the two topics in…

  • The Myth of Neutrality in Psychological Studies

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] The idea that one can proceed neutrally with respect to a field of study has been very much in vogue, not just recently, but for probably as long as most of us can remember. Few if any people question the idea of neutrality in methodology,…

  • Hermeneutics of The Soul

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] While it was promised the next post would deal with the myth of objectivity in psychology and other realms of knowledge, this may serve as a short buffer to clarify how it is that psychology is essentially just hermeneutics. To see how it is that…

  • Psychological Hermeneutics

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] In their book Modern Psychotherapies, Stanton Jones and Richard Butman are confident they is no unifying philosophy undergirding the various approaches to counseling derived from the field of psychology (see pg 30-31ff). My question here is, “Is this an accurate assessment?” Much of what I might…

  • Defining Psychology

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] “Psychology” can be a sticky term to define. We tend to unfortunately use the word as if psychology itself were a monolithic discipline. This is unfortunately not the case at all, and as we shall see, “psychology” even in the broad sense has two radically different meanings.…

  • Adventures in Psychology

    [This is the first post in the Adventures in Psychology series] While it may seem overly adventuresome to pursue two separate, and somewhat unrelated, “adventure” series simultaneously, this subject is of course something I’ve already written extensively on (see the Change series). It is also something I am obviously passionate about, given that I hold…

  • Idolatry: Slowly Going The Way of the Buffalo

    Some of you might possibly remember an album by the band MXPX that bears the same name as this blog (minus the idolatry part). It was released back in 1998 and for me was one of the albums I learned to play guitar to. The title comes from a slang term referring to “selling out.”…