I’m Not Asking For Perfection
by Living Liminal cross posted from her blog Living Liminal I’ve had many conversations over the last 2 or 3 years that revolved around my experience of abuse in the church and my subsequent...
View ArticleMemories of My Own Cognitive Dissonance: Gothard’s Doctrine of Grace as an...
by Cindy Kunsman cross posted from Under Much Grace originally posted in 2010 In so many words (!), I’ve already shared what cognitive dissonance felt like after some exit counseling and realizing that...
View ArticleQuoting Quiverfull: Raising Boys Equal Messy House?
by Nancy Campbell from Above Rubies – Mother’s Boys Editor’s note: Welcome to another episode of ‘Cognitive Dissonance with Nancy Campbell’. Remember all that recent lecturing and hectoring by Nancy...
View ArticleQuoting Quiverfull: Simple Living Only Godly?
by Lori Alexander from The Transformed Wife – Do You Have Godly Conversation? Editor’s note: Lori is straying very far into Nancy Campbell’s territory – she’s making incorrect word definitions to fit...
View ArticleQuoting Quiverfull: Want to Get Married Then Don’t Judge Men?
by Debi Pearl of No Greater Joy – Do You Want to Get Married? Editor’s note: Judgmental girls don’t get married? This is news to me. Debi Pearl calling out other people for being judgmental and...
View ArticleQuoting Quiverfull: Biblical Gender Roles is Racist? *Insert Eye Roll Here*
by Larry Solomon from Biblical Gender Roles – Is Self-Segregation a Sin in the Bible? Editor’s note: Larry claims not to be a racist, but turns around and claims it’s okay to self-segregate, explaining...
View ArticleConsistency’s Captive
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson By Cindy Kunsman It helps us to understand how cognitive biases...
View ArticleContemplating Cognitive Dissonance
By Cindy Kunsman If we seek to gain more self-control when we experience cognitive dissonance, we need to understand how we respond to it. Research in psychology and neuroscience continues to validate...
View ArticleBiases That Preserve Our Comfort Zone
by Cindy Kunsman Continuing the ongoing discussion of cognitive bias, explaining a puzzle piece as to why we humans cling so tightly to belief systems like Quiverfull and more. Today, let’s recap what...
View ArticleIs Debi Pearl an Enabler?
Over the past few days I’ve been going back to Michael and Debi Pearl’s No Greater Joy website to reread all the articles about brain grooving Debi wrote leading up to her idea of a book on bad brains....
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