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ABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’T Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we BEYOND HOMOPHOBIA: THE EVEN BIGGER REASON TO AVOID WORLD In a media frenzy akin to the Komen scandal, Evangelical aid organization World Vision (annual budget one billion plus)announced recently that it would allow legally married and monogamous queer Christians on its payroll. Conservative co-religionists, including Franklin Graham of Billy Graham Ministries, and Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention took to the media denouncing TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, "The Mormon Moment," the time that America's largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. Shifting sexual mores have made Mormon polygamy and sacred undergarments a matter more of PSYCHOLOGICAL HARMS OF BIBLE-BELIEVING CHRISTIANITY By Marlene Winell and Valerie Tarico “I am 30 years old and I am struggling to find sanity. Between the Christian schools, homeschooling, the Christian group home (indoctrinating work camp) and different churches in different cities, I am a psychological, emotional and spiritual mess.” --A former Evangelical If a former believer says that Christianity made her RELIGIOUS TRAUMA SYNDROME: HOW SOME ORGANIZED RELIGION At age sixteen I began what would be a four year struggle with bulimia. When the symptoms started, I turned in desperation to adults who knew more than I did about how to stop shameful behavior—my Bible study leader and a visiting youth minister. “If you askanything in
THE BIG LIE ABOUT PLAN B–WHAT YOU REALLY SHOULD BE TELLING It’s time, once and for all, to clear up the confusion about Plan B on message boards, Facebook pages, forums and comment threads. Tweet this: Plan B doesn’t cause abortion. It stops or delays ovulation. No egg, no fertilization, no pregnancy – no abortion. It’s that simple. In reality, Plan B prevents abortions because it reduces the CAN RELIGION BE AN ADDICTION? “I’ve never been happier since I quit my 30-year addiction to Jesus.” – Blogger and Christian Heretic Sandra Kee. To a medical researcher, the word addiction has a specific biological meaning. But in common vernacular, it means approximately this: the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, such as narcotics AWAYPOINT | BETWEEN AN ISLAND OF CERTAINTIES AND THEABOUTCONTACTDEAS AND OTHER IMAGININGSTRUSTING DOUBTVIDEO, AUDIOYOUTUBE CHANNEL This gallery contains 1 photo.. Of the 400+ articles and recordings by Valerie Tarico collected here, these 20 are among the most popular. The articles in this short list have appeared at a variety of online news and opinion sites, together receiving over 2 million views and tens of thousands ofABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’T Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we BEYOND HOMOPHOBIA: THE EVEN BIGGER REASON TO AVOID WORLD In a media frenzy akin to the Komen scandal, Evangelical aid organization World Vision (annual budget one billion plus)announced recently that it would allow legally married and monogamous queer Christians on its payroll. Conservative co-religionists, including Franklin Graham of Billy Graham Ministries, and Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention took to the media denouncing TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, "The Mormon Moment," the time that America's largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. Shifting sexual mores have made Mormon polygamy and sacred undergarments a matter more of PSYCHOLOGICAL HARMS OF BIBLE-BELIEVING CHRISTIANITY By Marlene Winell and Valerie Tarico “I am 30 years old and I am struggling to find sanity. Between the Christian schools, homeschooling, the Christian group home (indoctrinating work camp) and different churches in different cities, I am a psychological, emotional and spiritual mess.” --A former Evangelical If a former believer says that Christianity made her RELIGIOUS TRAUMA SYNDROME: HOW SOME ORGANIZED RELIGION At age sixteen I began what would be a four year struggle with bulimia. When the symptoms started, I turned in desperation to adults who knew more than I did about how to stop shameful behavior—my Bible study leader and a visiting youth minister. “If you askanything in
THE BIG LIE ABOUT PLAN B–WHAT YOU REALLY SHOULD BE TELLING It’s time, once and for all, to clear up the confusion about Plan B on message boards, Facebook pages, forums and comment threads. Tweet this: Plan B doesn’t cause abortion. It stops or delays ovulation. No egg, no fertilization, no pregnancy – no abortion. It’s that simple. In reality, Plan B prevents abortions because it reduces the CAN RELIGION BE AN ADDICTION? “I’ve never been happier since I quit my 30-year addiction to Jesus.” – Blogger and Christian Heretic Sandra Kee. To a medical researcher, the word addiction has a specific biological meaning. But in common vernacular, it means approximately this: the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, such as narcotics SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’T Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we RACISM IS REAL, BUT THE CONCEPT OF WHITE FRAGILITY COULD Disagreement or raw feelings in race-forward situations can have many causes, and overly-broad use of concepts like white fragility may do more harm than good to the mission of reducing racism. Elizabeth is a progressive activist who signed up for a multi-day racial equity training course. The organizers opened by telling participants—which included white, black, PSYCHOLOGICAL HARMS OF BIBLE-BELIEVING CHRISTIANITY By Marlene Winell and Valerie Tarico “I am 30 years old and I am struggling to find sanity. Between the Christian schools, homeschooling, the Christian group home (indoctrinating work camp) and different churches in different cities, I am a psychological, emotional and spiritual mess.” --A former Evangelical If a former believer says that Christianity made her WHEN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS BECOME IMMORAL Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be questionable or even immoral. The Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the rules in their WHAT CHRISTIANITY AND KINK HAVE IN COMMON Want a special someone who will bring you to your knees? One who will be totally in charge? One who will tell you that you are really, really bad and threaten you with punishments? Maybe you have a little day dream about being a captive virgin. Or maybe you prefer to fantasize about a manMY ABORTION BABY
George Tiller--physician, abortion provider, Lutheran, husband, father, grandfather--was shot and killed yesterday in the lobby of his church. He was killed after years of harassment and threats, bombing of his clinic, even being shot in both arms. And yet he continued doing what he did because he believed it was right. They say that the TEN PROOFS THAT THERE IS NO GOD. Philosophers and theologians have been quarreling for centuries over a handful of abstract arguments –ontological, cosmological, teleological, experiential . . .-- that some insist either prove or disprove the existence of God. Obviously, they don’t prove either, or the argument would be over. Mind you, I do think it’s over. The scholars have had their noses so deep MORMON CHURCH: DARK SKIN A SIGN OF GOD’S CURSE NO LONGER As of Friday, December 6, the Mormon Church has officially renounced the doctrine that brown skin is a punishment from God.. In the Book of Mormon, (not the musical but the actual sacred text) dark skin is a sign of God’s curse, while white skin is a sign of his blessing.The book tells of a conflict between two lost tribes of Israel, the Lamanites and Nephites, who journeyed to the New World THE MYTHICAL 11-YEAR-OLD SLUT WITH FIFTY BUCKS IN HER Superb informative and well-organized commentary, but it lacks one important thing: an arrow straight to the heart of Barack Obama, who has now made clear that he is determined to require any sub-15-year-old girl who has been raped by her father to obtain her father’s assistance in order to block a pregnancy from resulting. 15 BIBLE TEXTS REVEAL WHY “GOD’S OWN PARTY” KEEPS Why can’t GOP politicians trumpet their religious credentials without assaulting women? Because fundamentalist religion of all stripes has degradation of women at its core. Progressive Christians believe that the Bible is a human document, a record of humanity’s multi-millennial struggle to understand what is good and what is God and how to live in moral AWAYPOINT | BETWEEN AN ISLAND OF CERTAINTIES AND THEABOUTCONTACTDEAS AND OTHER IMAGININGSTRUSTING DOUBTVIDEO, AUDIOYOUTUBE CHANNEL I. Part 1 – Intersectionality, Critical Oppression Theory, and how Atlanta made the case for thinking bigger. Decades ago, when I was an Evangelical college student, a small book crossed my required reading list: Your God is Too Small. The contents .ABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
BEYOND HOMOPHOBIA: THE EVEN BIGGER REASON TO AVOID WORLD Beyond Homophobia: The Even Bigger Reason to Avoid World Vision. Posted on March 30, 2014 by Valerie Tarico. In a media frenzy akin to the Komen scandal, Evangelical aid organization World Vision (annual budget one billion plus) announced recently that it would allow legally married and monogamous queer Christians on its payroll. TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Twelve Beliefs the Mormon Church Might Not Want You to Know About. Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. BIDEN’S STUTTERING PATTERN THROUGH THE EYES OF A SPEECH Joe Biden’s role as president has made stuttering a topic of conversation and has brought other public figures with stuttering out of the closet. Biden’s glitches, like those of Trump, Obama and Bush before him, get shared eagerly by people who dislike their policies and cited as evidence that Mr. President is either stupid or CAN RELIGION BE AN ADDICTION? The generations that entered into religion did so to escape alcoholism and other addictions (though it wasn’t called addiction back then). Many who remained in religion developed additional addictions as well.”. Former Mormon Brandon Olson is even more emphatic: “Karl Marx said it right, ‘Religion is the opiate of the masses.’. ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Eleven Kinds of Verses Bible-Believers Like to Ignore. Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and PSYCHOLOGICAL HARMS OF BIBLE-BELIEVING CHRISTIANITY By Marlene Winell and Valerie Tarico “I am 30 years old and I am struggling to find sanity. Between the Christian schools, homeschooling, the Christian group home (indoctrinating work camp) and different churches in different cities, I am a psychological, emotional and spiritual mess.” --A former Evangelical If a former believer says that Christianity made her RELIGIOUS TRAUMA SYNDROME: HOW SOME ORGANIZED RELIGION Winell: Religious trauma syndrome (RTS) is a set of symptoms and characteristics that tend to go together and which are related to harmful experiences with religion. They are the result of two things: immersion in a controlling religion and the secondary impact of leaving a religious group.MY ABORTION BABY
My Abortion Baby. Posted on June 4, 2009 by Valerie Tarico. George Tiller–physician, abortion provider, Lutheran, husband, father, grandfather–was shot and killed yesterday in the lobby of his church. He was killed after years of harassment and threats, bombing of his clinic, even being shot in both arms. And yet he continueddoing what he
AWAYPOINT | BETWEEN AN ISLAND OF CERTAINTIES AND THEABOUTCONTACTDEAS AND OTHER IMAGININGSTRUSTING DOUBTVIDEO, AUDIOYOUTUBE CHANNEL I. Part 1 – Intersectionality, Critical Oppression Theory, and how Atlanta made the case for thinking bigger. Decades ago, when I was an Evangelical college student, a small book crossed my required reading list: Your God is Too Small. The contents .ABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
BEYOND HOMOPHOBIA: THE EVEN BIGGER REASON TO AVOID WORLD Beyond Homophobia: The Even Bigger Reason to Avoid World Vision. Posted on March 30, 2014 by Valerie Tarico. In a media frenzy akin to the Komen scandal, Evangelical aid organization World Vision (annual budget one billion plus) announced recently that it would allow legally married and monogamous queer Christians on its payroll. TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Twelve Beliefs the Mormon Church Might Not Want You to Know About. Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. BIDEN’S STUTTERING PATTERN THROUGH THE EYES OF A SPEECH Joe Biden’s role as president has made stuttering a topic of conversation and has brought other public figures with stuttering out of the closet. Biden’s glitches, like those of Trump, Obama and Bush before him, get shared eagerly by people who dislike their policies and cited as evidence that Mr. President is either stupid or CAN RELIGION BE AN ADDICTION? The generations that entered into religion did so to escape alcoholism and other addictions (though it wasn’t called addiction back then). Many who remained in religion developed additional addictions as well.”. Former Mormon Brandon Olson is even more emphatic: “Karl Marx said it right, ‘Religion is the opiate of the masses.’. ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Eleven Kinds of Verses Bible-Believers Like to Ignore. Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and PSYCHOLOGICAL HARMS OF BIBLE-BELIEVING CHRISTIANITY By Marlene Winell and Valerie Tarico “I am 30 years old and I am struggling to find sanity. Between the Christian schools, homeschooling, the Christian group home (indoctrinating work camp) and different churches in different cities, I am a psychological, emotional and spiritual mess.” --A former Evangelical If a former believer says that Christianity made her RELIGIOUS TRAUMA SYNDROME: HOW SOME ORGANIZED RELIGION Winell: Religious trauma syndrome (RTS) is a set of symptoms and characteristics that tend to go together and which are related to harmful experiences with religion. They are the result of two things: immersion in a controlling religion and the secondary impact of leaving a religious group.MY ABORTION BABY
My Abortion Baby. Posted on June 4, 2009 by Valerie Tarico. George Tiller–physician, abortion provider, Lutheran, husband, father, grandfather–was shot and killed yesterday in the lobby of his church. He was killed after years of harassment and threats, bombing of his clinic, even being shot in both arms. And yet he continueddoing what he
TEN THOUGHT PATTERNS THAT TRIP UP FORMER BIBLE BELIEVERS Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed your post and I could relate to all of it. I still remember being 16, nearly 40 years ago, and having the youth pastor tell us teens in the church about the passage in Revelation — how God would spit lukewarm Christians out of hismouth.
RACISM IS REAL, BUT THE CONCEPT OF WHITE FRAGILITY COULD Disagreement or raw feelings in race-forward situations can have many causes, and overly-broad use of concepts like white fragility may do more harm than good to the mission of reducing racism. Elizabeth is a progressive activist who signed up for a multi-day racial equity training course. The organizers opened by telling participants—which included white, black, SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’T Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WOKE I was Born Again until nearly the end of graduate school, a sincere Evangelical who went to church on Sunday and Wednesday with my family and to Thursday Bible study on my own. I dialed for converts during the “I Found It” evangelism campaign, served as a counselor at Camp Good News, and graduated from THE MYTHICAL 11-YEAR-OLD SLUT WITH FIFTY BUCKS IN HER The 11-year-old-slut fantasy is brought to us by the same people who brought us pedophile priests, Jesus Camp, Child Evangelism and mandatory vaginal probes. Perhaps instead of tweens gone wild we should be worrying about clergy gone wild. Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author ofTrusting Doubt: A
WHEN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS BECOME IMMORAL Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be questionable or even immoral. The Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the rules in their TEN PROOFS THAT THERE IS NO GOD. Ten Proofs That There is No God. Philosophers and theologians have been quarreling for centuries over a handful of abstract arguments –ontological, cosmological, teleological, experiential . . .– that some insist either prove or disprove the existence of God. Obviously, they don’t prove either, or the argument would be over. THE BIG LIE ABOUT PLAN B–WHAT YOU REALLY SHOULD BE TELLING It’s time, once and for all, to clear up the confusion about Plan B on message boards, Facebook pages, forums and comment threads. Tweet this: Plan B doesn’t cause abortion. It stops or delays ovulation. No egg, no fertilization, no pregnancy – no abortion. It’s that simple. In reality, Plan B prevents abortions because it reduces the 10 REASONS POPULAR VERSIONS OF CHRISTIAN HEAVEN WOULD BE Maybe descriptions of Hell are so horrific to keep people from thinking about how hellish popular versions of the Christian Heaven would be—even without Pat Robertson in the mix. Most Westerners are at least vaguely familiar with the popular Christian version of Heaven: pearly gates, streets of gold, winged angels and the Righteous, with their 15 BIBLE TEXTS REVEAL WHY “GOD’S OWN PARTY” KEEPS Why can’t GOP politicians trumpet their religious credentials without assaulting women? Because fundamentalist religion of all stripes has degradation of women at its core. Progressive Christians believe that the Bible is a human document, a record of humanity’s multi-millennial struggle to understand what is good and what is God and how to live in moral AWAYPOINT | BETWEEN AN ISLAND OF CERTAINTIES AND THEABOUTCONTACTDEAS AND OTHER IMAGININGSTRUSTING DOUBTVIDEO, AUDIOYOUTUBE CHANNEL I. Part 1 – Intersectionality, Critical Oppression Theory, and how Atlanta made the case for thinking bigger. Decades ago, when I was an Evangelical college student, a small book crossed my required reading list: Your God is Too Small. The contents .ABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
TEN THOUGHT PATTERNS THAT TRIP UP FORMER BIBLE BELIEVERS Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed your post and I could relate to all of it. I still remember being 16, nearly 40 years ago, and having the youth pastor tell us teens in the church about the passage in Revelation — how God would spit lukewarm Christians out of hismouth.
BEYOND HOMOPHOBIA: THE EVEN BIGGER REASON TO AVOID WORLD Beyond Homophobia: The Even Bigger Reason to Avoid World Vision. Posted on March 30, 2014 by Valerie Tarico. In a media frenzy akin to the Komen scandal, Evangelical aid organization World Vision (annual budget one billion plus) announced recently that it would allow legally married and monogamous queer Christians on its payroll. SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’T Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WOKE I was Born Again until nearly the end of graduate school, a sincere Evangelical who went to church on Sunday and Wednesday with my family and to Thursday Bible study on my own. I dialed for converts during the “I Found It” evangelism campaign, served as a counselor at Camp Good News, and graduated from TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Twelve Beliefs the Mormon Church Might Not Want You to Know About. Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. CAN RELIGION BE AN ADDICTION? The generations that entered into religion did so to escape alcoholism and other addictions (though it wasn’t called addiction back then). Many who remained in religion developed additional addictions as well.”. Former Mormon Brandon Olson is even more emphatic: “Karl Marx said it right, ‘Religion is the opiate of the masses.’. WHEN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS BECOME IMMORAL Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be questionable or even immoral. The Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the rules in their WHAT IF JESUS NEVER EXISTED? AN INTERVIEW WITH HISTORY With Easter coming, some people are debating whether the resurrection of Jesus really happened. Others are debating whether Jesus was even real. In ten years of writing for news and opinion sites, my most popular article about religion was one titled, “Five Reasons to Suspect Jesus Never Existed.” The article emerged from aconversation with
AWAYPOINT | BETWEEN AN ISLAND OF CERTAINTIES AND THEABOUTCONTACTDEAS AND OTHER IMAGININGSTRUSTING DOUBTVIDEO, AUDIOYOUTUBE CHANNEL I. Part 1 – Intersectionality, Critical Oppression Theory, and how Atlanta made the case for thinking bigger. Decades ago, when I was an Evangelical college student, a small book crossed my required reading list: Your God is Too Small. The contents .ABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
TEN THOUGHT PATTERNS THAT TRIP UP FORMER BIBLE BELIEVERS Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed your post and I could relate to all of it. I still remember being 16, nearly 40 years ago, and having the youth pastor tell us teens in the church about the passage in Revelation — how God would spit lukewarm Christians out of hismouth.
BEYOND HOMOPHOBIA: THE EVEN BIGGER REASON TO AVOID WORLD Beyond Homophobia: The Even Bigger Reason to Avoid World Vision. Posted on March 30, 2014 by Valerie Tarico. In a media frenzy akin to the Komen scandal, Evangelical aid organization World Vision (annual budget one billion plus) announced recently that it would allow legally married and monogamous queer Christians on its payroll. SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’T Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WOKE I was Born Again until nearly the end of graduate school, a sincere Evangelical who went to church on Sunday and Wednesday with my family and to Thursday Bible study on my own. I dialed for converts during the “I Found It” evangelism campaign, served as a counselor at Camp Good News, and graduated from TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Twelve Beliefs the Mormon Church Might Not Want You to Know About. Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. CAN RELIGION BE AN ADDICTION? The generations that entered into religion did so to escape alcoholism and other addictions (though it wasn’t called addiction back then). Many who remained in religion developed additional addictions as well.”. Former Mormon Brandon Olson is even more emphatic: “Karl Marx said it right, ‘Religion is the opiate of the masses.’. WHEN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS BECOME IMMORAL Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be questionable or even immoral. The Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the rules in their WHAT IF JESUS NEVER EXISTED? AN INTERVIEW WITH HISTORY With Easter coming, some people are debating whether the resurrection of Jesus really happened. Others are debating whether Jesus was even real. In ten years of writing for news and opinion sites, my most popular article about religion was one titled, “Five Reasons to Suspect Jesus Never Existed.” The article emerged from aconversation with
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Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
TEN THOUGHT PATTERNS THAT TRIP UP FORMER BIBLE BELIEVERS Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed your post and I could relate to all of it. I still remember being 16, nearly 40 years ago, and having the youth pastor tell us teens in the church about the passage in Revelation — how God would spit lukewarm Christians out of hismouth.
A DOZEN WAYS A SMALLER, OLDER POPULATION MIGHT BE AWESOME We have lots of reasons to look to a changing demographic future with curiosity and optimism. While many of us fret about unaffordable housing or traffic jams caused in part by population pressures, a trending chorus of depopulation doomsaying laments that there are too few people—or will be shortly. Underneath this lament lies somethingthat
RACISM IS REAL, BUT THE CONCEPT OF WHITE FRAGILITY COULD Disagreement or raw feelings in race-forward situations can have many causes, and overly-broad use of concepts like white fragility may do more harm than good to the mission of reducing racism. Elizabeth is a progressive activist who signed up for a multi-day racial equity training course. The organizers opened by telling participants—which included white, black, ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Eleven Kinds of Verses Bible-Believers Like to Ignore. Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and WHAT IF JESUS NEVER EXISTED? AN INTERVIEW WITH HISTORY With Easter coming, some people are debating whether the resurrection of Jesus really happened. Others are debating whether Jesus was even real. In ten years of writing for news and opinion sites, my most popular article about religion was one titled, “Five Reasons to Suspect Jesus Never Existed.” The article emerged from aconversation with
WHAT CHRISTIANITY AND KINK HAVE IN COMMON Christianity can be thought of as seeking to sublimate, or redirect, sexual passion, while kink tries to enhance it. Christianity claims to be about the end game, while kink often is about the moment. Christianity is deadly serious, while kink commonly is framed as playful. Christianity is a multi-billion dollar, multi-billion member,multi
FORMER FUNDAMENTALIST AND FATHER OF ELEVEN NOW AN An interview with former fundamentalist, Ed Suominen. Ed Suominen was raised in a small sect of Lutheran Christianity called Laestadianism. Of the 32,000+ denominations into which Christianity has fractured, his is one of the more conservative. Members believe in the literal truth of the Bible, including the creation story. They eschew sins like drinking, dancing, THE BIG LIE ABOUT PLAN B–WHAT YOU REALLY SHOULD BE TELLING It’s time, once and for all, to clear up the confusion about Plan B on message boards, Facebook pages, forums and comment threads. Tweet this: Plan B doesn’t cause abortion. It stops or delays ovulation. No egg, no fertilization, no pregnancy – no abortion. It’s that simple. In reality, Plan B prevents abortions because it reduces the THE MYTHICAL 11-YEAR-OLD SLUT WITH FIFTY BUCKS IN HER The 11-year-old-slut fantasy is brought to us by the same people who brought us pedophile priests, Jesus Camp, Child Evangelism and mandatory vaginal probes. Perhaps instead of tweens gone wild we should be worrying about clergy gone wild. Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author ofTrusting Doubt: A
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Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
TEN THOUGHT PATTERNS THAT TRIP UP FORMER BIBLE BELIEVERS Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed your post and I could relate to all of it. I still remember being 16, nearly 40 years ago, and having the youth pastor tell us teens in the church about the passage in Revelation — how God would spit lukewarm Christians out of hismouth.
JUNE | 2021 | AWAYPOINT This gallery contains 2 photos . Recent depopulation alarmism serves wealthy investors, not ordinary people. Many people assume that population growth is key to a flourishing economy. But if what you care about is the prosperity of ordinary families and individuals, that isn’t true. In his . BEYOND HOMOPHOBIA: THE EVEN BIGGER REASON TO AVOID WORLD Beyond Homophobia: The Even Bigger Reason to Avoid World Vision. Posted on March 30, 2014 by Valerie Tarico. In a media frenzy akin to the Komen scandal, Evangelical aid organization World Vision (annual budget one billion plus) announced recently that it would allow legally married and monogamous queer Christians on its payroll. SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’T Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WOKE I was Born Again until nearly the end of graduate school, a sincere Evangelical who went to church on Sunday and Wednesday with my family and to Thursday Bible study on my own. I dialed for converts during the “I Found It” evangelism campaign, served as a counselor at Camp Good News, and graduated from CAN RELIGION BE AN ADDICTION? The generations that entered into religion did so to escape alcoholism and other addictions (though it wasn’t called addiction back then). Many who remained in religion developed additional addictions as well.”. Former Mormon Brandon Olson is even more emphatic: “Karl Marx said it right, ‘Religion is the opiate of the masses.’. WHEN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS BECOME IMMORAL Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be questionable or even immoral. The Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the rules in their TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Twelve Beliefs the Mormon Church Might Not Want You to Know About. Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. AWAYPOINT | BETWEEN AN ISLAND OF CERTAINTIES AND THEABOUTCONTACTDEAS AND OTHER IMAGININGSTRUSTING DOUBTVIDEO, AUDIOYOUTUBE CHANNEL I. Part 1 – Intersectionality, Critical Oppression Theory, and how Atlanta made the case for thinking bigger. Decades ago, when I was an Evangelical college student, a small book crossed my required reading list: Your God is Too Small. The contents .ABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
TEN THOUGHT PATTERNS THAT TRIP UP FORMER BIBLE BELIEVERS Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed your post and I could relate to all of it. I still remember being 16, nearly 40 years ago, and having the youth pastor tell us teens in the church about the passage in Revelation — how God would spit lukewarm Christians out of hismouth.
JUNE | 2021 | AWAYPOINT This gallery contains 2 photos . Recent depopulation alarmism serves wealthy investors, not ordinary people. Many people assume that population growth is key to a flourishing economy. But if what you care about is the prosperity of ordinary families and individuals, that isn’t true. In his . BEYOND HOMOPHOBIA: THE EVEN BIGGER REASON TO AVOID WORLD Beyond Homophobia: The Even Bigger Reason to Avoid World Vision. Posted on March 30, 2014 by Valerie Tarico. In a media frenzy akin to the Komen scandal, Evangelical aid organization World Vision (annual budget one billion plus) announced recently that it would allow legally married and monogamous queer Christians on its payroll. SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’T Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WOKE I was Born Again until nearly the end of graduate school, a sincere Evangelical who went to church on Sunday and Wednesday with my family and to Thursday Bible study on my own. I dialed for converts during the “I Found It” evangelism campaign, served as a counselor at Camp Good News, and graduated from CAN RELIGION BE AN ADDICTION? The generations that entered into religion did so to escape alcoholism and other addictions (though it wasn’t called addiction back then). Many who remained in religion developed additional addictions as well.”. Former Mormon Brandon Olson is even more emphatic: “Karl Marx said it right, ‘Religion is the opiate of the masses.’. WHEN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS BECOME IMMORAL Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be questionable or even immoral. The Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the rules in their TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Twelve Beliefs the Mormon Church Might Not Want You to Know About. Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives.ABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
TEN THOUGHT PATTERNS THAT TRIP UP FORMER BIBLE BELIEVERS Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed your post and I could relate to all of it. I still remember being 16, nearly 40 years ago, and having the youth pastor tell us teens in the church about the passage in Revelation — how God would spit lukewarm Christians out of hismouth.
JUNE | 2021 | AWAYPOINT This gallery contains 2 photos . Recent depopulation alarmism serves wealthy investors, not ordinary people. Many people assume that population growth is key to a flourishing economy. But if what you care about is the prosperity of ordinary families and individuals, that isn’t true. In his . A DOZEN WAYS A SMALLER, OLDER POPULATION MIGHT BE AWESOME We have lots of reasons to look to a changing demographic future with curiosity and optimism. While many of us fret about unaffordable housing or traffic jams caused in part by population pressures, a trending chorus of depopulation doomsaying laments that there are too few people—or will be shortly. Underneath this lament lies somethingthat
RACISM IS REAL, BUT THE CONCEPT OF WHITE FRAGILITY COULD Disagreement or raw feelings in race-forward situations can have many causes, and overly-broad use of concepts like white fragility may do more harm than good to the mission of reducing racism. Elizabeth is a progressive activist who signed up for a multi-day racial equity training course. The organizers opened by telling participants—which included white, black, WHAT IF JESUS NEVER EXISTED? AN INTERVIEW WITH HISTORY With Easter coming, some people are debating whether the resurrection of Jesus really happened. Others are debating whether Jesus was even real. In ten years of writing for news and opinion sites, my most popular article about religion was one titled, “Five Reasons to Suspect Jesus Never Existed.” The article emerged from aconversation with
ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Eleven Kinds of Verses Bible-Believers Like to Ignore. Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and WHAT CHRISTIANITY AND KINK HAVE IN COMMON Christianity can be thought of as seeking to sublimate, or redirect, sexual passion, while kink tries to enhance it. Christianity claims to be about the end game, while kink often is about the moment. Christianity is deadly serious, while kink commonly is framed as playful. Christianity is a multi-billion dollar, multi-billion member,multi
THE BIG LIE ABOUT PLAN B–WHAT YOU REALLY SHOULD BE TELLING It’s time, once and for all, to clear up the confusion about Plan B on message boards, Facebook pages, forums and comment threads. Tweet this: Plan B doesn’t cause abortion. It stops or delays ovulation. No egg, no fertilization, no pregnancy – no abortion. It’s that simple. In reality, Plan B prevents abortions because it reduces the THE MYTHICAL 11-YEAR-OLD SLUT WITH FIFTY BUCKS IN HER The 11-year-old-slut fantasy is brought to us by the same people who brought us pedophile priests, Jesus Camp, Child Evangelism and mandatory vaginal probes. Perhaps instead of tweens gone wild we should be worrying about clergy gone wild. Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author ofTrusting Doubt: A
AWAYPOINT | BETWEEN AN ISLAND OF CERTAINTIES AND THEABOUTCONTACTDEAS AND OTHER IMAGININGSTRUSTING DOUBTVIDEO, AUDIOYOUTUBE CHANNEL Between An Island of Certainties and the Unknown Shore. This gallery contains 1 photo.. Men—especially men in positions of power—have often thought about reproduction in economic and competitive terms: More children means more workers for the field, more adherents for the church, more serfs or slaves, and more foot soldiers to help one clan or tribe or kingdom or nation win conflicts with JUNE | 2021 | AWAYPOINT 1 post published by Valerie Tarico during June 2021. This gallery contains 2 photos.. Recent depopulation alarmism serves wealthy investors, not ordinary people. NO, PROSPERITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH DON’T REQUIRE Recent depopulation alarmism serves wealthy investors, not ordinary people. Many people assume that population growth is key to a flourishing economy. But if what you care about is the prosperity of ordinary families and individuals, that isn’t true. In his influential book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Economist Thomas Piketty noted that national economic growthABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
TEN THOUGHT PATTERNS THAT TRIP UP FORMER BIBLE BELIEVERS Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed your post and I could relate to all of it. I still remember being 16, nearly 40 years ago, and having the youth pastor tell us teens in the church about the passage in Revelation — how God would spit lukewarm Christians out of hismouth.
A DOZEN WAYS A SMALLER, OLDER POPULATION MIGHT BE AWESOME We have lots of reasons to look to a changing demographic future with curiosity and optimism. While many of us fret about unaffordable housing or traffic jams caused in part by population pressures, a trending chorus of depopulation doomsaying laments that there are too few people—or will be shortly. Underneath this lament lies somethingthat
TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Twelve Beliefs the Mormon Church Might Not Want You to Know About. Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Eleven Kinds of Verses Bible-Believers Like to Ignore. Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and TEN PROOFS THAT THERE IS NO GOD. Ten Proofs That There is No God. Philosophers and theologians have been quarreling for centuries over a handful of abstract arguments –ontological, cosmological, teleological, experiential . . .– that some insist either prove or disprove the existence of God. Obviously, they don’t prove either, or the argument would be over. WHEN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS BECOME IMMORAL Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be questionable or even immoral. The Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the rules in their AWAYPOINT | BETWEEN AN ISLAND OF CERTAINTIES AND THEABOUTCONTACTDEAS AND OTHER IMAGININGSTRUSTING DOUBTVIDEO, AUDIOYOUTUBE CHANNEL Between An Island of Certainties and the Unknown Shore. This gallery contains 1 photo.. Men—especially men in positions of power—have often thought about reproduction in economic and competitive terms: More children means more workers for the field, more adherents for the church, more serfs or slaves, and more foot soldiers to help one clan or tribe or kingdom or nation win conflicts with JUNE | 2021 | AWAYPOINT 1 post published by Valerie Tarico during June 2021. This gallery contains 2 photos.. Recent depopulation alarmism serves wealthy investors, not ordinary people. NO, PROSPERITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH DON’T REQUIRE Recent depopulation alarmism serves wealthy investors, not ordinary people. Many people assume that population growth is key to a flourishing economy. But if what you care about is the prosperity of ordinary families and individuals, that isn’t true. In his influential book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Economist Thomas Piketty noted that national economic growthABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
TEN THOUGHT PATTERNS THAT TRIP UP FORMER BIBLE BELIEVERS Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed your post and I could relate to all of it. I still remember being 16, nearly 40 years ago, and having the youth pastor tell us teens in the church about the passage in Revelation — how God would spit lukewarm Christians out of hismouth.
A DOZEN WAYS A SMALLER, OLDER POPULATION MIGHT BE AWESOME We have lots of reasons to look to a changing demographic future with curiosity and optimism. While many of us fret about unaffordable housing or traffic jams caused in part by population pressures, a trending chorus of depopulation doomsaying laments that there are too few people—or will be shortly. Underneath this lament lies somethingthat
TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Twelve Beliefs the Mormon Church Might Not Want You to Know About. Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Eleven Kinds of Verses Bible-Believers Like to Ignore. Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and TEN PROOFS THAT THERE IS NO GOD. Ten Proofs That There is No God. Philosophers and theologians have been quarreling for centuries over a handful of abstract arguments –ontological, cosmological, teleological, experiential . . .– that some insist either prove or disprove the existence of God. Obviously, they don’t prove either, or the argument would be over. WHEN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS BECOME IMMORAL Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be questionable or even immoral. The Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the rules in theirABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
TEN THOUGHT PATTERNS THAT TRIP UP FORMER BIBLE BELIEVERS Thank you for writing this. I enjoyed your post and I could relate to all of it. I still remember being 16, nearly 40 years ago, and having the youth pastor tell us teens in the church about the passage in Revelation — how God would spit lukewarm Christians out of hismouth.
MAY | 2021 | AWAYPOINT This gallery contains 2 photos.. We have lots of reasons to look to a changing demographic future with curiosity and optimism. While many of us fret about unaffordable housing or traffic jams caused in part by population pressures, a trending chorus of depopulation doomsayinglaments
A DOZEN WAYS A SMALLER, OLDER POPULATION MIGHT BE AWESOME We have lots of reasons to look to a changing demographic future with curiosity and optimism. While many of us fret about unaffordable housing or traffic jams caused in part by population pressures, a trending chorus of depopulation doomsaying laments that there are too few people—or will be shortly. Underneath this lament lies somethingthat
RACISM IS REAL, BUT THE CONCEPT OF WHITE FRAGILITY COULD Disagreement or raw feelings in race-forward situations can have many causes, and overly-broad use of concepts like white fragility may do more harm than good to the mission of reducing racism. Elizabeth is a progressive activist who signed up for a multi-day racial equity training course. The organizers opened by telling participants—which included white, black, ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Eleven Kinds of Verses Bible-Believers Like to Ignore. Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and TEN PROOFS THAT THERE IS NO GOD. Ten Proofs That There is No God. Philosophers and theologians have been quarreling for centuries over a handful of abstract arguments –ontological, cosmological, teleological, experiential . . .– that some insist either prove or disprove the existence of God. Obviously, they don’t prove either, or the argument would be over. WHAT IF JESUS NEVER EXISTED? AN INTERVIEW WITH HISTORY With Easter coming, some people are debating whether the resurrection of Jesus really happened. Others are debating whether Jesus was even real. In ten years of writing for news and opinion sites, my most popular article about religion was one titled, “Five Reasons to Suspect Jesus Never Existed.” The article emerged from aconversation with
WHAT CHRISTIANITY AND KINK HAVE IN COMMON Christianity can be thought of as seeking to sublimate, or redirect, sexual passion, while kink tries to enhance it. Christianity claims to be about the end game, while kink often is about the moment. Christianity is deadly serious, while kink commonly is framed as playful. Christianity is a multi-billion dollar, multi-billion member,multi
THE MYTHICAL 11-YEAR-OLD SLUT WITH FIFTY BUCKS IN HER The 11-year-old-slut fantasy is brought to us by the same people who brought us pedophile priests, Jesus Camp, Child Evangelism and mandatory vaginal probes. Perhaps instead of tweens gone wild we should be worrying about clergy gone wild. Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author ofTrusting Doubt: A
AWAYPOINT | BETWEEN AN ISLAND OF CERTAINTIES AND THEABOUTCONTACTDEAS AND OTHER IMAGININGSTRUSTING DOUBTVIDEO, AUDIOYOUTUBE CHANNEL Between An Island of Certainties and the Unknown Shore. This gallery contains 1 photo.. Men—especially men in positions of power—have often thought about reproduction in economic and competitive terms: More children means more workers for the field, more adherents for the church, more serfs or slaves, and more foot soldiers to help one clan or tribe or kingdom or nation win conflicts withABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
BEYOND HOMOPHOBIA: THE EVEN BIGGER REASON TO AVOID WORLD Beyond Homophobia: The Even Bigger Reason to Avoid World Vision. Posted on March 30, 2014 by Valerie Tarico. In a media frenzy akin to the Komen scandal, Evangelical aid organization World Vision (annual budget one billion plus) announced recently that it would allow legally married and monogamous queer Christians on its payroll. SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’TEXAMPLE OF MAGICAL THINKINGA YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKINGEXAMPLES OF MAGICAL THINKING IN CHILDRENMAGICAL THINKING IN ADULTSMAGICAL THINKING PSYCHOLOGYMAGICAL THINKING PSYCHOLOGY DEFINITION Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we CAN BACTERIA HELP US UNDERSTAND RELIGION? PART 3: THE Part 3 in a 4-part series. Read Part 4 here.This series was abridged as a single article in The Humanist – A magazine of critical inquiry and social concern. May/June 2017 issue, p. 16-21. Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light and Deas and Other Imaginings, and the TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Twelve Beliefs the Mormon Church Might Not Want You to Know About. Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Eleven Kinds of Verses Bible-Believers Like to Ignore. Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, andMY ABORTION BABY
My Abortion Baby. Posted on June 4, 2009 by Valerie Tarico. George Tiller–physician, abortion provider, Lutheran, husband, father, grandfather–was shot and killed yesterday in the lobby of his church. He was killed after years of harassment and threats, bombing of his clinic, even being shot in both arms. And yet he continueddoing what he
RELIGIOUS TRAUMA SYNDROME: HOW SOME ORGANIZED RELIGION Winell: Religious trauma syndrome (RTS) is a set of symptoms and characteristics that tend to go together and which are related to harmful experiences with religion. They are the result of two things: immersion in a controlling religion and the secondary impact of leaving a religious group. WHEN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS BECOME IMMORAL Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be questionable or even immoral. The Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the rules in their AWAYPOINT | BETWEEN AN ISLAND OF CERTAINTIES AND THEABOUTCONTACTDEAS AND OTHER IMAGININGSTRUSTING DOUBTVIDEO, AUDIOYOUTUBE CHANNEL Between An Island of Certainties and the Unknown Shore. This gallery contains 1 photo.. Men—especially men in positions of power—have often thought about reproduction in economic and competitive terms: More children means more workers for the field, more adherents for the church, more serfs or slaves, and more foot soldiers to help one clan or tribe or kingdom or nation win conflicts withABOUT | AWAYPOINT
Greetings - I am a psychologist and writer with a passion for personal and social evolution. As a social commentator, I often tackle religious fundamentalism, gender roles, reproductive empowerment, and the intersection of these three. My two books address these topics from very different angles: Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looksat Old Beliefs in
BEYOND HOMOPHOBIA: THE EVEN BIGGER REASON TO AVOID WORLD Beyond Homophobia: The Even Bigger Reason to Avoid World Vision. Posted on March 30, 2014 by Valerie Tarico. In a media frenzy akin to the Komen scandal, Evangelical aid organization World Vision (annual budget one billion plus) announced recently that it would allow legally married and monogamous queer Christians on its payroll. SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’TEXAMPLE OF MAGICAL THINKINGA YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKINGEXAMPLES OF MAGICAL THINKING IN CHILDRENMAGICAL THINKING IN ADULTSMAGICAL THINKING PSYCHOLOGYMAGICAL THINKING PSYCHOLOGY DEFINITION Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we CAN BACTERIA HELP US UNDERSTAND RELIGION? PART 3: THE Part 3 in a 4-part series. Read Part 4 here.This series was abridged as a single article in The Humanist – A magazine of critical inquiry and social concern. May/June 2017 issue, p. 16-21. Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light and Deas and Other Imaginings, and the TWELVE BELIEFS THE MORMON CHURCH MIGHT NOT WANT YOU TO Twelve Beliefs the Mormon Church Might Not Want You to Know About. Coauthor: Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives. ELEVEN KINDS OF VERSES BIBLE-BELIEVERS LIKE TO IGNORE Eleven Kinds of Verses Bible-Believers Like to Ignore. Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God, and, in a peculiar twist of logic, they quote the Bible itself to back up their claim: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, andMY ABORTION BABY
My Abortion Baby. Posted on June 4, 2009 by Valerie Tarico. George Tiller–physician, abortion provider, Lutheran, husband, father, grandfather–was shot and killed yesterday in the lobby of his church. He was killed after years of harassment and threats, bombing of his clinic, even being shot in both arms. And yet he continueddoing what he
RELIGIOUS TRAUMA SYNDROME: HOW SOME ORGANIZED RELIGION Winell: Religious trauma syndrome (RTS) is a set of symptoms and characteristics that tend to go together and which are related to harmful experiences with religion. They are the result of two things: immersion in a controlling religion and the secondary impact of leaving a religious group. WHEN RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS BECOME IMMORAL Religious teachings that once made sense sometimes become harmful under changing conditions. That can put believers in the awkward position of defending practices—either historical or current—that are now widely perceived to be questionable or even immoral. The Abrahamic religions--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--emerged during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the rules in their JUNE | 2021 | AWAYPOINT 1 post published by Valerie Tarico during June 2021. This gallery contains 2 photos.. Recent depopulation alarmism serves wealthy investors, not ordinary people. NO, PROSPERITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH DON’T REQUIRE Recent depopulation alarmism serves wealthy investors, not ordinary people. Many people assume that population growth is key to a flourishing economy. But if what you care about is the prosperity of ordinary families and individuals, that isn’t true. In his influential book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Economist Thomas Piketty noted that national economic growth SEVEN KINDS OF MAGICAL THINKING THAT EVEN SKEPTICS CAN’T Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.—Walt Disney Part 5 of a 7-Part Series – Why People Believe in Miracles and Other Kinds of Magic (Part 4 here) Magic takes us outside of reality, bending or annihilating the laws of physics and biology. Skeptics like to believe, when we WHAT CHRISTIANITY AND KINK HAVE IN COMMON Christianity can be thought of as seeking to sublimate, or redirect, sexual passion, while kink tries to enhance it. Christianity claims to be about the end game, while kink often is about the moment. Christianity is deadly serious, while kink commonly is framed as playful. Christianity is a multi-billion dollar, multi-billion member,multi
THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WOKE I was Born Again until nearly the end of graduate school, a sincere Evangelical who went to church on Sunday and Wednesday with my family and to Thursday Bible study on my own. I dialed for converts during the “I Found It” evangelism campaign, served as a counselor at Camp Good News, and graduated from CAN RELIGION BE AN ADDICTION? The generations that entered into religion did so to escape alcoholism and other addictions (though it wasn’t called addiction back then). Many who remained in religion developed additional addictions as well.”. Former Mormon Brandon Olson is even more emphatic: “Karl Marx said it right, ‘Religion is the opiate of the masses.’. PSYCHOLOGICAL HARMS OF BIBLE-BELIEVING CHRISTIANITY By Marlene Winell and Valerie Tarico “I am 30 years old and I am struggling to find sanity. Between the Christian schools, homeschooling, the Christian group home (indoctrinating work camp) and different churches in different cities, I am a psychological, emotional and spiritual mess.” --A former Evangelical If a former believer says that Christianity made her TEN PROOFS THAT THERE IS NO GOD. Ten Proofs That There is No God. Philosophers and theologians have been quarreling for centuries over a handful of abstract arguments –ontological, cosmological, teleological, experiential . . .– that some insist either prove or disprove the existence of God. Obviously, they don’t prove either, or the argument would be over. WHAT IF JESUS NEVER EXISTED? AN INTERVIEW WITH HISTORY With Easter coming, some people are debating whether the resurrection of Jesus really happened. Others are debating whether Jesus was even real. In ten years of writing for news and opinion sites, my most popular article about religion was one titled, “Five Reasons to Suspect Jesus Never Existed.” The article emerged from aconversation with
BIRTH CONTROL AND WEIGHT GAIN: IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP Weight gain is a natural part of maturation. At age 13, many girls are menstruating and some have reached their adult height, but the average weight is 100 pounds. By age 20, they have filled out, and American women weigh on average 125-130 pounds. By age 55, the norm is closer to 165 before average weight then starts declining.AWAYPOINT
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Of the 400+ articles and recordings by Valerie Tarico collected here, these 20 are among the most popular. The articles in this short list have appeared at a variety of online news and opinion sites, together receiving over 2 million views and tens of thousands of … Continue reading → Gallery | Tagged Christianfundamentalism
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ON MOTHER’S DAY I’M GRATEFUL FOR ONE SPECIAL ABORTION PROVIDER AND A WHOLE LINE OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS WHO CAME BEFORE HER Posted on May 8, 2020by Valerie Tarico
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Raising two kind, curious daughters with my husband, Brian, has been the most meaningful, wonder-filled adventure of my life. That is why, on Mother’s Day, I find myself feeling profoundly grateful to the healthcare providers who made possible these twenty-five … Continuereading →
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BELIEVE WOMEN IS THE BEGINNING OF A PROCESS, NOT THE END Posted on May 4, 2020by Valerie Tarico
Followed blindly, ‘believe women’ diminishes both women and men—and our quest for justice. Many women who have been part of the #MeToo movement, including public leaders, continue to support Joe Biden despite Tara Reade’s accusations. Trump believers and some diehard … Continue reading →Gallery | Tagged
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A Seattle scientist and entrepreneur named Johnny Stine proclaimed on Facebook that he had developed a vaccine that made him immune to COVID-19. He offered to sell doses to 100 other people for $400 a pop. The State Attorney General … Continue reading → Gallery | Tagged Covid 19, healing
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Disinterest in problems/solutions/aspirations that don’t have sharp tribal boundaries around them, is a barrier to us seizing the present moment. Through much of American history, progressives have fought for tangible, physical wellbeing. We have fought for food safety, work safety, … Continue reading → Gallery | 3 Comments WHAT THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM CROWD REALLY WANTS — AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR KATHERINE STEWART Posted on April 25, 2020by Valerie Tarico
Christian nationalism invents a mythical history where America’s founders were all essentially Bible-thumpers intent on establishing a so-called Christian nation. Investigative journalist Katherine Stewart didn’t think about fundamentalist Christianity much until Evangelicals targeted her daughter’s public elementary school as their … Continue reading → Gallery | Tagged Child Evangelism Fellowship,
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VALERIE TARICO ON FREETHOUGHT MATTERS TELEVISION WITH DAN BARKER AND ANNIE LAURIE GAYLOR Posted on April 17, 2020by Valerie Tarico
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Freethought Matters Television – Trusting Doubt (27 min video) Youtube, Freedom From Religion Foundation Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker interview Valerie Tarico about her journey out of Evangelical Christianity, how the Bible denigrates women, religious trauma, raising good kids … Continue reading → Gallery | Tagged AnnieLaurie Gaylor ,
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WHY CONSERVATIVE RELIGION HAS BECOME A DISEASE VECTOR Posted on April 13, 2020by Valerie Tarico
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Religious believers are spreading coronavirus through the same mechanisms that spread religion itself. What is it about religion and COVID-19? Across the U.S., conservative Christian leaders have fought to be exempted from public health limits on social gatherings. In state … Continue reading →Gallery | Tagged
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