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More Resources for a Deeply Formed Spiritual Life

Kutter Callaway

The Cognitive Sciences and Belief: Maturationally Natural Capacities

In the third of nine videos on “The Cognitive Sciences and Belief,” Kutter Callaway explains the distinction between maturationally natural capacities and practiced naturalness.

Kutter Callaway

The Cognitive Sciences and Belief: Dual Process Cognition

In the fourth of nine videos on “The Cognitive Sciences and Belief,” Kutter Callaway highlights two systems of thought that form our religious beliefs.

Kutter Callaway

The Cognitive Sciences and Belief: Reflective and Non-reflective Beliefs

In the fifth of nine videos on “The Cognitive Sciences and Belief,” Kutter Callaway examines two kinds of belief related to our spiritual and religious thinking.

Kutter Callaway

The Cognitive Sciences and Belief: Non-reflective Beliefs As the Default

In the sixth of nine videos on “The Cognitive Sciences and Belief,” Kutter Callaway explores the ways reflective and non-reflective beliefs are interrelated.

Kutter Callaway

The Cognitive Sciences and Belief: None of Us Are Purely Rational Creatures

In the seventh of nine videos on “The Cognitive Sciences and Belief,” Kutter Callaway talks about the common frustrations we might have about wanting to change people’s behaviors and reflects on finding ways to tap into people’s intuitive belief systems.

Kutter Callaway

The Cognitive Sciences and Belief: Counterintuitive Teaching

In the eighth of nine videos on “The Cognitive Sciences and Belief,” Kutter Callaway encourages those who teach or lead to distinguish between people’s different levels of belief in order to best walk alongside them.

Kutter Callaway

The Cognitive Sciences and Belief: Christian Ritual As Scaffolding

In the last of nine videos on “The Cognitive Sciences and Belief,” Kutter Callaway summarizes how understanding the cognitive sciences in relation to our faith helps ministry leaders in areas of teaching and discipleship.

Pamela Ebstyne King

The Science of Thriving: Saved For Something, Not Just From Something

In the first of seven videos on “The Science of Thriving,” Pamela Ebstyne King shares how the psychological sciences help us understand our narratives and identities—and how to thrive in them.

Pamela Ebstyne King

The Science of Thriving: Thriving As Engaging in the World, Others, and God

In the second of seven videos on “The Science of Thriving,” Pamela Ebstyne King reflects on the Christian’s participation in God’s ongoing work in the world.

Pamela Ebstyne King

The Science of Thriving: Relational Developmental Systems Theory

In the third of seven videos on “The Science of Thriving,” Pamela Ebstyne King explains how humans develop in relationship to the contexts we inhabit.

Pamela Ebstyne King

The Science of Thriving: Developmental Systems in Ministry

In the fourth of seven videos on “The Science of Thriving,” Pamela Ebstyne King shares how understanding developmental systems for different groups helps us care more effectively for those we serve.

Pamela Ebstyne King

The Science of Thriving: Emotion Regulation

In the fifth of seven videos on “The Science of Thriving,” Pamela Ebstyne King talks about practices that assist in emotional regulation—and about how such regulation is important for us as we help others.

Pamela Ebstyne King

The Science of Thriving: Bridging the Nature-Niche Gap

In the sixth of seven videos on “The Science of Thriving,” Pamela Ebstyne King describes the constant gap between our human capacities and the world around us, as well as how we bridge these gaps with our capacities to learn and adapt.

Pamela Ebstyne King

The Science of Thriving: Optimal Development

In the last of seven videos on “The Science of Thriving,” Pamela Ebstyne King reflects on how the psychological sciences help us reach the ends that theology and faith identify.

Warren Brown

Complex Dynamical Systems: The Neuroscience of Human Personhood

In the first of six videos on “Complex Dynamical Systems,” Warren S. Brown introduces how neuroscience helps us have an embodied understanding of the nature of persons.

Warren Brown

Complex Dynamical Systems: Persons As Complex, Relational Systems

In the second of six videos on “Complex Dynamical Systems,” Warren S. Brown describes people as complex systems that are organized in deep relationality.

Warren Brown

Complex Dynamical Systems: Embodiment and Social Histories

In the third of six videos on “Complex Dynamical Systems,” Warren S. Brown shares about how persons’ lives are built through continuous reorganizing and adapting in the face of new situations.

Warren Brown

Complex Dynamical Systems: Catastrophe As Regeneration

In the fourth of six videos on “Complex Dynamical Systems,” Warren S. Brown explains how certain catastrophes cause major reorganizations of ourselves and our experiences—and how the Christian life is one such reorganization.

Warren Brown

Complex Dynamical Systems: On Avoiding Abstractions

In the fifth of six videos on “Complex Dynamical Systems,” Warren S. Brown cautions that overly abstract theological and philosophical discussions can become too disconnected from humans’ real and embodied nature and experience.

Warren Brown

Complex Dynamical Systems: Embodied Cognition and the Life of the Church

In the last of six videos on “Complex Dynamical Systems,” Warren S. Brown reflects on the church as a network of interactive persons informing and forming one another in a way that reflects the gospel.

Robert Emmons

Robert Emmons on the Story of Gratitude

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Robert Emmons introduces the history of gratitude research and shares about the multifaceted positive outcomes gratitude has on individuals and communities.