Thomas Ramey Watson

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Brian McLaren’s “A New Kind of Christianity”

From an interview with McLaren by Melvin Bray: “I [McLaren] think we moved from the pre-modern metaphor of the king’s court to the modern metaphor of the judge’s courtroom. And now, I think we’re growing as restless with the court and constitution metaphor as our ancestors did with the kingly metaphor. buying antibiotics If the

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Religion and psychiatric treatment.

From an interesting review of a new book: “The boundary between religious belief and the practice of psychiatry is becoming increasingly porous,” say the editors in the Preface to Religion and Psychiatry: Beyond Boundaries. “No longer can psychiatrists in a multi-faith, multi-cultural globalized world hide behind the dismissal of religious belief as pathological, or behind

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