

Treason and political savvy in multifaith engagement
Last weekend I was catching up on some reading that included a chapter by Jonathan Haidt and Sara Algoe titled "Moral Amplification and...


Results of psychological and theological research
The Multi-faith Matters grant project team met in August and discussed the results of the first year's worth of research, and I've been...


New survey launched to understand evangelical multi-faith approaches
On Monday we launched a new survey started using Amazon's Mechanical Turk for participants. The Multi-faith Matters team wants to...


Humility in multi-faith engagement
In the Christian tradition, humility is an important virtue. St. Augustine famously said that, "Humility is the foundation of all the...


Multi-faith engagement and the challenge of post hoc theologizing
I really appreciate the efforts of various evangelicals in trying to help members of our tribe relate to those in other religions in more...


Evangelicals, Terror Management, and Worldview Defense
Regular readers have been following my ongoing research in social psychology and other disciplines that I am pursuing as a part of both a...


Evangelical purity and symbolic threats
During the course of my continuing research in social psychology in dialogue with a theology of multi-faith engagement, I found a...


Moralized truth and evil values violators
I've talked a lot about social psychology in dialogue with a theology of multi-faith engagement, but what about evangelical concerns for...


Evangelicals, heretical disgust, and purity of mind
Sometimes seemingly different questions have common answers. Consider these: Why are evangelicals so viscerally opposed to syncretism?...


Purity of the nation is of interest too
Recently I put up a blog post that included a video that illustrated the purity moral foundation in an evangelical media personality and...