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Dr Nicholas Gibson is Assistant Director of the Psychology and Religion Research Group, Divinity Faculty, Cambridge University. Dr Gibson want to expose the disparity between head and heart knowledge in Christianity. He believes that by getting the heart involved it can have positive consequences and motivations for belief and behaviour. One of Dr Gibson’s psychological […]
Faith is not a fixed thing, we can deepen our faith, and that is what God is trying to do with all of us. But some of us feel that once you have faith, you have it. Faith has become fixed for those people. There are physiological manifestations to our faith mindset. Brain scans show […]
In dealing with the fear of rejection in invitation I turn to social psychology for an intervention. “When you put feelings into words, you’re activating this prefrontal region and seeing a reduced response in the amygdala,” says UCLA psychology professor Matthew Lieberman, highlighting the importance of translating fluid thought into concrete language. “In the same way […]
Cambridge Neuroscientist Rev Dr Alasdair Coles, says “the adult human brain is amazingly plastic at the level of synaptic structure.” Rapid sophisticated movement allowed Indian Test match cricketer Sachin Tendulkar 400 milliseconds to react to the speed of the quickest bowlers in the world and not only hit the ball but direct it in between […]
Someone told me recently that we have to be so careful about making sure the timing is right when we invite someone or have a God conversation with them. Previous experiences where they thought they had got the timing wrong had traumatised them, and so now they had to get the signals right from God, […]
Can we pull the wool over our own eyes or do we see through our mind games? Psychologists have found that not only will many people happily lie to themselves if given a reason, but they will only look for evidence that confirms their comforting self-deception, and then totally believe in the lies they are […]
Peter was frightened by the transfiguration as Jesus’ appearance was changed to dazzling white. In fear Peter says let’s build a shelter and lets stay in the glory. Jesus had previously said that there would be suffering, but we like Peter try to ignore the hard bits and go for the way we want things […]
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