My Confession, Part II

By Ben Toh on Sep 23, 2011 in Church, Communication, Community, Culture, Relationships, Repentance • 4,123 views • 30 comments

In My Confession, Brian confessed how in 1990 he illegally broke into the home of James and Rebekah Kim, the very fruitful Director of Toledo UBF for over a decade ever since the 1970s, to supposedly help them move to Houston. But this was done without their permission or foreknowledge. This is my post, a sequel to Brian’s confession.
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Psychology Meets Religion, Part 3

By Gerardo R on Sep 8, 2011 in Psychology • 1,848 views • 4 comments

Psychologists have often treated mental processes — attention, memory, and decision making — as divorced from the body. As if the mind was processing information in a mental vacuum undisturbed by the other forms of input that are constantly fed to our brain (e.g., heartbeat, fatigue, internal temperature, hunger, thirst).

However, recent theories in embodied cognition are challenging that idea by showing how our body can color our cognitive processing.

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