When Christians resist learning about social psychology, they tolerate or even celebrate toxic masculinity and narcissism in congregational and political leaders. When Christians resist learning from doctors and social workers about the processes of dying, they prepare themselves for the afterlife but not for the long dying process that so often precedes it in contemporary culture. When they resist learning about neurobiology and mental illness, Christians engage in harmful or ineffective therapy, counseling, and teaching. When they don’t fearlessly confront the kind of historical whitewashing
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