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We are always—consciously and unconsciously—processing data. In this collection of essays, a variety of voices encourage readers to think about how our brains work. Authors grapple with not only the particular ways the theological disciplines invite students to think, but also how thinking theologically shapes a student’s sense of self in a wider community of thinking and believing. Thinking...

Don’t apologize for your background. It has made you who you are. This is a liberating truth, even if you have chosen to distance yourself from certain parts of your inherited faith.9 There is no need to be embarrassed, for all of us bring the influence of our background to our reading of the Bible, our theologies, our ethics, and our spirituality. My inherited faith had emphasized narrative knowledge and influenced me to accept Bible stories as true without questioning the logic or scientific possibility
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