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“To Feel and Carry One Another’s Pain”: Reflections on Neighbor Love (Part II) 

In the second part of this blog post, Paul Kim continues to share insights from his colleagues Katie Douglass (practical theologian) and Brittany Tausen (social psychologist) about their co-authored book, Love Your Neighbor: How Psychology Can Enliven Faith and Transform Community. PK: In a recent Christian Scholar’s Review article, you have written compellingly and thoughtfully…
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“To Feel and Carry One Another’s Pain”: Reflections on Neighbor Love (Part I) 

In this two-part blog post, I (Paul Kim) am excited to feature insights from my colleagues Katie Douglass (practical theologian) and Brittany Tausen (social psychologist) about their co-authored book, Love Your Neighbor: How Psychology Can Enliven Faith and Transform Community. This book explores how to love others better through the lens of both psychology and…
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We Belong Together: The Challenges and Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Research

Practical theology is inherently interdisciplinary. However, this interdisciplinarity is most often engaged through the intellectual work of a single person. In our work on “neighbor love,” the fields of social-cognitive psychology and practical theology have been brought together through the collaborative work of two scholars to better understand the dynamics of dehumanization, the opposite of…