Deas: And Other Imaginings Tapa blanda - 2011

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D., graduated from Wheaton College, a bastion of Evangelical education. She then earned a doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Iowa and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Washington. Her first book, Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light, examines her early Evangelical beliefs through the lens of her psychological training and life experience. Currently, she writes for The Huffington Post and ExChristian.net, with an emphasis on healing others from fundamentalism. She also hosts a television series on "Moral Politics" in her hometown of Seattle, Washington. More broadly, she promotes interfaith dialogue and the shared values that link all humanity. She speaks to churches and secular groups on topics such as moral development, the psychology of belief, and wisdom convergence. She also manages WisdomCommons.org, an interactive library of stories, poems, quotations, and essays about character virtues that are valued across secular and religious wisdom traditions.