Posts by Cindy Brandt
Should We Teach Children to Turn the Other Cheek?
Theology, as is often true, is done best from the margins, including vulnerable children.
Read MoreTen Reasons The Original Sin Doctrine is Damaging for Children
Original Sin relegates behaviors that are developmentally normal as proof that children are rebellious instead of exploring children’s psychology and healthy development.
Read More5 Ways Fundamentalism Hinders Emotional Literacy
For brain chemistry dysfunction leading to mental instability, often what people need are medication or professional therapy—not a pastor with an MDiv degree.
Read MoreFor the Deconstructing Parent
I hear parents say, “I just don’t know what to teach my children with all of my own questioning,”
Read MoreChild Abuse in the Near-Sacrifice of Isaac
Photo credit: rzrxtion (pronounced resurrection) on Visualhunt / CC BY “The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken,” says psychoanalyst Lloyd DeMause, who has uncovered extensive research that reveal pre-20th century, every single parent child relationship would be prosecuted for abuse and neglect. Infanticide, abandonment, child battery,…
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