Mental Health
When Safe Spaces Aren’t Safe: How Unconditional Acceptance Can Stifle Growth
Are safe spaces truly safe? Growth requires loving confrontation, not echo chambers or blind acceptance.
Edwin E. Gantt
January 15, 2025
Are safe spaces truly safe? Growth requires loving confrontation, not echo chambers or blind acceptance.
Truth as a Person, Jesus Christ, reshapes how we approach revelation, moving us beyond contemporary ideological frameworks.
Is joy the same as happiness? Explore how joy is different from happiness and grounded in the scriptures.
Should we always be ‘happy?’ A close look at the doctrine indicates that ‘joy’ is what provides enduring peace.
Psychology is caught between scientism and postmodern activism, creating unique fault lines within the discipline
What truly defines education? Is it merely a tool for power, or is there a deeper pursuit of truth, wisdom, beauty, and virtue? Academia faces an ongoing battle for its soul.
Higher education is in the midst of an era-sized shift, placing radical skepticism and activism at the center.
How has scientism reshaped education? It strips facts of any meaning and turns learning into a soulless quest for power.
Higher education faces a crisis of purpose, with its moral and intellectual foundations eroded by modernism and postmodernism.
Personal responses to UBOH and the AP story have been correlated with underlying feelings about the Church. While somewhat predictable, this does raise serious questions about how to know the truth about any matter involving strong feelings.
When social scientists overstate the role of surrounding causes and conditions, they fundamentally misrepresent the nature of human experience—while undermining fundamental moral agency, accountability, and possibility itself.
Everyone loves to believe that psychologists approach clients through a purely neutral lens. It’s precisely this mistaken presumption that allows real-life conversions to take place unawares.