The Circle Of Insight

Join us as we explore if the belief in God is biological with Professor Ralph Hood. Professor Ralph Hood teaches Origins of the Social Sciences and Issues in Contemporary Social Science. Is the capacity to believe in God a biological trait that has evolved in humans in order to provide comfort?

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Bill Jenkins is the Founder and Senior Pastor of the Church of ACTS. He is originally from Chicago. He graduated from Christ for the Nations Bible College. He moved to Indianapolis to start the Church of ACTS and held its first service on May 15, 1991. He is a faithful shepherd to the flock of God's people. He and his wife, Britain, have three boys. He enjoys coaching their little league sports te...

Join Carlos as he explores Does religion suppress women's sexuality with Angie Wyatt. Angie Wyatt the author of the award-winning book, God and Boobs: Balancing Faith and Sexuality. Her professional life is dedicated to helping women improve the most important relationships in their lives, starting with God. I am the former Spiritual Director of Oral Roberts University, and later worked as an Asso...

Join us as we explore faith with Dr. Swanson-Leadbetter. Dr. Swanson-Leadbetter is a Sponsor and Coach for GAP Community and has been involved with transformational work since 2003.She has a Doctorate in Ministry/Theology from King’s Seminary and her Master of Divinity with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fuller Theological Seminary. She has been licensed as a Marriage and Fami...

Join Dr. Carlos and Rev. Whitfield as we explore Christianity's view on helping others and the question of why bad things happen to good people.

Join us as Carlos explores explaining evil with Dr. Ellens. Dr. Ellens acquired his college education at Calvin College and graduate degrees at Calvin Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD in the Psychology of Human Communications and a PhD in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins. He is now a retired chur...

Monica Migliorino Miller is a nationally known pro-life leader, a pioneer and veteran of pro-life activism dating back to 1976, and founder of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society. In addition to her pro-life leadership, Miller is an associate professor of religious studies at Madonna University having earned her doctorate at Marquette University. Monica and her husband Edmund have three children. She...

How to Listen so Parents Will Talk and Talk so Parents Will Listen will help you develop positive relationships with parents so that constructive two-way dialogue can be established. Even the most difficult and resistant parents can be successfully engaged through the helpful strategies, advice, and tools found in this practical guide. About the Author John Sommers-Flanagan, PhD, is an Associate P...

Leslie Greenberg, PhD, is distinguished research professor of psychology at York University in Toronto and director of the York University Psychotherapy Research Clinic. He has authored the major texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment. His most recent book is Theory of Emotion-Focused Therapy (2011). Dr. Greenberg is a past president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), and h...

Sumbul Ali-Karamali grew up in California, balancing her South Asian, Muslim, and American identities. Often the only Muslim her acquaintances knew, she had ample practice answering questions about Islam and Muslims. ("What do you mean you can't go to the prom because of your religion?") While working as a corporate lawyer, she was repeatedly asked to recommend books on Islam, so she decided to wr...

Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York, best-selling author, legendary feminist leader, and psychotherapist. She is co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology, the National Women's Health Network, and the International Committee for Women of the Wall. Dr. Chesler has lectured and organized women's rights and human rights...

Join Carlos as he explores the psychology of dictator with Dr. Moghaddam. Fathali M. Moghaddam, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Conflict Resolution Program, Department of Government at Georgetown University. Dr. Moghaddam was born in Iran, educated from an early age in England, and worked for the United Nations and McGill University before joining George...

Join Dr. Carlos as he gets a personal look at empowering women with Marianny Rondon. Marianny is a fitness model and actress. She has competed in national fitness competitions. She is from Venezuela.

STANTON E. SAMENOW PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has spent 40 years as a researcher, clinician, consultant, and expert witness specializing in criminal behavior. He has also served as an independent evaluator in adversarial child custody disputes and has been appointed to three presidential task forces on law enforcement, victims' rights, and a drug-free America. Among numerous other nationa...

Join Dr. Carlos as he explores the mind of the Beast. Dan “THE BEAST” Severn has captured the attention of fight and wrestling fans all over the world since his 1994 debut in the Ultimate Fighting Championships [UFC]. Dan is known as “The Beast,” a name given to him by Jim Brown during one of his many fights in the UFC. The native of Coldwater Michigan has accepted all challengers in any no holds...

Join Carlos Vazquez as he explores the psychology of witchcraft. The witch is a uniquely powerful image in Western society. It is a symbol alternately vilified, ridiculed and idealised by differing sectors of society and is a powerful symbol in Western mythology. This book traces the evolution of the modern representations of Witchcraft and Paganism from the popular imaginings of witchcraft in 16t...

Join us as we explore the Bohemian Grove with Don Eichelberger. Don Eichelberger is a freelance writer in San Francisco and a founding member of Bohemian Grove Action Network. In 1980, the men’s-only “HiJinx” camp-out of the elite Bohemian Club in San Francisco lost anonymity when the reach of this gathering was revealed to local feminists, anti-nuclear activists and other veterans of the peace an...

Join Carlos as he explores Reptilian people with John Rhodes. John Rhodes is the world's foremost authority on Reptilian-Humanoids, or Reptilian Aliens. His pioneering work investigating claims of reptilian alien contact eventually resulted in the birth of an entirely new genre of study in the UFO community

If you are depressed, anxious, angry, worried, confused, frustrated, upset, or ashamed, please remember that you are not alone in your struggle with painful feelings and experiences. Everybody experiences emotional distress sometimes. It’s normal. But when the pain becomes too strong and too enduring, it’s time to take that important first step toward feeling better. Painful thoughts can arise in...

What do a school shooter, a corporate swindler, and a bullheaded ideologue have in common?-They all converge on what author Kirk Schneider terms "the polarized mind." The polarized mind, which is the fixation on one point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view, is killing us-personally, politically, and environmentally. Drawing from the standpoint of existential psychology, thi...

Join us as we explore Why do people believe in unusual animals? with Scott Marlowe. Scott Marlowe has been working in the cryptids field for over 30 years collecting and analyzing accounts of strange animal encounters and legends about enigmatic creatures from his travels.

Join us as Carlos explores Bigfoot meets Science: see who wins with Dr. Meldrum. Dr. Meldrum Dr. Meldrum joined the ISU faculty in 1993, after a stint with Northwestern University. His research revolves around questions of vertebrate evolutionary morphology, especially primate locomotor adaptations. His formal study of primates began with doctoral research on terrestrial adaptations in African pri...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses free will with Dr. Kane. Robert Kane is a professor at University of Texas, Austin. Opening with a concise introduction to the history of the problem of free will--and its place in the history of philosophy--the book then turns to contemporary debates and theories about free will, determinism, and related subjects like moral responsibility, coercion, compulsion, aut...