Embracing Discomfort: How cognitive biases contribute to church problems and deconstruction

Embracing Discomfort: How cognitive biases contribute to church problems and deconstruction

Intro

• Impact matrix
• Nathan doesn’t have bone spurs
• “Pants” vs “Trousters”
• churchofchristsingles.com
• Proverbs 31
  
• Florida College
• Mead
• “How Beer Saved the World”

Pattern Matching Brains

• Jordan Klepper
• Jay Leno JayWalking
• Cognitive biases
• Russian speakers see more blue than English speakers
• Himba Tribe can see more green than you

Biases & Church pt 1

• Availability Heuristic
• Cognitive dissonance
• Confirmation Bias
• “Foundation” on AppleTV+
• Chainsawsuit.com comic
• Podcast: “The Bible for Normal People”
• Book: “The Five Gospels”
• The Jesus Seminar
• Gospel of Thomas
  
• Book: “With” by Skye Jethani
• Preston Sprinkle
• Shared Information Bias
• Groupthink
• Illusory Truth Effect
• Dunning-Kruger Effect

Biases & Church pt 2

• Confidence Bias
• Con Artist
• Podcast: “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill”
  
• Conformity Bias
• Child loss awareness license plates
• Appeal to History fallacy

For deconstructors and church leaders

• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• Loss Aversion
• Survivorship bias
• Dan’s post mentioning recency bias
• Following the Fire Discussion Group