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Bill: An Attorney’s Insights About the Burden of Proof and Weighing Evidence
As a trial lawyer, Bill has a unique perspective about using the concept of the burden of proof when doing religious research. Drawing on their years of legal experience, Elder Hafen and Bill discuss how to weigh evidence and listen to both sides as a juror might in a court case. Bill also shares how his battle with cancer expanded the strength of revelatory evidence in his life.
Language and the Choice to Believe
In many of our Reconversion Narratives...
Anxiety in Returning
The anxiety that surfaced repeatedly in...
Conceptual Metaphors and Metonymies
The language we use, including our use of...
Spiritual Accompaniment
The specific alignment (or misalignment) between...
Reconciling Public and Private Religious Practice
The narratives we reviewed most often...
Narrating Departure: Understanding the Exodus
How do people narrate and make sense of their...
Disrupting the Narrative: Momentum-Shifting Moments No One Anticipated
What is it that leads a narrative critical of...
On a New Track: Experiencing Fresh Waves of Insight and Rediscovery
After that critical narrative becomes unsettled...