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PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies
Fuller Theological Seminary
135 N. Oakland Ave, Pasadena CA 91182
I finished my data collection in July 2023 and my dissertation in January 2025 (now awaiting my dissertation defense). See the recruiting blurb blog post below for what I was working on. A preliminary report of the research has been published (DOI: 10.1177/00918296241261735 )
My overall impression of my data was that many people in the interactions I looked at are “standing up for Truth” as they see it, a good number are “speaking out against injustice,” but none that I could find were doing anything I could clearly identify as loving their neighbor (in a way identifiable as such by the neighbor)! (There were plenty explaining why “speaking the truth” as they see it was actually the most loving thing they could do; but that was received as hate, not love, by the recipients.)
My overall impression of my data was that many people in the interactions I looked at are “standing up for Truth” as they see it, a good number are “speaking out against injustice,” but none that I could find were doing anything I could clearly identify as loving their neighbor (in a way identifiable as such by the neighbor)! (There were plenty explaining why “speaking the truth” as they see it was actually the most loving thing they could do; but that was received as hate, not love, by the recipients.)
Publications
Thomas Hale III
Missiology: An International Review, August, 2024, p. 00918296241261735
Posts
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A recruiting blurb that didn't work
This was the recruiting blurb I used (completely unsuccessfully!) to recruit research participants. Instead, I ended up just using actual social media interactions. I preserve users' confidentiality by excluding all metadata that could lead to them bei...
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Privacy is important
I take people’s privacy seriously. So, even though posts on public pages are open to anyone, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the people who made the posts want “what they have entered online” to “become [a researcher’s] data unbeknownst to them,” as...
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