FAITH • PSYCHOLOGY • BIAS • HISTORY • LEADERSHIP • BELONGING
Bring Your Questions. Keep Your Brain.
ABIDE is where faith, psychology, history, bias, leadership, belonging, and human behavior meet—without fear, fluff, or checking your mind at the door. Explore evidence-based ideas that help people think clearly, lead humanely, and build spaces where more of us can belong.
What ABIDE Explores
ABIDE connects evidence, history, psychology, and lived experience to examine how beliefs form, how bias shapes decisions, how leaders influence culture, and what helps people truly belong.
Faith & Belonging
Explore belief without fear or performance, with room for doubt, honest questions, spiritual formation, and belonging.
Psychology & Bias
Understand the shortcuts, emotions, identities, and social pressures that shape what we notice, trust, remember, and defend.
History, Leadership & Human Behavior
Trace how inherited stories and power shape institutions, then apply evidence-based insight to lead with courage, accountability, and care.
Choose Your Way In
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Essays on Substack and the ABIDE blog explore faith, psychology, bias, history, leadership, belonging, and human behavior with evidence, context, and room to think.
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Watch ABIDE
YouTube conversations and short-form video make complex ideas clear, human, and useful without flattening the nuance.
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Explore what faith looks like outside institutional walls, especially where belief, identity, community, and lived experience meet.
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Candid theological conversation that is direct without becoming cruel and honest without pretending difficult questions have easy answers.
Evidence Over Easy Answers
ABIDE draws on psychology, organizational research, history, and lived experience to help people question inherited assumptions and make more human decisions.
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Organizations Studied
A major study of 708 private-sector establishments found that diversity efforts are strongest when organizations assign clear responsibility, track outcomes, and build accountability into leadership systems.
References
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Edmondson, A. C. (1999). Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 350–383. https://doi.org/10.2307/2666999
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Google re:Work. (n.d.). Understand team effectiveness. Google. Retrieved May 16, 2026, from https://rework.withgoogle.com/intl/en/guides/understand-team-effectiveness
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Kalev, A., Dobbin, F., & Kelly, E. (2006). Best practices or best guesses? Assessing the efficacy of corporate affirmative action and diversity policies. American Sociological Review, 71(4), 589–617. https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240607100404
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Schmidt, F. L., & Hunter, J. E. (1998). The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research findings. Psychological Bulletin, 124(2), 262–274. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.124.2.262
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Schmidt, F. L., Oh, I.-S., & Shaffer, J. A. (2016). The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 100 years of research findings. Fox School of Business Research Paper. https://home.ubalt.edu/tmitch/645/session%204/Schmidt%20&%20Oh%20validity%20and%20util%20100%20yrs%20of%20research%20Wk%20PPR%202016.pdf
100 Years
Of Hiring Research
Personnel-selection research across 100 years shows that structured interviews, work samples, and clear evaluation criteria improve decision quality more than informal “gut feeling” approaches.
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Psychological Safety Tested
Research on 51 work teams found that psychological safety supports learning behavior and team performance. When people can raise concerns, organizations can fix problems early — preventing what we call culture rot.
THE QUESTIONS BENEATH THE SURFACE
Why We Think What We Think
ABIDE looks beneath arguments and assumptions to explore the forces that shape what we believe, how we behave, and whether people feel safe enough to belong.
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Belief & Identity
Beliefs do not live in the mind alone. They are woven into identity, memory, community, and the stories we inherit about who we are and where we belong.
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Bias & Certainty
Our brains protect identity and certainty before they protect accuracy. Recognizing those shortcuts helps us question assumptions without shaming the people who hold them.
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Power & Belonging
Belonging is more than welcome language. It grows where people can be honest, ask hard questions, and remain fully human without fear of punishment or exclusion.
Keep Thinking. Stay Human.
Read the essays, watch the conversations, and bring your questions into a community that values evidence, nuance, compassion, and honest thought.
Ideas Worth Sitting With
Explore essays and practical insights on faith, psychology, bias, history, leadership, belonging, and the habits that shape human behavior.
