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Brandon Cook, host of Naming the Real, joins The Vining Center to reflect on growing up evangelical, where faith shaped but eventually constrained him. He explores polarization, collective illusion, and spiritual distortion, proposing a "third way"—unitive centrism—grounded in humility, integration, and love beyond tribal divides and reactive certainty.
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Brandon Cook, host of Naming the Real, joins The Vining Center to reflect on growing up evangelical, where faith shaped but eventually constrained him. He explores polarization, collective illusion, and spiritual distortion, proposing a "third way"—unitive centrism—grounded in humility, integration, and love beyond tribal divides and reactive certainty.

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