1. "Paradise Lost: Childhood Punishment and the Myth of Adam's Sin."

Book chapter, in Kille, Andrew D., and Daschke, D., eds. A Cry Instead of Justice: The Bible and Cultures of Violence in Psychological Perspective. T&T Clark: New York, 2010.

2. "Religious Behavior as a Reflection of Childhood Corporal Punishment"

Book chapter, in Feierman, Jay R., ed. The Biology of Religious Behavior, Praeger: Westport, 2009.

3. "What the History of Childhood Reveals about New Testament Origins and the Psychology of Christian Belief."

Article, in CSER Review 2007, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 11-16.

4. "The Shaping of Religious Narratives and Salvation Theologies by Painful Childhood Experience."

Article, submitted for publication; currently being peer-reviewed. This lengthy article explores aspects of Christianity in depth and then offers preliminary comments on Judaism and Islam, karmic religions, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.

5. Book manuscript on Christianity, with a substantial epilogue on other religions and myths.

In progress.

6. Article- and chapter-length writings on the impact of painful childhood experience on religious life, in various stages of preparation.

Topics include Paul on sin, law, and death; John's Gospel; Augustine's Confessions; Luther on justification; Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy; asceticism; and monasticism.

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