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Matthew Swihart, JD, MFA, is a writer, attorney, and martial arts instructor. He holds a Juris Doctor from Stetson University College of Law, a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Goddard College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida. As an attorney and mediator, Matthew has extensive experience breaking down complex ideas and concepts to help people make wiser decisions, often changing their lives in the process. Matthew has spent most of his life in Florida, but currently resides in Oregon with his wife, a cocker spaniel, and a cat.

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Christianity Simplified: The Basics of the Christian Faith for New Believers and Curious Nonbelievers

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

by Eric Hoffer

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How to End Christian Nationalism

by Amanda Tyler (Goodreads Author)

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

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Feels like reading a modern version of Nahum, with the author as Jonah. I disagree with a few things, but the overall is so well done that they aren’t worth mentioning & ultimately don’t detract from the point: Christian Nationalism has been orchestr ...more
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“Freud's most radical legacy is the one that is the least actualized. After years of evolution on the topic, he came to the conclusion that any exclusive monosexual interest - regardless of whether it was hetero- or homosexual - was neurotic. In a sense Freud is saying what second-wave critic Kate Millet said a half-century late: "Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality." By the end of his writings, in 1937, Freud was downright blythe about bisexuality: "Every human being['s] . . . libido is distributed, either in a manifest or a latent fashion, over objects of both sexes.”
― Jennifer Baumgardner, Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics

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