21st Annual Marjorie Pay Hinckley Lecture
"Becoming Whole Through Spiritual Health"
The mental health crisis and loneliness epidemic have captured this country’s attention. But what about the spiritual health crisis in this time when young people have moved away from formal religion?
Pamela Ebstyne King is applying scientific methodology from the discipline of psychology to determine and study aspects of religion that are helpful for well-being. Her theologically and psychologically informed approach to thriving involves becoming whole with and for others and God.
Come learn how her research can move you and those you serve forward to spiritual health, wholeness, and thriving.
Pamela Ebstyne King
Pamela King is the Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science in the School of Psychology and executive director of the Thrive Center for Human Development both at Fuller Theological Seminary. She is also host of the With & For podcast.
King's academic work focuses on psychological and theological perspectives of human thriving and social flourishing. Her psychological research focuses on spiritual and moral development; the role of transcendent beliefs, narratives, and emotions in virtue development; and environments that promote thriving for diverse people. King is co-author of The Reciprocating Self: Human Development in Theological Perspective and Thriving with Stone-Aged Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and Human Flourishing, and co-editor of The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence.
King received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford and a master’s of divinity and PhD in marital and family studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Center on Adolescence at Stanford and a visiting scholar with Cambridge Divinity Faculty at Cambridge University. King is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and lives in Pasadena, California, with her husband and three children.
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