Easily my earliest and largest research area… Authenticity is more than being true to who you are, it is also being true to yourself in relationship with others. These are significant others – but not just everyone.

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Performative Authenticity

The Friendship Recession: Learned Loneliness (Part 1)

The Friendship Recession: Friendship as Both Needed and Discovered (Part 2)

The Friendship Recession: Resilient Practice (Part 3)

Authenticity Under Threat: An Existential Response (Part 1)

Authenticity Under Threat: Alienation in Mass Society (Part 2)

Authenticity Under Threat: Mysterious Relationship (Part 3)

Authenticity Under Threat: Existentialism and the Church’s Potential Complacency (Part 4)

Authenticity and Humility in the Noise of Greatness

Changing Language; Changing Identity

A Private Life and Her Three Communities

Christian Faith: False Church and Inauthenticity