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Thandeka was born Sue Booker to Emma (Barbour) Booker, an artist and teacher, and Merrel D. Booker, a
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tried but failed to correct the error by reaffirming love as the affective foundation of
Christian faith, (4) the nineteenth-century American enlightenment of Common Sense moral values reaffirmed the false foundation for Christian faith of pain and suffering accidentally created by Paul, and (4)
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Thandeka's contemporary affect theology is operational in her non-profit organization, Love Beyond Belief. It organizes small group "Universal Connections" workshops, consultations, and programs for religious and spiritual organizations.
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emotional foundation for handling gentile pain and suffering that generated almost 2000 years of anti-Jewish and anti-Judaic
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