I have some pretty big biases in my life. I have a "crazy right-wing" tendency, which I really have to work sometimes to shut off. I was raised in a family where the more traditional view of things was not dismissed, necessarily, but also not blindly accepted. As I have grown, I have discovered that when I "research" an issue, I usually am not doing anything of the kind. I am really looking over a whole lot of information, and the pieces of information that resonate with me are the ones that support my already firmly established opinion. A particularly difficult and firmly-held belief of mine was challenged recently, in a way that didn't address my bias, exactly, but did bring a question into focus for me: is my way of thinking about this issue correct? I had to pray about it. It was a hard prayer, because there was a real chance that I had been wrong about this belief. It was an attitude that had been passed down for generations, and changing my mind