Dan Koch: Why Religion?

Dan Koch is the host of You Have Permission podcast. He is working towards his doctorate in counseling psychology at Northwest University in Kirkland, WA. He focuses specifically on spiritual abuse. His Spiritual Harm & Abuse Scale was published in May 2022 in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Dan is most interested in overlapping questions and interactions between psychology and religion/spirituality. Email: [email protected]: @dancokeTwitter: @dankoch​ In this conversation, we explore Dan's spiritual and philosophical background as well as his honest thoughts on religion today.