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January 2012

January 31, 2012
By George Yancey Part 3 in a series (Read part 1 and 2) It may...
January 30, 2012
Protestant-Catholic similarities and distinctions have been a theme of mine in several blog posts, and...
January 29, 2012
Some time ago, I was having lunch with a good friend. The conversation turned to...
January 28, 2012
I have recently undertaken a study of Christian deconversion--why do people leave Christianity. In reading...
January 27, 2012
Happy Lunar New Year everyone! If you're like a lot of Americans, you may not...
January 26, 2012
There is confusion in popular discussion about how many Americans are atheists. Here I review...
January 25, 2012
In December, Georgetown scholars Tom Farr and Tim Shah organized an online debate through the...
January 24, 2012
By George Yancey (Part 2 in a series. Read Part 1 here) Okay so can...
January 23, 2012
Joe Paterno’s death at 85 would not be nearly so sad to us—after all, 85...
January 22, 2012
By Richard Flory Yesterday, Jeremy Rhodes wrote about a new survey from Barna Group that...
January 21, 2012
By Jeremy Rhodes A recent poll conducted by the Barna Group reveals that 46% of...
January 20, 2012
At the school where I teach and research we just finished our second week of...
January 19, 2012
A defining feature of life today is we have a lot of celebrities. We live...
January 18, 2012
(Part 1 in a series of 4) By George Yancey I describe myself as "Just...
January 17, 2012
A Professor in Princeton University's Religion department, Eric Gregory, once told me that many students...
January 16, 2012
I’ve only been blogging for a few short months, and I’ve already reached a new...
January 14, 2012
It's my impression that the greater the social significance of a topic, the more inaccurate...
January 13, 2012
Near the end of 2011, I had heard rumors that media celebrity Oprah Winfrey was...
January 12, 2012
I’ve been thinking about personal standards lately, and one of the people I know with...
January 11, 2012
January 10, 2012, marks the 2nd anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti. Having spent...
January 10, 2012
For whatever reason I get stuck at the same point with many of my papers--right...
January 09, 2012
I’ve always been the kind of person who reads the obituaries in the local newspaper....
January 07, 2012
Here's an interesting map of where mega-churches are located in the U.S. There are 1,300...
January 06, 2012
The new year is always a time for lists, all kinds of lists. So I...
January 05, 2012
One of my favorite jokes goes like this: Two economists are looking at a fancy...
January 04, 2012
I read with great interest my colleague Jerry Park's recent blog about Asian-American religion and...
January 03, 2012
The modal image of Christianity in America is face-to-face meetings predominately attended by families. These...
January 02, 2012
I’m not sure if it’s age or what, but I’ve been thinking more frequently about...
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