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November 2011

November 08, 2011
I've been thinking about the differences between classroom teaching and pulpit preaching. When I teach,...
November 07, 2011
My research team and I are waist-deep in interviews of twenty-somethings for my next book...
November 06, 2011
Last weekend at the meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, I...
November 05, 2011
On Thursday, I referenced the dramatic decline in Mainline Protestantism over the past century.  Here's...
November 04, 2011
While attending college, I occasionally participated in a largely Korean evangelical Protestant campus group that...
November 03, 2011
In the 1990s, a seismic shift occurred in religious America. During that period, the percentage...
November 02, 2011
As a graduate student, I remember reading Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Faith and...
November 01, 2011
I'm a sucker for maps, and this is one of my favorites.  It charts the...

October 2011

October 31, 2011
This week I find myself thinking and writing once more about my late colleague Norval...
October 30, 2011
I just returned from the annual  meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of...
October 29, 2011
Daniel Darling has a blog worth reading on Patheos, and he's interviewed many thoughtful, interesting...
October 27, 2011
With presidential elections coming up, we’ll hear a lot more about every aspect of politics,...
October 26, 2011
Well, it looks like there is a ranking for everything. A USA today report recently...
October 25, 2011
Ineffable Creator, You who are the true source of life and wisdom and the Principle...
October 24, 2011
Now that I have your attention (or not), this subject has been on my mind...
October 22, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street protest has dominated the news over the past month, and it's...
October 21, 2011
In recent months significant attention was paid to the execution of Troy Davis – attention...
October 20, 2011
With Mitt Romney making a run for a presidency, people are thinking about his religious...
October 19, 2011
Recently I was talking with a colleague about how to interpret a survey item on...
October 18, 2011
As a follow-up to my post last week on Christian love and deservingness, here's a...
October 17, 2011
Clearly the Atlantic Monthly is onto something in its coverage of men, women, and relationships....
October 15, 2011
Do you know about Research on Religion podcasts?  If not, you should.  Anthony Gill, a...
October 14, 2011
Recently, several news outlets have made a modest effort at remembering significant contributors, namely Reverend...
October 13, 2011
Here's an interview in Christianity Today with Glenn Stanton on his book 'The Ring Makes...
October 13, 2011
As I understand the Bible, we're supposed to love others unconditionally.  I understand this to...
October 12, 2011
Writing in the Wall Street Journal opinion page on September 16, 2011, Religion News Service...
October 11, 2011
Mark Chaves, of Duke sociology, has written this very interesting paper about what he calls religious...
October 10, 2011
In support of his new book, More God Less Crime, Byron Johnson, of Baylor, has...
October 07, 2011
I was talking to a friend last night when he let drop a most interesting...
October 06, 2011
The other night, I watched the movie Fireproof. It came out in 2008, and it’s...
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