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March 2013

March 11, 2013
So it all comes down to this week, for Catholics. And in a at least...
March 07, 2013
Last week I posted a figure showing the rise of the religiously unaffiliated over the...
March 04, 2013
Although there are perhaps more timely subjects to tackle here this week, including the dueling,...
March 02, 2013
I decided to take a page from Mark Regnerus and look at some old data...
March 01, 2013
A recurring conversation in sociology is that of segregation. While we are decades away from...

February 2013

February 28, 2013
One of the big changes in American religion over the past several decades has been...
February 26, 2013
Last week, my daughter brought home a class worksheet where she had noted that Barack...
February 22, 2013
Fellow blogger and sociologist Mark Regnerus’ recent post on suicide rates and ideation prompted me...
February 20, 2013
My recent visit with Jane Dutton of the University of Michigan's Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship...
February 18, 2013
With the news of troubled country music star Mindy McCready’s death from suicide, a month...
February 17, 2013
I remember learning the details about the killing of Osama bin Laden. At the time...
February 16, 2013
It’s a festive time of year for Asian Americans. As many readers know, the Lunar...
February 14, 2013
A longstanding theme in the sociology of religion is how religious beliefs and practices affect...
February 12, 2013
As a follow up to my recent post about my Monastic Vacation at a 13th-century...
February 12, 2013
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.  Although many Protestants do not celebrate...
February 11, 2013
Lots of us are thinking and writing with an unusual mixture of heavy heart and...
February 08, 2013
While attending the American Sociological Association annual meetings are a humbling experience when you hear...
February 07, 2013
In the 1990s, a sociology psychologist named Peter Gollwitzer conducted a fabulously useful experiment. He...
February 06, 2013
When I first started read Gretchen Rubin’s best-selling book, The Happiness Project, I thought, “Wow,...
February 04, 2013
Although I didn't blog on it here, back in December I published a piece about...
February 04, 2013
I spent the weekend in South Texas at a generous friend’s ranch. It just happens...
February 02, 2013
The recent blog post by Margarita Mooney on suffering and flourishing got me to thinking....

January 2013

January 28, 2013
I’ve been crunching NFSS numbers again, mostly assessing the sexual and relationship behaviors of young...
January 24, 2013
I have been reading the sociological literature on race and religion, especially multiracial churches. A...
January 22, 2013
The Hastert Center for Economics, Government, And Public Policy  at Wheaton College hosted an event...
January 19, 2013
 While still recovering from the flu (yes I still got it despite getting a shot...
January 17, 2013
In preparing for another semester, I am struck yet again by how very little I...
January 16, 2013
Can bad things really lead to good things? Is it possible for suffering to lead...
January 15, 2013
I commonly teach an introductory sociology course each semester to approximately 200 students. I run...
January 11, 2013
  Last year around this time I introduced readers to the way sociologists rank the...
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