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October 2015

October 28, 2015
A new national poll has Ben Carson passing Donald Trump in the Republican presidential race. ...
October 28, 2015
The Wall Street Journal has an article on recent research into "earworms," those songs that...
October 28, 2015
One of the biggest hits of the television season has been the presidential debates.  They...
October 27, 2015
I stumbled upon this article from seven years ago--another one by the great sociologist of...
October 27, 2015
I've blogged about the "transabled," people who feel that they should have been born into...
October 27, 2015
The Washington Examiner reports that Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives have arrived...
October 26, 2015
A synod of bishops has been meeting at the Vatican discussing "the family" and possible...
October 26, 2015
Lincoln Chafee dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.  With Jim Webb...
October 26, 2015
I was pulling for the Cubs, in honor of my late Father, a die-hard Cubs...
October 26, 2015
In Stillwater, Oklahoma, not far from where we live now, a woman drove her car...
October 23, 2015
"It is God's nature to make something out of nothing; hence one who is not...
October 23, 2015
Republican insiders are realizing what they once thought was unthinkable:  Donald Trump could win their...
October 23, 2015
Pluto lost its status as a planet in 2006, but the New Horizon space probe...
October 22, 2015
More from Knut Tveitereid in Oslo:  I love it when Bible expositors mine riches out...
October 22, 2015
Who among us does not read consumer reviews before buying an online product?  Or eating...
October 22, 2015
Vice-president Joe Biden announced that he would not run for president.  This pretty much assures...
October 21, 2015
The other speaker at the Inner Mission youth ministry conference in Oslo, in addition to...
October 21, 2015
The Westboro Baptist Church, known for its "God hates gays" demonstrations and military funeral disruptions,...
October 21, 2015
The United States is flirting with dynastic politics in choosing between another Bush and another...
October 21, 2015
Jim Webb, whom many conservatives considered the star of the Democratic debate, announced that he...
October 20, 2015
We were on our own for several days in Copenhagen, so on Sunday we attended...
October 20, 2015
In a discussion of Playboy Magazine's new policy of not publishing nude pictures, Mollie Hemingway...
October 20, 2015
The Democratic presidential candidates are raising much more money than the Republican candidates. From In...
October 19, 2015
In the Democratic debate, Bernie Sanders said that what he meant by Democratic Socialism is...
October 19, 2015
Peter Berger, a Lutheran in the ELCA, is an important sociologist of religion.  Back in...
October 19, 2015
Reversing his earlier plans, President Obama has decided to keep 5,500 American troops in Afghanistan...
October 16, 2015
The state churches in Scandinavia are theologically liberal, sometimes to an extreme.  For example, in...
October 16, 2015
At the Democratic debate, the candidates were asked "what enemy are you most proud of?" ...
October 16, 2015
The Washington Post has a fascinating profile of David Daleiden, who insinuated himself into abortionist...
October 15, 2015
The distinguished sociologist of religion Peter Berger once promoted "the secularization thesis," arguing that as...
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