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January 2012

January 10, 2012

Why I’d Rather Do Research than Publish

For whatever reason I get stuck at the same point with many of my papers--right...

January 05, 2012

Bowling alone… by preference

One of my favorite jokes goes like this: Two economists are looking at a fancy...

January 03, 2012

Two Trends Worth Watching in 2012

The modal image of Christianity in America is face-to-face meetings predominately attended by families. These...

December 2011

December 31, 2011

Which Churches are Growing? FACTS on Growth 2010

Faith Communities Today, a program out of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, has recently...

December 29, 2011

Emotions in Church

I would like to pose some questions about emotions in church. What should be the...

December 28, 2011

A Social Network Map of the New Testament

It's either really cool or social statistics run amok (or both), but here is a...

December 27, 2011

Christianity Worldwide, then (1910) and now (map)

Okay, this maybe the coolest map I've seen of the spread of Christianity worldwide. From...

December 22, 2011

The Worldwide Reach of Christianity: Pew Center Report

Over the past several years, the Pew Center on Religion and Public Life has become...

December 20, 2011

Sociological rules of Christmas gift giving

Sociologists will an analyze anything people do, no matter how taken-for-granted the activity. ( I...

December 17, 2011

Christianity and Islam throughout the World (map)

Here's one of my favorite maps. It shows the percentage of Christianity and Islam in...

December 16, 2011

Study: Atheists distrusted as much as rapists. QRS #2

Here's a provocative study, conducted by psychologists, that concludes that Americans distrust atheists as much...

December 13, 2011

Religiosity worldwide (map)

People often talk about how religious a country the United States is, and compared to...

December 08, 2011

Why Do Christians Leave the Faith? The Relative Unimportance of Non-Christians

Part 4 in a series on deconversion. Going into this study of deconversion, I figured...

December 06, 2011

A Story of Turning the Other Cheek

A problem with moral standards, whether rooted in Christianity or otherwise, is how to express...

December 01, 2011

Why Do Christians Leave the Faith? The Problem of Responding Badly to Doubt

Part 3 in a series on deconversion Does Christians’ bad behavior cause people to leave...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

Are Atheists More Generous? QRS #1

For various reasons, public discussion of religion tends to attract (and create) a lot of...

November 22, 2011

Why Do Christians Leave the Faith? Breaking-up with a God Who Failed Them

Part 2 in a series on deconversion. In a study of religious deconversion, we analyzed...

November 17, 2011

Why Do Christians Leave the Faith? The Fundamental Importance of Apologetics

Part 1 in a series on deconversion. Several colleagues and I recently finished a study...

November 15, 2011

The Surprising Consequences of the Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal

It's no surprise to think that the Catholic sex abuse scandal has resulted in people...

November 12, 2011

Interview on 100 Huntley Street

100 Huntley Street is one of Canada's top religious programs, and here's an interview that...

November 10, 2011

Does God Use Natural Disasters to Guide American Politics?

In recent weeks, I have written about my discomfort with people aligning religion with a...

November 08, 2011

Why pastors should plagiarize in their sermons

I've been thinking about the differences between classroom teaching and pulpit preaching. When I teach,...

November 05, 2011

Religious affiliation in the United States since 1910: The long, steady decline of Mainline Protestantism

On Thursday, I referenced the dramatic decline in Mainline Protestantism over the past century. Here's...

November 03, 2011

Did the Religious Right Lose 10 Million Christians?

In the 1990s, a seismic shift occurred in religious America. During that period, the percentage...

November 01, 2011

5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds

I'm a sucker for maps, and this is one of my favorites. It charts the...

October 2011

October 27, 2011

Why It’s Difficult to Derive Political Affiliation from the Bible or Why I’m a “Political Agnostic”

With presidential elections coming up, we’ll hear a lot more about every aspect of politics,...

October 25, 2011

St. Thomas Aquinas’ Prayer for Scholars

Ineffable Creator, You who are the true source of life and wisdom and the Principle...

October 22, 2011

A Christian Economist’s Response to Occupy Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street protest has dominated the news over the past month, and it's...

October 20, 2011

Is Mormonism a Cult? Not Now (But It Used to Be).

With Mitt Romney making a run for a presidency, people are thinking about his religious...

October 18, 2011

Steven Colbert on Christian love, deservingness, and politics

As a follow-up to my post last week on Christian love and deservingness, here's a...

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