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February 2013

February 06, 2013

My Happiness Project

When I first started read Gretchen Rubin’s best-selling book, The Happiness Project, I thought, “Wow,...

January 2013

January 16, 2013

Can Suffering Lead to Flourishing?

Can bad things really lead to good things? Is it possible for suffering to lead...

January 09, 2013

Starting Points for Positive Sociology

Ever since I met Martin Seligman, one of the founders of positive psychology, at his...

January 02, 2013

My Monastic Vacation

"Would you please tell me how you got invited to stay in a 13th monastery...

December 2012

December 25, 2012

Christmas Liturgy from the Vatican

From Rome, December 25th, 2012 Have you ever wondered what Christmas liturgy at the St....

November 2012

November 21, 2012

First-Hand Accounts of Hurricane Sandy’s Damage in Santiago de Cuba

Would you consider donating money to help personal friends of mine in Santiago de Cuba...

November 14, 2012

When is Suffering Transformative? Sullivan’s “Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty”

According to the women Susan Crawford Sullivan interviewed for Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in...

November 07, 2012

What Two Deaths Taught Me about Doing Fieldwork

On this day 16 years ago—November 7, 1996—I walked in to my office at the...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Modesty: It’s not a Bad Word

What ideas or images come to your mind when you hear the word modesty? Until...

October 24, 2012

Sayer’s “Why Things Matter to People”

Recently, while reading Andrew Sayer’s book “Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and...

October 16, 2012

My Re-Encounter with Martin Seligman: Launching a Psychology-Sociology Dialogue on Human Flourishing

When, as a 7th grader, I wrote a speech based on Martin Seligman’s theory of learned...

October 10, 2012

Personalism and Sociology: Understanding Relationships as Obligations

Yesterday I sat down in my favorite spot at home and surrounded myself with books...

October 03, 2012

Does Gender Matter in the Classroom?

The New York Times recently reported on a study conducted by researchers at Yale in...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

The “Nothing Box”: One Way Men and Women Are Different

As I was thinking about my most recent blog on male-female differences, I asked the...

September 19, 2012

Thank You, Holden, for Being My Chancellor

The email announcement from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp stating...

September 17, 2012

Peace in Your Hearts, Peace in Your Actions

As I read today about Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Lebanon in which, not surprisingly,...

September 12, 2012

Are Men and Women Really Different?

Does part of self-actualization or self-knowledge have to do with pondering, at least every once...

September 05, 2012

Why do Americans Celebrate Labor Day in September and Not May?

This post is part of a series on personhood. When I first found out that...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Sociological Lessons from the Game of Life

Recently, while on vacation at the beach with my family, I encountered my sister-in-law, niece...

August 22, 2012

“Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty”

Last week, I organized a panel at the Association for the Sociology of Religion...

August 15, 2012

The Acting Person is both Free and Social

Part 3 in a Series on Personhood My previous posts examined the concept of the...

August 08, 2012

What is Personalism? A Rectification of Individualism and Collectivism

Part 2 in a Series on Personhood. As a graduate student in sociology looking for...

August 01, 2012

More than Individuals: How Personalism Influences Social Theory and Research

Part 1 in a Series on Personhood. On July 1, 2012, I began a new...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

What is “It All” That Slaughter Says Women Can’t Have?

Part 3 in a series on Women at Work. Anne Marie Slaugther's article in the...

July 04, 2012

Women Can’t Have it All, and It’s Better That Way

Part 2 in a series on Women at Work, in response to Anne Marie Slaughter’s piece in...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Women Can’t Have it All, but We Could Have it Better

I congratulate Princeton Professor and former Dean Anne Marie Slaughter for her frank piece published...

June 20, 2012

Here’s to My Students: You Make Teaching a Joy

Part 5 in a Series on Teaching Sociology of Religion Online Yesterday I finished teaching...

June 06, 2012

How Effective is Online Learning? Insights from Sociology of Religion Online

Part 4 of a Series on Teaching Sociology of Religion Online. Earlier in this series...

May 2012

May 23, 2012

Three Things I Love about Teaching Sociology of Religion Online

Part 3 in a Series on Teaching Sociology of Religion Online. Here I am again,...

May 18, 2012

The Ups and Downs of Teaching Sociology of Religion OnLine

Part 2 in a Series on Teaching Sociology of Religion Online. I've just finished my...

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