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April 2012

April 02, 2012

In the era of Facebook, just what are congregations for?

What are congregations for? It’s a simple question at face value, but I think the...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

What Paintball Taught Me about the Market in Relationships

My 12-year-old son and I play paintball about once every three or four months. (If...

March 19, 2012

Reds and Blues on Cohabitation and Marriage

(Last on a theme from Premarital Sex in America…) Blues are pragmatic about sex and...

March 12, 2012

Blue Sex: How it’s Different from Red Sex

(Another clip from Premarital Sex in America...) Jeff is a freshman at a state university...

March 05, 2012

Red Sex

(This is an excerpt from my 2011 book Premarital Sex in America...) Martin was a...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

Contraception, Cheap Sex, and the Nonmarital Birth Rate

Every once in a while something in the New York Times will bring a smile...

February 06, 2012

Whatever happened to military sociology?

There’s a graduate student I know who has a significant interest in what’s called military...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

What’s the difference between a Pastor and a Priest?

Protestant-Catholic similarities and distinctions have been a theme of mine in several blog posts, and...

January 23, 2012

Why Joe Paterno’s Death Makes Us Feel Bad

Joe Paterno’s death at 85 would not be nearly so sad to us—after all, 85...

January 16, 2012

What’s so bad about (the word) religion?

I’ve only been blogging for a few short months, and I’ve already reached a new...

January 09, 2012

When it comes to Death, we’re the Biggest Liars

I’ve always been the kind of person who reads the obituaries in the local newspaper....

January 02, 2012

This is not my father’s world

I’m not sure if it’s age or what, but I’ve been thinking more frequently about...

December 2011

December 19, 2011

On Hitchens, Apologetics, and the Strangeness of Christianity

So Christopher Hitchens is dead. Waste no time speculating about his end, or what happened...

December 05, 2011

Confession: It’s Cheaper than Therapy

Since becoming Catholic last Spring, I've had opportunity to think about what’s been gained by...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

Lost (and Found) in Translation

Yesterday was an unusual Sunday for American Catholics, and reinforces the distinctive nature of worship...

November 21, 2011

CCM: Contemporary Catholic Music?

My wife is a big fan of contemporary Christian music (CCM), and has listened to...

November 14, 2011

The Last American Sin

Watching the Penn State fiasco shake out last week awoke to my consciousness something that...

November 07, 2011

Whatever Happened to “Unequally Yoked”?

My research team and I are waist-deep in interviews of twenty-somethings for my next book...

October 2011

October 31, 2011

Beauty and the Beast

This week I find myself thinking and writing once more about my late colleague Norval...

October 24, 2011

Here’s to Bad Divorces?

Now that I have your attention (or not), this subject has been on my mind...

October 17, 2011

Shifting evangelical ideas about sex

Clearly the Atlantic Monthly is onto something in its coverage of men, women, and relationships....

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