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March 2012

March 16, 2012

Faith and the Duty Work of Fathering

When I teach sociology I usually think about daily life examples to stress the value...

March 13, 2012

Kony 2012 Tells Us What We Care About

By Gerardo Marti An email showed up last week in my inbox with a brief...

March 07, 2012

Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right

A public event on March 1, 2012, hosted by Georgetown University's Berkely Center for Religion,...

March 02, 2012

Do Secular Colleges Destroy Young Christians’ Faith?

I recently received an e-mail asking about the impact of secular vs. Christian colleges on...

February 2012

February 28, 2012

Demographic Change: Casualties or Opportunities?

By Richard Flory At the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, we’ve been talking...

February 27, 2012

Nonmonogamy? Not yet.

“Nonmonogamy” is a gentle mouthful of a word, a polite replacement of sorts for “promiscuity”...

February 13, 2012

If rescue dogs are the only legitimate dogs today, are rescue humans next?

Apparently we now own a rescue dog, a term I was entirely unfamiliar with a...

January 2012

January 29, 2012

Enough of the Inquisition! Christianity and Genocide

Some time ago, I was having lunch with a good friend. The conversation turned to...

January 24, 2012

Can a Christian Benefit from Sociology?

By George Yancey (Part 2 in a series. Read Part 1 here) Okay so can...

January 18, 2012

Do Sociology and Christianity Mix?

(Part 1 in a series of 4) By George Yancey I describe myself as "Just...

January 07, 2012

The distribution of mega-churches in the US (map)

Here's an interesting map of where mega-churches are located in the U.S. There are 1,300...

January 04, 2012

Religion and Depression: Too Soon to Conclude about Asian-Americans

I read with great interest my colleague Jerry Park's recent blog about Asian-American religion and...

December 2011

December 26, 2011

Love your enemies. Sit next to them.

I saw this bit of news last week and, of course, didn’t like it too much....

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 12, 2011

Silence: Golden or Deafening?

My wife spent this past weekend on a silent retreat—her first. Despite what it sounds...

December 10, 2011

The New Evangelicals?

Here's an interesting article from yesterday's New York Times. It describes what it calls "New...

December 03, 2011

A Favorite Conversion Story

I was talking with a good friend about deconversion, and we commiserated that it's a...

November 2011

November 26, 2011

Protestant Mission Stations in 1925

I really like maps, and several weeks ago I posted a figure that illustrates the...

November 24, 2011

The Evangelical 99 Percent

A guest post by Richard Flory Last week I spent a day at the annual...

November 11, 2011

Asian American Faith and the Problem With “No Religion”

In a previous post I shared the current prevalence of Christianity among Asian Americans. Based on...

October 2011

October 29, 2011

An interview with Daniel Darling

Daniel Darling has a blog worth reading on Patheos, and he's interviewed many thoughtful, interesting...

October 11, 2011

Religion incongruence as the norm

Mark Chaves, of Duke sociology, has written this very interesting paper about what he calls religious...

October 07, 2011

Growing up next to the Shakers

I was talking to a friend last night when he let drop a most interesting...

October 06, 2011

Squirming at the movie “Fireproof”

The other night, I watched the movie Fireproof. It came out in 2008, and it’s...

October 06, 2011

John Ortberg’s forward for Wright’s new book

John Ortberg, one of the best known Christian teachers and writers in the country, very...

October 06, 2011

A cover story in Christianity Today by Brad Wright

This month's issue of Christianity Today has an article by me as its cover story....

October 06, 2011

Is religion less important than it used to be?

Is religion less important now than it used to be? There are many ways to...

October 06, 2011

Christian Smith on religious pluralism

Christian Smith has a wonderful op-ed on the Huffington Post. He makes a strong case for...

October 06, 2011

Stark and Johnson on bad news about religion

Rodney Stark and Byron Johnson have written a provocative essay for the Wall Street Journal....

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