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2012-09-17T21:56:44-05:00

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Peace in Your Hearts, Peace in Your Actions

Last updated on: September 17, 2012 at 9:56 pm By Margarita A. Mooney

As I read today about Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Lebanon in which, not surprisingly, he called for peace, I reflected on how his words point out a common theme in Christian thought which draws on Aristotle’s concept of the virtues. Human goods are not only interior dispositions, nor are they only exterior actions. Human goods must be the alignment of interior dispositions and exterior actions. Is peace a state of mind or the heart? Or is peace a state... Read more

Margarita Mooney

Pope Benedict XVI

virtue

2012-09-15T22:12:01-05:00

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What Motivates Cultural Progressives – Part 2

Last updated on: September 15, 2012 at 10:12 pm By George Yancey

Two weeks ago I started this series based on my latest book entitled What Motivates Cultural Progressives. The research is based on open-ended questions from an online survey to members of organizations that have as part of their purpose opposition to the Christian or religious right. My basic argument is that cultural progressive activists have shaped a movement that meets the needs of the people who inhabit the movement, who tend to be white, male, wealthy and highly educated. Thus... Read more

George Yancey

2012-09-13T00:45:20-05:00

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Go to Church, Skip Your Bible? Religious Incongruity in the News

Last updated on: September 13, 2012 at 12:45 am By Jerry Park

As a Christian trained in sociology it’s sometimes difficult to “leave the statistics alone” when it appears in popular publications or sermons or adult Sunday school. Recently, several Christian news outlets noted a new survey finding, with bold titles like: “80% of Churchgoers Don’t Read Bible Daily.” Such a phrase is meant to provoke reading but the provocation is the interesting part. This claim assumes that Bible reading and churchgoing ought to go hand in hand, whereas survey findings suggest... Read more

Jerry Park

protestant

religious incongruity

survey results

2012-09-13T12:32:48-05:00

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Social Similarity & Faith

Last updated on: September 13, 2012 at 12:32 pm By Bradley Wright

I’ve been thinking a lot about social similarity lately, and maybe you have too (uh, yes, that was a joke). In many ways, social life is structured by similar people finding and interacting with each other. Sociologists call this homophily. This tendency of birds of a feather flocking together has been observed with many socially-relevant characteristics, including gender, social class, age, race, occupation and, of course, religion. As a result of it, we tend to spend more time with people who... Read more

Brad Wright

Social Psychology

2012-09-12T14:38:00-05:00

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Are Men and Women Really Different?

Last updated on: September 12, 2012 at 2:38 pm By Margarita A. Mooney

Does part of self-actualization or self-knowledge have to do with pondering, at least every once in a while, whether men and women are really different? My parents bent over backwards to give me all the same opportunities as my three older brothers. I can’t count how many times my dad told me, “You can do anything the boys can do.” I believed him then, and other than realizing the hard way (i.e., many childhood injuries from playing with boys) that... Read more

Margarita Mooney

womenatwork

2012-09-09T12:07:28-05:00

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The Promise and Peril of Christian Solidarity: Lynching in the Christian South

Last updated on: September 9, 2012 at 12:07 pm By Jerry Park

In between teaching and professional conferences, I have recently embarked on a few trips to interview African American Christians in a large city for an ongoing study of how religion matters (or doesn’t) for everyday workers and entrepreneurs. In the process of meeting a wide array of churchgoers, I listened at length to the personal histories that informed their views on work and faith. What struck me in some cases was the agrarian memories that quite a few folks recalled.... Read more

Jerry Park

African American church

racism

South

2018-08-31T11:19:45-05:00

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

Last updated on: August 31, 2018 at 11:19 am By Margarita A. Mooney

This post is part of a series on personhood. When I first found out that Americans celebrated Labor in September while most of the rest of the world celebrated International Workers’ Day on May 1, I wondered: this just another case of the U.S. try to be different, even exceptional? The simple answer is that the U.S. chooses not to celebrate Labor Day on May 1 because that is considered a socialist holiday, associated with strikes, rebellion, and in some... Read more

Margarita Mooney

personhood

Pope John Paul II

2012-09-04T10:28:07-05:00

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Parades and Protests

Last updated on: September 4, 2012 at 10:28 am By Amy Reynolds

In cities across America, people marched in parades to celebrate Labor Day yesterday. At the first Labor Day in 1882 (occurring a few years before Labor Day became an official holiday in 1894), a number of people marched through the streets of New York City. The march 130 years ago would not have been confused with the marches yesterday, either in purpose or passion. Walking through various neighborhoods yesterday, I saw flags hanging in front of people’s houses. I smelled... Read more

2012-09-01T22:19:15-05:00

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What Motivates Cultural Progressives – Part 1

Last updated on: September 1, 2012 at 10:19 pm By George Yancey

It is election time again. Once every four years we go through our ritual of deciding who is going to be the “leader of the free world” for the next four years. Of course there are a variety of special interest groups doing their best to help determine who that is going to be. One of the groups a lot of scholars and social commentators generally pay attention to is the Christian right. Indeed, this group has had its share... Read more

George Yancey

2012-08-30T11:57:16-05:00

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Update on the Regnerus situation

Last updated on: August 30, 2012 at 11:57 am By Bradley Wright

Here’s an update on the brouhaha over Mark Regnerus’ study. As it should have, the complaint against Regnerus to the University of Texas was ruled to be without merit. Here’s the opening paragraphs of the article: “No formal investigation is warranted regarding allegations of scientific misconduct against a faculty member’s study that raised doubts about gay parenting, the University of Texas announced today. The university conducted an inquiry to determine whether the accusations against associate professor Mark Regnerus concerning an article of... Read more

Brad Wright

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