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December 2011

December 13, 2011

Religiosity worldwide (map)

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

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 09, 2011

Non-Christian Asian Americans and Religious Tolerance

In earlier posts I’ve shown how difficult it is to get a good survey of...

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 07, 2011

Dead Man Walking: An Evening with Sr. Helen Prejean in Durham

At the end of her talk to a packed house at Trinity United Methodist Church...

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 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...

December 03, 2011

A Favorite Conversion Story

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

December 02, 2011

Those (Ir)Religious Asian Americans?

So I still haven’t answered the question about whether there was a more prevalent Asian...

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 30, 2011

Faith-Based Social Services: An Essential Part of American Civil Society

Did faith-based social service provision begin when George W. Bush started the office of Faith...

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 28, 2011

Lost (and Found) in Translation

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

November 26, 2011

Protestant Mission Stations in 1925

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

November 25, 2011

Faith, Race and Gender: An Historical Look at The Bowery Mission in New York City

New York is the largest city in the United States, so it should not be...

November 24, 2011

The Evangelical 99 Percent

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

November 23, 2011

Haitian Catholics and Gratitude

With Thanksgiving tomorrow, I thought it best to re-post here a blog I wrote last...

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 21, 2011

CCM: Contemporary Catholic Music?

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

November 19, 2011

Intellectuals Need to Question Conventional Categories

How does one's faith influence the intellectual vocation? In part, at least, by encouraging both...

November 18, 2011

What Asian American Religion Tells Us About Religious Incongruity

So as you’ve probably figured out, I am fascinated by Asian Americans and their religions....

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 16, 2011

Women’s Dignity in the Workplace

Do women have to act like men when they enter the professions? The person who...

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 14, 2011

The Last American Sin

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

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 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...

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 09, 2011

Civil Religion in America Then and Now

Yesterday, I discussed with my class Robert Bellah's famous 1967 essay entitled "Civil Religion in...

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