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November 2011

November 08, 2011

Why pastors should plagiarize in their sermons

I've been thinking about the differences between classroom teaching and pulpit preaching. When I teach,...

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...

November 06, 2011

Best Selling Books in Sociology of Religion, SSSR 2011

Last weekend at the meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, I...

November 05, 2011

Religious affiliation in the United States since 1910: The long, steady decline of Mainline Protestantism

On Thursday, I referenced the dramatic decline in Mainline Protestantism over the past century. Here's...

November 04, 2011

Surveying Religion in Asian America

While attending college, I occasionally participated in a largely Korean evangelical Protestant campus group that...

November 03, 2011

Did the Religious Right Lose 10 Million Christians?

In the 1990s, a seismic shift occurred in religious America. During that period, the percentage...

November 02, 2011

Moving Forward the Science & Religion Debate

As a graduate student, I remember reading Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Faith and...

November 01, 2011

5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds

I'm a sucker for maps, and this is one of my favorites. It charts the...

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 30, 2011

Heard in the Hallways at SSSR

I just returned from the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of...

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 27, 2011

Why It’s Difficult to Derive Political Affiliation from the Bible or Why I’m a “Political Agnostic”

With presidential elections coming up, we’ll hear a lot more about every aspect of politics,...

October 26, 2011

The Media and Research on Religion

Well, it looks like there is a ranking for everything. A USA today report recently...

October 25, 2011

St. Thomas Aquinas’ Prayer for Scholars

Ineffable Creator, You who are the true source of life and wisdom and the Principle...

October 24, 2011

Here’s to Bad Divorces?

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

October 22, 2011

A Christian Economist’s Response to Occupy Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street protest has dominated the news over the past month, and it's...

October 21, 2011

Religion and Support for Capital Punishment: Contrasting Leaders and Laity

In recent months significant attention was paid to the execution of Troy Davis – attention...

October 20, 2011

Is Mormonism a Cult? Not Now (But It Used to Be).

With Mitt Romney making a run for a presidency, people are thinking about his religious...

October 19, 2011

What Do We Pray For?

Recently I was talking with a colleague about how to interpret a survey item on...

October 18, 2011

Steven Colbert on Christian love, deservingness, and politics

As a follow-up to my post last week on Christian love and deservingness, here's a...

October 17, 2011

Shifting evangelical ideas about sex

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

October 15, 2011

Research on religion podcasts

Do you know about Research on Religion podcasts? If not, you should. Anthony Gill, a...

October 14, 2011

Remembering Prophetic Faith in American Politics

Recently, several news outlets have made a modest effort at remembering significant contributors, namely Reverend...

October 13, 2011

The Ring Makes All the Difference, by Glenn Stanton

Here's an interview in Christianity Today with Glenn Stanton on his book 'The Ring Makes...

October 13, 2011

Christian love and deservingness

As I understand the Bible, we're supposed to love others unconditionally. I understand this to...

October 12, 2011

Who is a Convert?

Writing in the Wall Street Journal opinion page on September 16, 2011, Religion News Service...

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 10, 2011

More God, Less Crime… the website

In support of his new book, More God Less Crime, Byron Johnson, of Baylor, has...

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...

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