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August 2015

August 17, 2015

Myths of Christianophobia Part 2 – It is about Persecution

This is my second post dealing with the myths surrounding Christianophobia. In my last blog,...

August 10, 2015

Myths of Christianophobia Part 1 – It does not exist

This post will start a series concerning the topic I have been studying the last...

July 2015

July 11, 2015

The Silencing of the Christians

A couple of years ago I was approached with an opportunity to collect some data...

June 2015

June 28, 2015

Crunchy Christians

I am a fortunate man to be married to a woman with whom I am...

June 18, 2015

Racism, Not Christianophobia

This morning I woke up to the news of the horrible shooting in South Carolina....

June 07, 2015

Does President Obama Hate Conservative Christians?

I tend to take people at their word. I also make what I see as...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Critically Healthy

Over the past few years I have realized an unspoken challenge to being an academic...

May 12, 2015

Education Dogma

Dogma is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a belief or set of beliefs that is accepted...

April 2015

April 02, 2015

It is time to Retire the Term “Bible-Thumper”

I am still deciding what to think about the Indiana RFRA law. But one of...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

Confirmation Bias: Everybody’s Problem

In a recent study, researchers found that both conservatives and progressives tend to have less...

March 06, 2015

One Step Forward, but Now What?

Repost from Patheos Public Square: March From Selma In 1965, participants of the American Civil...

February 2015

February 21, 2015

What Tenure at Marquette University Means?

According to a recent article, Marquette University is on the verge of stripping Professor John...

February 10, 2015

The Nature and Consequences of Christianophobia

Okay. I know I am being lazy in not writing a full blog entry. But...

February 05, 2015

Saving the Market: Harry Potter, Churches, and Globalization

Harry Potter fans made the news recently for their political victory. Due to four years...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

What Vanderbilt Says, What Vanderbilt Does

Most Christians know about what has been called the “5 love languages.” If you have...

January 13, 2015

Charlie Hebdo’s Cartoons, Piss Christ and the Associated Press

The tragedy of Charlie Hebdo produced a generous amount of commentary. If I were to...

January 11, 2015

Jonathan Gruber knows what is best for us.

Usually people do not pay attention when academics talk. Well, students in our classes may...

December 2014

December 21, 2014

Disrespect, Intimidation and Prejudice at the University of Colorado

Sometimes social scientists unexpectedly find out about data that was collected for reasons other than...

December 13, 2014

Ferguson, Staten Island, What’s Next?

So when will we have our next racial controversy? We know that there will be...

December 04, 2014

If Physicians Acted Like Sociologists (or, Why We’re Mostly Irrelevant)

Imagine a physician seeing a patient who has been diagnosed with cancer. If that physician...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

Christianophobia in the United States – Part 3

This is the third and final entry of the blog series about my latest book...

November 19, 2014

Christianophobia in the United States – Part 2

This is the second entry of the blog series about my latest book – So...

November 01, 2014

Christianophobia in the United States – Part 1

Over the next three blog entries, I am going to discuss the content of my...

October 2014

October 16, 2014

My Two Takes on Houston and the Subpoenas

If you have any number of conservative Christian facebook friends then your newsfeed has probably...

October 05, 2014

Real Cultural Diversity

Since one of my areas of specialization is race/ethnicity, an important issue I address in...

September 2014

September 16, 2014

DeJure and DeFacto Religious Discrimination

One of the advantages of blog writing is that at times I can follow up...

September 11, 2014

Yale Makes: The Calhoun Happiness Project Launches its First Little Platoon

Calhoun Happiness Project member, Cameron Yick '2017, has launched a new student group called Yale...

September 10, 2014

Marti and Ganiel’s The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity

The Emerging Church Movement (ECM) is making a big splash in American Christianity, and so...

August 2014

August 21, 2014

The Righteous Mind and My Emotional Doubt

When I was in graduate school, I read Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolution....

August 19, 2014

The Personal and the Political: Violence in our World

In talking about one of the recent crises in our world, a friend commented that...

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