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August 2014

August 04, 2014

Intolerant of the Intolerant? No, Just Intolerant

Okay, I admit that I am a big fan of comic superheros. I have been...

July 2014

July 10, 2014

Greater Acceptance, Persisting Antipathy: 50 Years of Religious Change

by Jerry Park, Joshua Tom, and Brita Andercheck, The following is a re-post in honor...

July 09, 2014

How to Apologize

I admit that a lot of research in academic journals does not really help the...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Shame on you Bowdoin College

Next year I anticipate having a book out that will look more deeply into the...

June 11, 2014

Advice for Young Christian Academics

One of my young academic Christian facebook friends recently announced that he was going start...

June 01, 2014

Are Christians Stupid?

Stereotypes. We all use them even though we are told not to do so. In...

May 2014

May 22, 2014

Keeping (and Losing) Faith, the Asian American Way (Repost)

Originally posted on AAPI Voices May 22, 2014 Keeping (and Losing) Faith, the Asian American...

May 22, 2014

Women in Leadership National Study: A First Glance

In the past few years, a number of different empirical studies have come out highlighting...

May 13, 2014

Who is Listening to You? – The Lesson of Donald Sterling

Donald Sterling is a pig. That is clearly not a controversial statement given all that...

May 05, 2014

Symbolic Hostility as an Explanation of Anti-Christian Expression

I recently came across an article about a lawsuit based on anti-Christian discrimination. I do...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

How Christians Vary in their Awareness of God

The SoulPulse study has taken two years and a bunch of money to develop, and...

April 18, 2014

Was Opposition to Interracial Marriage Motivated by Christianity?

A good deal of the controversy over same-sex marriage has been linked to the comparison...

April 03, 2014

Revisiting “Compromising Scholarship”

Three years ago my book Compromising Scholarship was published. To the best of my knowledge,...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

God is Not Dead and This is Not What Anti-Christian Animosity Looks Like

It is quite dangerous to talk about a movie one has not yet seen. Indeed...

March 16, 2014

Media Matters but Not as Much as Propaganda

Well quite a bit has happened since my last blog. This month I had an...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Loneliness and Our Social Brain

How is your happiness project at Yale going? a friend recently asked. It's going great!...

February 24, 2014

Academic Bias? – Does it Affect Business Professors?

My previous book, Compromising Scholarship, documented the willingness of academics to engage in political and...

February 19, 2014

Small Acts of Love Go a Long Way

Guest Blog by Christina Bradley. Yale Class of 2016. Member of the Calhoun Happiness Project....

February 17, 2014

Economic Choices, the Media, and Racism

At the end of 2013, I wrote a blog post entitled, “The Problem with Giving...

February 13, 2014

Height and Romance

A few years ago when I was still single I had my good friend Michael...

February 06, 2014

Atonement and Resilience

How can the concept of resilience be applied to atonement between victims of crime and...

February 04, 2014

Why Did Grant Walk?

It has been a long time since I have watched any award shows. To be...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Let’s Boycott – Not

About a week ago I decided to pick up a little lunch. I was trying...

January 17, 2014

Googling Tradition

Dear Google: Can you tell me how to put on a mantilla? My stifled laugh...

January 12, 2014

Dehumanizing Christians Part 4 – Ethnocentrism instead of Authoritarianism

For those of you who are reading this blog series for the first time let...

January 06, 2014

Dehumanizing Christians Part 3 – The Vindictive Nature of Christian Dehumanization

Discussions about authoritarianism are not merely about the use of authority figures to take away...

January 03, 2014

Surviving and Thriving in the Northeast Winter

Canadian polar bears taught me an important lesson: layers keep you warm when it’s freezing...

January 03, 2014

The Top 11 from ’13: Academic Journals of Sociological Research on Religion

  It’s 2014 and time for an annual review of the religion-related articles in the...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

Dehumanizing Christians Part 2 – Who Dehumanizes Christians?

In the first part of my series I examined the dehumanization of Christians as a critique...

December 26, 2013

In Search of Male Role Models

During the Christmas and New Years season, I end up reflecting more than normal about...

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