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March 2013

March 11, 2013

Roman Bracketology

So it all comes down to this week, for Catholics. And in a at least...

March 07, 2013

Trends in the Religious Unaffiliated, the “Nones,” by Age

Last week I posted a figure showing the rise of the religiously unaffiliated over the...

March 04, 2013

Shining like the Sun

Although there are perhaps more timely subjects to tackle here this week, including the dueling,...

March 02, 2013

Embracing Tolerance and Rejecting Narrow-Mindedness

I decided to take a page from Mark Regnerus and look at some old data...

March 01, 2013

The Three Segregations and Asian America

A recurring conversation in sociology is that of segregation. While we are decades away from...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

The Rise of the Unaffiliated–The Religious Nones

One of the big changes in American religion over the past several decades has been...

February 26, 2013

Being Honest about Inequality

Last week, my daughter brought home a class worksheet where she had noted that Barack...

February 22, 2013

Gender, Culture and Suicide in Asia and Asian America

Fellow blogger and sociologist Mark Regnerus’ recent post on suicide rates and ideation prompted me...

February 20, 2013

Positive Sociology in the Classroom

My recent visit with Jane Dutton of the University of Michigan's Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship...

February 18, 2013

The Suicide Rate has Risen: What Predicts Suicide Ideation?

With the news of troubled country music star Mindy McCready’s death from suicide, a month...

February 17, 2013

Obama, Bush and Drones

I remember learning the details about the killing of Osama bin Laden. At the time...

February 16, 2013

Asian Americans and Interfaith Marriages

It’s a festive time of year for Asian Americans. As many readers know, the Lunar...

February 14, 2013

Does Christianity, Like Not Eating a Marshmallow, Make You More Successful in Life?

A longstanding theme in the sociology of religion is how religious beliefs and practices affect...

February 12, 2013

How Does One Get Invited on a “Monastic Vacation?”

As a follow up to my recent post about my Monastic Vacation at a 13th-century...

February 12, 2013

CS Lewis, Lent and Bodies

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Although many Protestants do not celebrate...

February 11, 2013

Thank you, Papa: Comments on a Unique Papal Succession

Lots of us are thinking and writing with an unusual mixture of heavy heart and...

February 08, 2013

Interdisciplinary Science Research – the Japanese Way

While attending the American Sociological Association annual meetings are a humbling experience when you hear...

February 07, 2013

The Power of a Simple Plan, But Should Christians Do It?

In the 1990s, a sociology psychologist named Peter Gollwitzer conducted a fabulously useful experiment. He...

February 06, 2013

My Happiness Project

When I first started read Gretchen Rubin’s best-selling book, The Happiness Project, I thought, “Wow,...

February 04, 2013

Porn Use and Support for Same-Sex Marriage, Part II

Although I didn't blog on it here, back in December I published a piece about...

February 04, 2013

Reflections on the new F-Word

I spent the weekend in South Texas at a generous friend’s ranch. It just happens...

February 02, 2013

A Fast Life

The recent blog post by Margarita Mooney on suffering and flourishing got me to thinking....

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Hang in There, Mom and Dad

I’ve been crunching NFSS numbers again, mostly assessing the sexual and relationship behaviors of young...

January 24, 2013

The Difficulties of Racially-Integrated Churches

I have been reading the sociological literature on race and religion, especially multiracial churches. A...

January 22, 2013

When Growth is Bad

The Hastert Center for Economics, Government, And Public Policy at Wheaton College hosted an event...

January 19, 2013

MLK and Creative Maladjustment

While still recovering from the flu (yes I still got it despite getting a shot...

January 17, 2013

Do Students Remember Anything They Learn in Class? Probably Not, So….

In preparing for another semester, I am struck yet again by how very little I...

January 16, 2013

Can Suffering Lead to Flourishing?

Can bad things really lead to good things? Is it possible for suffering to lead...

January 15, 2013

What Good are “Crippled” Children?

I commonly teach an introductory sociology course each semester to approximately 200 students. I run...

January 11, 2013

The Top 11 from ’12: an Exceptional Year of Religious Research Studies in Sociology

Last year around this time I introduced readers to the way sociologists rank the...

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