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September 2012

September 17, 2012

Peace in Your Hearts, Peace in Your Actions

As I read today about Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Lebanon in which, not surprisingly,...

September 15, 2012

What Motivates Cultural Progressives – Part 2

Two weeks ago I started this series based on my latest book entitled What Motivates...

September 14, 2012

Go to Church, Skip Your Bible? Religious Incongruity in the News

As a Christian trained in sociology it's sometimes difficult to "leave the statistics alone" when...

September 13, 2012

Social Similarity & Faith

I've been thinking a lot about social similarity lately, and maybe you have too (uh,...

September 12, 2012

Are Men and Women Really Different?

Does part of self-actualization or self-knowledge have to do with pondering, at least every once...

September 08, 2012

The Promise and Peril of Christian Solidarity: Lynching in the Christian South

In between teaching and professional conferences, I have recently embarked on a few trips to...

September 05, 2012

Why do Americans Celebrate Labor Day in September and Not May?

This post is part of a series on personhood. When I first found out that...

September 04, 2012

Parades and Protests

In cities across America, people marched in parades to celebrate Labor Day yesterday. At the...

September 01, 2012

What Motivates Cultural Progressives – Part 1

It is election time again. Once every four years we go through our ritual of...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Update on the Regnerus situation

Here's an update on the brouhaha over Mark Regnerus' study. As it should have, the complaint against...

August 29, 2012

Sociological Lessons from the Game of Life

Recently, while on vacation at the beach with my family, I encountered my sister-in-law, niece...

August 25, 2012

Panda Express(ions): Commodifying and Constructing Pan-Asian-ness

With the start of the new semester comes the renewed search for interesting examples to...

August 22, 2012

“Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty”

Last week, I organized a panel at the Association for the Sociology of Religion...

August 21, 2012

Human Dignity and Immigration Reform

Just days ago, on August 15th, immigration policy in the United States experienced a significant...

August 20, 2012

Ideals and Realities of Religious Tolerance

The recent event involving the killing of Sikh Americans in their house of worship (gurdwara)...

August 18, 2012

Stupid is as Stupid Does

Stupid is as Stupid does. I have to thank Forrest Gump for that line. Over...

August 15, 2012

The Acting Person is both Free and Social

Part 3 in a Series on Personhood My previous posts examined the concept of the...

August 08, 2012

What is Personalism? A Rectification of Individualism and Collectivism

Part 2 in a Series on Personhood. As a graduate student in sociology looking for...

August 07, 2012

The Cost of Vocation

As the summer months come to a close, students and teachers alike are gearing up...

August 05, 2012

The Shifting Educational Terrain

We get comfortable with the way things have been. Change does not come easy...

August 03, 2012

Most Mainline or Most Evangelical? Miscounts and Religious County Membership

In the race to produce relevant researched stories it’s important to know that error sometimes...

August 01, 2012

More than Individuals: How Personalism Influences Social Theory and Research

Part 1 in a Series on Personhood. On July 1, 2012, I began a new...

July 2012

July 27, 2012

New Questions About Asian American Buddhists

Since 1965, the Buddhist population has grown considerably as a result of increased immigration from...

July 26, 2012

The Case of Mark Regnerus: An Academic Auto-da-Fé

Here's an insightful op-ed piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Christian Smith, of...

July 25, 2012

What is “It All” That Slaughter Says Women Can’t Have?

Part 3 in a series on Women at Work. Anne Marie Slaugther's article in the...

July 20, 2012

Building a Better Asian American Survey

As some readers may know, the 2nd report on religion in Asian America was released....

July 17, 2012

The context of religion

I had the privilege to spend the last week at the 5th Latin American Conference...

July 15, 2012

The Left’s War on Science

Chris Moody’s book “The Republican War on Science” took President George W. Bush to task...

July 13, 2012

Socializing Character Through Popular Comic Books

Fill in the blank: “With great power _______” If you know the answer to this,...

July 12, 2012

Map of religion in the United States

Here's an interesting map that shows the largest religious groups for each county in the...

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