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August 2022

August 15, 2022

National Conservatism and Religion

The document "National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles" seems to suggest an establishment of Christianity...

July 2022

July 28, 2022

The God Gap

Blacks and Hispanics are religiously more like Republicans than white Democrats. As the party becomes...

July 20, 2022

An Islamic Take on LGBTQ Identity

A Muslim woman explains why a Muslim's identity can only be based on religion, not...

June 2022

June 20, 2022

Declining Belief in God

In the 1960s, 98% of Americans believed in God. According to the latest Gallup Poll,...

June 17, 2022

The Religious Right Gives Way to the Nonreligious Right

Progressives have been blaming Christian conservatives for sexism, racism, and the election of Donald Trump....

June 13, 2022

Temptation of the “High IQ Stupid”: Preferring Theory to Reality

Peggy Noonan coins the term "high IQ stupid" for the syndrome of highly-educated people who...

June 01, 2022

Churches as the Biggest Threat to Religion?

We usually assume that threats to Christianity come from the outside--the forces of secularism, postmodernism,...

May 2022

May 16, 2022

“Politics Is Not Supposed to Be Spiritually Fulfilling”

The various critiques of liberal (i.e., freedom-based) democracy that we have been hearing from both...

April 2022

April 06, 2022

What God Do People Believe In?

A new study of American religion has found that 54% of respondents believe in God...

January 2022

January 12, 2022

Faith & Mental Health

A new study shows that having a strong faith is correlated with positive mental health....

January 11, 2022

Defining Being “Spiritual”

Being "religious" involves a set of transcendent beliefs and experiences shared with other people. Being...

January 07, 2022

How Parents Make Their Children Religious (or Not)

The most important factor in whether or not children hold on to their faith and...

December 2021

December 28, 2021

Religion in 2021

Judging by the media and many of its practitioners, religion in 2021 consisted of politics,...

December 03, 2021

What Americans Believe about the Afterlife

For all of our alleged secularism, 83% of Americans believe in life after death. And...

December 02, 2021

What Americans Believe about Suffering

The problem of suffering--how an almighty and loving God could allow so much pain in...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

“The Free Exercise of Religion”

The Constitution forbids the government from prohibiting the "free exercise of religion." That refers to...

October 07, 2021

Right-Wing Atheists

When some Christians get involved in conservative politics, they are often surprised to find themselves...

September 2021

September 01, 2021

Another Social Science Miss: Non-Members Still Go to Church

A recent Gallup poll found that church membership in the United States has fallen to...

August 2021

August 13, 2021

A Religion That Tried Too Hard to Blend into the Culture

A historian writes about the attempt of some Buddhists in the Soviet Union to change...

July 2021

July 30, 2021

Panpsychism and the Scientific Search for Consciousness

Scientists are finding it impossible to find a physical cause for consciousness. So instead of...

July 15, 2021

Surprising New Religion Data

New research on religion in America has some surprising findings that go against the conventional...

June 2021

June 18, 2021

The Invisible–That Is, Non-Existent–Sculpture

We now have the work of art that defines our age, just as Michelangelo's David...

June 17, 2021

Religion as “Communal Solidarity” or “Personal Identity”?

Research about how parents transmit their faith to their children raises the question: Is religion...

June 07, 2021

Deep Worldview

Christians often use "worldview" in confused ways. Lutherans look at the concept differently than the...

June 04, 2021

Biblical Worldview Crisis?

A study has found that only 6% of Americans and only 9% of Christians have...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Don’t Know, Don’t Care, Don’t Believe

According to new research, 43% of Millennials (aged 18-36), "don't know, don't care, or don't...

May 18, 2021

Churches Decline with Privilege, Grow With Pluralism & Persecution

When Christianity has the active support of the government, it declines. When it faces competition...

May 07, 2021

The Opium of the People

Karl Marx said that religion is the opium of the people, but by that he...

April 2021

April 22, 2021

Why the New Edition of “Spirituality of the Cross” Is Needed Today

To explain why I think this new edition of my book "Spirituality of the Cross"...

April 21, 2021

The New, Improved Edition of “Spirituality of the Cross”

The third edition of my most popular and impactful book, "Spirituality of the Cross," has...