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April 2024

April 01, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/1/24

Church of England group wanting to deconvert African Christians; The end of the internet as...

March 2024

March 25, 2024

Holy Week Miscellany, 3/25/24

Only 8% of white evangelicals approve of Christian Nationalism; what's good about American evangelicalism; and...

March 07, 2024

The Need for Chaos

We've been blogging about different political theories. Here is another one: Political Nihilism. As many...

March 06, 2024

We Contemporary Westerners Are WEIRD

An anthopologist says that many of our contemporary assumptions are WEIRD; that is, Western, Educated,...

February 2024

February 23, 2024

What Do the Nones Believe?

Nearly two-thirds of the Nones are actually "nothing in particulars." And there is a difference,...

February 06, 2024

The Rich Are Different from You and Me

A Rasmussen poll surveyed America's "elite," constituting 1% of the population, and compared their views...

January 2024

January 12, 2024

“Preference Falsification” and Woke Ideology

Social pressure often makes people pretend to believe and desire things, when actually they don't. ...

December 2023

December 12, 2023

On the Radicals’ Takeover of Higher Education

The open support of Islamic terrorism and the rebirth of old-school anti-semitism--which goes beyond opposition...

December 07, 2023

Non-Institutional Christianity?

Since religion is natural to human beings, it will persist even after formal religious institutions...

October 2023

October 19, 2023

Luxury Beliefs

Traditionally, elites signaled their social status by means of their possessions. But today even the...

October 06, 2023

When America Was Even Less Religious

As we worry about the decline in church affiliation, a historian offers some important perspective....

September 2023

September 28, 2023

Why Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Seminars Don’t Work

The approach DEI seminars typically use is first to make participants feel guilty by exposing...

September 07, 2023

Secularization Is Due to CHILDREN’s Lack of Faith

In discussing "dechurching," Lyman Stone looks at the data and comes to a startling conclusion: ...

September 05, 2023

Non-Worshipping Evangelicals

Zondervan has just released what promises to be an important book, "The Great Dechurching." In...

September 01, 2023

Churches Used to Hold Society Together

Churches used to help hold society together, a place for people of different social classes...

July 2023

July 31, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 7/31/23

Mocking a survey is defined as fascism, a tale of two Supreme Courts, and a...

July 21, 2023

DISCUSSION: Americans Distrust Nearly All of Their Institutions

Americans have lost faith in virtually all of their institutions. A Gallup Poll has been...

July 11, 2023

Marriage and Culture

The pastoral care journal "Seelsorger" asked me to write an article about marriage and culture....

June 2023

June 19, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 6/19/23

Not affirming your kid's gender choice as child abuse, polarization despite agreement, and prospects for...

June 14, 2023

The Percentage of “Social Conservatives” Surges

Social conservatives often feel defeated. And yet a recent Gallup Poll shows that the percentage...

June 02, 2023

New Religion Statistics & Anti-Institutionalism

The General Social Survey--the "gold standard" of polls--is out for 2022, giving updated statistics for...

May 2023

May 10, 2023

Social Contagion

Parents have long worried about the effects of "peer pressure" on their children. Experts call...

May 09, 2023

Are One Out of Four High Schoolers LGBTQ+?

A study has found that about one out of every four high school students (26%) ...

May 04, 2023

Traits of Paganism

A rabbi sees a reversion to paganism in contemporary thought and culture. He looks at...

April 2023

April 18, 2023

Predictions of Christianity’s Comeback

What with the Nones, declining church membership, declining church attendance, and consistently bad PR, Christianity...

April 13, 2023

Racism and the White Working Class

The white working class is often assumed to be a hotbed of racism. And yet...

April 05, 2023

“American Values” Are in Decline

Values once associated with Americans and American culture--such as the importance of patriotism, religion, hard...

March 2023

March 22, 2023

Americans vs. Both Political Parties

Republicans tend to be both social and economic conservatives. Democrats tend to be both social...

February 2023

February 09, 2023

The High Tech Pronatalists

We used to be told that overpopulation will destroy civilization. Now that we are seeing...

February 07, 2023

The State of the Union According to Americans

President Biden will deliver his 2023 State of the Union Address tonight. So it is...