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October 2021

October 13, 2021

Research on Sermons

Because of the COVID restrictions, thousands of thousands of sermons from all kinds and sizes...

October 05, 2021

What Lots of Biden & Trump Supporters Agree On: Destroying the Country

A study of our political polarization finds quite a bit of agreement between Biden supporters...

October 04, 2021

Americans Who Want Authoritarianism

The study that found that a third of Americans would be fine with a strong...

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 19, 2021

Vaccine Hesitancy

The biggest categories of the vaccine hesitant are not evangelicals but Nones, not Trump supporters...

August 17, 2021

“Multi-Species Families”

Having pets is a good thing, bringing out valuable emotions and instincts in human beings....

July 2021

July 23, 2021

The Left’s Culture War

Conservatives and Christians are associated with the culture wars. But the most aggressive culture warriors...

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 30, 2021

Teaching Math According to Critical Race Theory (Part II)

So what is the difference between racist and anti-racist math?

June 29, 2021

Teaching Math According to Critical Race Theory (Part I)

A workbook instructing teachers how to incorporate critical race theory in the teaching of mathematics...

June 28, 2021

“White Supremacy” Characteristics (according to a Math book)

A workbook used to show math teachers how to teach mathematics in light of critical...

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 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 13, 2021

The Real Reason Why Scandinavians Are So Happy

For the fourth year in a row, Finland is ranked as the happiest country in...

May 04, 2021

Progressive Christians are More Political than Conservative Christians

We keep hearing that Christianity has been sullied by politics. That complaint usually is against...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

What Information Do We Find Plausible?

Why we believe certain things is a fascinating question. Why we don't believe in certain...

April 20, 2021

Evangelical Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus

Today even non-Christians are calling themselves "evangelical."

April 16, 2021

No, Religious Conservatives Didn’t Cause Church Membership Decline

With Church membership in America declining below 50%, many observers are blaming evangelicals' political involvement...

March 2021

March 15, 2021

Why Won’t Evangelicals Get the Vaccine?

Evangelicals have the highest rate of hesitancy to get the COVID vaccine than any other...

March 01, 2021

Evangelicals as “the Other”

A prominent social scientist says that Evangelicals are so repugnant to the social elite that...

December 2020

December 21, 2020

We Americans Don’t Trust Each Other

Social trust is the glue that holds society together. But Americans trust each other less...

December 10, 2020

How Blacks and Immigrants Will Help the Conservative Cause

Blacks, Hispanics, and other immigrants are more conservative and more religious, on the whole, than...

November 2020

November 30, 2020

The Scientist Who Calculates the End of America

A scientist has devised a mathematical formula for calculating when nations and civilizations fall apart. ...

November 20, 2020

The USA is 1/3 Religious, 1/3 Secularist, & 1/3 in between

When it comes to religion, the best way to describe the nation overall is that...

November 16, 2020

Women’s Power

According to a Swedish study of Americans, both men and women agreed that men had...

November 05, 2020

On the Wrongness of Polls

Once again, the polls were spectacularly wrong in predicting the recent election. Perhaps the problem...

October 2020

October 14, 2020

Not Relativism but “Myside Bias”

The reason we can't agree with or persuade each other is not relativism, irrationalism, or...

August 2020

August 07, 2020

Why the Murder Rate Is Soaring

The murder rate is up 24% so far this year, with 3,612 killings. And yet,...