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June 2017

June 02, 2017

Embedded religion vs. movement religion

I've been reading Kenneth L. Woodward's Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Guilt and shame

There is guilt, the inner torment that comes from doing what is wrong. And there...

May 22, 2017

Americans’ moral beliefs

Gallup has released its latest study of Americans' moral beliefs. Gallup's Values and Beliefs...

May 16, 2017

Believing, behaving, belonging

The Pew Study of religious belief in former Communist countries that we blogged about recently...

May 12, 2017

The religious comeback after Communist atheism

A study by Pew Research shows the massive failure of Soviet atheism. In the 18...

May 04, 2017

Does mainline liberal Protestantism have just 23 years left?

More on the plight of mainline liberal Protestantism. . . . Evangelical scholar Ed Stetzer calculates...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

Education and religion

Does having more education mean being less religious? That has been the conventional wisdom in...

April 24, 2017

Totalitarianism vs. Religion

Some atheists accuse religion of being inherently "totalitarian." But, as sociologist Chandler Rosenberger, points out,...

April 05, 2017

Exploding myths about cohabitation

University of Virginia sociologist Bradford Wilcox has published a study of the effects of cohabitation,...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Does the scientific method apply to psychology?

We've blogged about the problem in the field of psychology that so many of their...

March 30, 2017

U.S. Census won’t ask about LGBT identities

The 2020 Census will not ask people about their sexual orientation or gender identity. An...

March 15, 2017

Are atheists dying out?

An article in Evolutionary Psychological Science looks at the "secularization hypothesis," the assumption that modernity would...

March 07, 2017

Will Islam become the world’s largest religion?

A new study says that Islam will pass Christianity as the world's largest religion by...

February 2017

February 21, 2017

Intersectionality

If you are going to understand and navigate the complexities of oppression, victimhood, and political...

February 17, 2017

Survey finds 2 million non-citizens illegally registered to vote

A 2013 survey of Hispanics in America found that of the 56% who were here...

February 13, 2017

Why is Cedar Rapids so Godless?

Iowa defines the American heartland, with its staunch Midwestern values and rural American virtues. Though its...

February 06, 2017

Pastors have happier marriages, stronger families than usual

Barna Research has published a new study on the problems, challenges, and personal life of...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

“The crowd is untruth”

In our discussion of yesterday's post The Problem with Crowds, Stefan Stackhouse linked to an...

January 18, 2017

Fear of the working class

The editor of a liberal website has written about a plumber he had called to fix...

December 2016

December 12, 2016

A nation of suburbs

Big cities seem to get most of the attention. People debate their merits compared with...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

Clarifying the majority-minority America

We keep hearing that we will soon become a "majority-minority" country in which whites will...

September 2016

September 09, 2016

Americans are still reading books

The death of the book has been greatly exaggerated. A Pew study has found that...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

New study on church-going has surprises

Pew Research has released a new study on church-going, including why people leave, how they...

August 25, 2016

Study challenges LGBT assumptions

Public opinion, government policy, and Supreme Court rulings about LGBT issues has been predicated on...

August 22, 2016

Why the LA Times poll differs from the others

Most polls show Donald Trump losing big time, especially in the crucial battleground states. But...

August 17, 2016

Morality as politics

The Pew Research Center has conducted a study finding that 64% of church goers heard...

August 03, 2016

Young men living the dream

Research shows that young men 18-30 are more likely to be living with their parents...

June 2016

June 16, 2016

Data on conservatives being psychotic actually referred to liberals!

Remember the study, still cited by liberals, that found that a correlation between "psychoticism" and...

June 15, 2016

New study of Americans’ moral beliefs

Gallup has released a new study of Americans' moral beliefs, and it's full of surprises...

June 13, 2016

Millennials and vocation

Barna has done a study of the millennial generation's attitude towards work. Most do not...