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January 2013

January 09, 2013
Ever since I met Martin Seligman, one of the founders of positive psychology, at his...
January 05, 2013
Like many people I am still attempting to make sense of the Newtown shootings. The...
January 02, 2013
"Would you please tell me how you got invited to stay in a 13th monastery...

December 2012

December 31, 2012
About every 3 years or so, a collegiate parachurch ministry called Intervarsity Christian Fellowship holds...
December 27, 2012
In preparing my classes for this coming semester, I reviewed one of the best known...
December 25, 2012
From Rome, December 25th, 2012 Have you ever wondered what Christmas liturgy at the St....
December 22, 2012
  “…claims that Asian American students were as well qualified but less likely than whites...
December 15, 2012
          Recently much has been made at this time of year of what has been...
December 11, 2012
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the stereotypes that we place on one another,...
December 07, 2012
Last spring UCLA was the site of a YouTube rant by a former student who...
December 06, 2012
Apparently yes, if it is spent correctly. I wonder if this makes routine tithing as...
December 03, 2012
About a week ago a curious story began to make the media rounds. Apparently porn...
December 01, 2012
In the spirit of bringing up politically incorrect research for discussion allow me to introduce...

November 2012

November 30, 2012
Much of the material I teach on racial, gender, and class inequalities is US based,...
November 29, 2012
As Margarita Mooney so ably put forth in a previous post, Sociology is in need...
November 27, 2012
I enjoyed celebrating Thanksgiving with my family. I’m thankful for the lives of my three...
November 26, 2012
OK, I’ve been at it again, meaning that I’ve been exploring associations between various measures...
November 23, 2012
This past summer I lost a friend at church and a family friend to terminal...
November 22, 2012
One of the joys of being an academic is reading in a wide range of...
November 21, 2012
Would you consider donating money to help personal friends of mine in Santiago de Cuba...
November 19, 2012
Yet again the media is alive with speculation about why men in positions of power...
November 18, 2012
Sometimes you fight battles you know you are not going to win. You fight them...
November 16, 2012
In a recent email interchange, Brad Wright suggested we go out to celebrate our 400...
November 15, 2012
Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals is a wonderfully interesting book by Heidi Grant...
November 14, 2012
According to the women Susan Crawford Sullivan interviewed for Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in...
November 12, 2012
Imagine if some evangelical social scientists set out 20 years ago to document how the...
November 11, 2012
A little more than a week ago, the molecular geneticist and Buddhist monk Matthieu Richard...
November 07, 2012
On this day 16 years ago—November 7, 1996—I walked in to my office at the...
November 06, 2012
In my last post, I noted how much I’ve appreciated the chance to read through...
November 05, 2012
It’s election week, and we’re inundated with polls, predictions, and predilections, so I’ll keep this...
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