Bradley Wright's Blog

I gave a midterm last night, which got me thinking again about how to construct a test. Above are three principles that I try to incorporate...

It seems that if we use other people's photographs, we should reference them just as we would if we were to use their words in a quotati...

As someone who studies society and is interested in matters of religious faith, I get irritated by what I call moral nostalgia . I'm not...

As a way of demonstrating the profound inequality that exists in our world, Google has put together a powerful site. Google's gapminder ...

This video demonstrates a hilarious (and probably illegal) way of feeding homeless people.

A fun thing about being at UConn is following the basketball teams. I particular enjoy Geno Auriemma , the coach of the women's basketb...

For whatever reason I get stuck at the same point with many of my papers--right before a submission (or resubmission) to a journal. From a r...

In Making Room for Life , Randy Frazee makes the case for a rather ambitious evening activity—the two-hour family meal, seven days a week. ...

My six-year-old and I went out last night to take pictures, and we ended up with this shot of a tree at sunset. Kind of pretty, huh?

I recently posted about Christians' misuse of statistics . A comment on it, by Ryan King, told of the U.S. Attorney General using fabri...

I have started reading, and enjoying, Eszter Hargittai's blog . She is a sociologist at Northwestern who studies the internet. (What a ...

I've been posting recently about personal productivity . Along those lines, I've come across an interesting series by Craig Groesche...

In writing about stereotypes of Christians last week, I read through various items about Christian creationists: People who reject the idea...

In a recent issue of Christianity Today’s magazine Books & Culture, Christian Smith , sociologist at Notre Dame, discusses the misuse of...

This week's sign that I am not a spiritual giant: Lent is the period of time between Ash Wednesday and Easter during which many Christi...

I just finished reading Making Room for Life , by Randy Frazee (thanks Ben & Vince for the recommendation), and Frazee suggests and inte...

As a way of spending time with my 13-year-old son, I am learning to play video games on his X-box. I've never been much interested in vi...

A week ago I posted about getting my work done in five hours a day . Here's my biggest fear with that approach (seriously!): From indexe...

As a follow-up on yesterday's post, here is another example Christian-slandering. This one comes courtesy of New York Times critic Steph...

Cruising through Digg.com , I came across this video entitled: "Why Evangelicals are Scary." (A clip of Christians speaking ou...