Bradley Wright's Blog

On Wednesday I realize a long-standing intention... I start a yoga-spin class offered at our local community center. It's 45 minutes of ...

This next week I will present a short series on church attendance rates among Christians. I.e., how often do self-described Christians/evan...

This last week I created an online survey using surveymonkey.com. Wow! Where have you been all my life? (Or, at least career). It was actua...

My brother John , heretofore referred to as my all-time favorite brother (MAFB), has invited me out to Southern California in May for sever...

Well, we get rid of the television next week, as per our 3 months on- 9 months off schedule . With the UConn Huskies out of the NCAA tourney...

This may be one of those posts where the title is more interesting than the text... Some days I think that everyone has about the same level...

Here's a clip of Dewey, from Malcolm in the Middle, explaining his views on God. Hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi3YupW6JJQ

Our marriage has proven to be a sixteen-year failed experiment in... responsible credit card use. There is something about being able to hav...

I have recently undertaken a study of Christian deconversion--why do people leave Christianity. In reading about the topic, I came across an...

It's perhaps human nature to be entertained (sometimes) by other people's misfortune. We slow down to look at car accidents, laugh a...

I have various regrets in life--here's one of them. Growing up we would visit my grandparents who lived in Bozeman, Montana. Big house, ...

This morning I had the chance to talk by phone with a class of students at Wheaton College--a Christian college in Illinois. Their professor...

Some time ago, I was having lunch with a good friend. The conversation turned to Christianity, and he asked me what I thought of it. I mumbl...

My two sons, age 13 and 6 (two dissertations between them!), have entered a phase where they are obsessed with making sure that the other on...

The above diagram, from WellingtonGrey.net , shows a fairly common understanding of religion versus science. It's sort of like the befo...

As you might have figured out from past posts on this blog, I'm into maps. Here's a cool tool for visualizing census data. Tell the ...

I've been blogging for about 100 days now, and I would like to step back and do a little evaluation. Could you give me feedback? As I...

After years of trial and error, my family and I have arrived at a television-management stratergy that works for us. We order cable tv for t...

Did you know that two people independently arrived at the basic assumptions of evolution? Charles Darwin, of course, but also Alfred Russel ...

February 15th was John Frum day , a high holiday in one of the South Pacific's cargo cults. In this cargo cult, adherents wait for the r...