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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Feta cheese

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Tonight's dinner table discussion (while eating a greek dish): Does feta cheese come from the milk of sheep, goats, or chickens.
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the fear

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As I sat at my office this afternoon, enjoying the serene view of summer out my window, what should I hear today but an air raid siren. Of c...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

No parsimony in the classroom

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Sometimes I come away from teaching pumped up about teaching college students. So much potential with these young minds. Other times I'm...
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Monday, May 28, 2007

Code orange

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When I flew out to SoCal last week, I heard a strange thing over the loudspeakers at the airports. A serious voice announced that the Homel...
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Friday, May 25, 2007

Christians and pornography

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(Post 6 in a series) In this series, I am going through various sexual behaviors and examining rates of Christians' participation in th...
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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Back to respectability

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Well, in SoCal, I had several long talks with my brother. In one of them, I told him various things about our lives and family and typical b...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Christians and promuscious sexual behavior

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(Post 5 in a series) In the last several posts, I looked at pretty standard measures of sexual behavior--premarital and extramarital sex. He...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

John Wright, man of action

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Here's a picture of my brother launching a couple of days ago. I believe that he was sipping a martini when the call came in from a gov...
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Monday, May 21, 2007

We're #1

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U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A I'm doing my part to keep the USA #1! I've been pounding In-N-Out and Mexican food all week. Those bloggers w...
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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Religion and infidelity in Kenya

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Here's an article sent to me by Ben in Nairobi. (Thanks Ben). It demonstrates how issues of religion and sex vary widely across cultures...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Dispatch from SoCal

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Well, somehow I've ended up at an all-inclusive resort... my brother is doing/has everything. We went for a bicycle ride along the coast...
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Friday, May 18, 2007

Christians and rates of premarital sex

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(Post 4 in a series) Having looked at extramarital sex in the past few posts, I now turn to its younger sibling, premarital sex. Now, this i...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Gone hang gliding

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Today I am flying to Southern California to spend four days hang gliding with my brother. He is flying me out with his frequent flyer miles,...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Extramarital sex by religion and gender

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(Post #3 in a series) Here are data from the General Social Survey regarding extramarital sex by religious affliation. Again, the question i...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Christians' rates of extramarital sex

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(Post 2 in a series) Let's start with a important distinction: Extramarital sex is very different than extra marital sex ;-). One is a...
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Monday, May 14, 2007

Sex and Christianity: Prevailing Beliefs

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(Post #1 in a series) Here is my philosophy on sex and Christianity (paraphrasing an old commercial for Reese's cups): They are two grea...
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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Quotation about love

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From a recent sermon by Ben Dubow : "Love God, love others, and everything else is just the details." Cool, huh? Puts things in to...
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Saturday, May 12, 2007

A new incentive for surveys?

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A chronic problems in surveys is people declining to participate in them. In a recent church survey that I conducted, I ask what can be don...
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Friday, May 11, 2007

Confessions of an empiricist III

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My empirical streak runs to religion too, for some of the major turning points in my life toward God have come as personal experiences. Fore...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Sex and Christianity: The Series

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On Monday I start a new series on Sex and Christianity. Rather than give practical advice (on either), I will present data from various sou...
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