Bradley Wright's Blog

Here's a picture I took a couple of years ago. It's a cold, blustery day today, so I thought it would be fun to remember what sprin...

Dimensions of Religiosity (Post 4 in an 11-part series) In terms of what can be improved with the Reveal Study, I'm starting with what i...

What Reveal Does Well (Post 3 in an 11-part series) Let's start with some things that Reveal does well: First, they are collecting data ...

A dried bush at sunrise...

A summary of Reveal (Post 2 in an 11-part series) Data The data examined in Reveal come from about 5,000 e-mailed surveys filled out by memb...

(Post 1 in an 11-part series) Willow Creek Church has recently conducted a several years worth of survey research about their church and va...

Here's a picture of Floyd walking home from a friend's house. Yes, those are the real colors of the trees.

From our front yard...

Every once in awhile sociologists go bad—but for a good purpose. We call it a “breaching experiment.” There are some things in life that eve...

I was talking to a student during office hours, and I asked her what she was studying. Her answer: Two majors (Anthro and Soci) and two mino...

Our neighbor's maple tree turns deep red for a few weeks this time of year...

Wow, must be a dangerous book ...

Well, I suppose it was bound to happen. There is now an open-source religion, Yoism . From wikipedia: it represents "a continuous proc...

I'm not sure that it's entirely accurate, but it's funny.

Here's the dress code for conservative Bob Jones University. My only question: Do faculty have to wear shoes? Oh, the power of peer pres...

Last night I got bored handing out candy, so I went to the pantry to grab some other goodies. Among the non-candy goods I gave out: A box of...

Here's a story about Karl Marx. Dermatologists now think he had some skin disease, and they speculate that it affected both his li...

I'm having a hard time with words today, so here's a picture I took of a town celebration at the end of summer.

He had driven half the night From far down San Joaquin Through Mariposa, up the Dangerous mountain roads, And pulled in at eight a.m. With h...

Here's a really funny diagram about religion & politics. I'm not sure that I agree with all of it... I would put democrats into...