Bradley Wright's Blog

We just got an department e-mail today entitled: "Faculty Meeting / Suicide Prevention Training." Now, faculty meetings are not g...

As has been widely reported, Paul Newman passed away on Saturday. He lived here in Connecticut (at the other end of the state), and his cam...

As you know, I frequently harp on the need to evaluate religious research just as carefully as we do any other research. Ed Stetzer, of Lif...

When the time comes for me to be invited on to David Letterman's show*, I'll remember not to stand him up. Watch his response when M...

From a recent WSJ article , Bill Maher said "you can't be a rational person six days of the week and put on a suit and make rationa...

In light of the current financial crisis on Wall Street, perhaps the executives under fire should realize that things could be worse for th...

Today I completed what I think of as a New England Fall Father's Triathlon. It had three events (hence the tri- in triathlon). First I...

My brother John experienced the two extremes of hang gliding this month. First, he had a magical day when he could catch thermals just about...

A new study from Rodney Stark, at Baylor, finds that: "Congregants find megachurches offer more personal worship and sense of community...

A couple of weeks ago, I took my two sons up to a big amusement park (this is New England, so unfortunately we don’t have Disneyland). Each ...

Gus had his fifteenth birthday last week, complete with very success surprise party. (He's rather easy to deceive--like his father. The...

I've been posting a lot these past few months about statistics produced by Christian researchers that claim to show that Christians have...

Joe Eszterhas , a well-known Hollywood screenwriter, had a rather dramatic conversion to Christianity. Here is his story , and he motivate...

Usually when we think of evil, it involves chain saws or bank robberies or men lurking in trench coats. Here's a story about some one ...

Here's a picture of Jimi's office, and he has to stand on his desk to see it.  I'm not sure, but I think that he's being kep...

Jeremy gets urban on us. What's impressive is that though he's only a grad student, he gets a window seat! Nice. I didn't get...

Here's Nate's view ... a field with an orchard. Nice!

Here's the office view of Elroy . His comment--not as bad as a brick wall.

Upon seeing the picture of the view from my window, my friend Mark Edwards sent me a picture from his office window... Before we feel sorry ...

My wife, Cathy, is a  historian, and as I talk, she is being interviewed on the radio about a research project that she did on the Hurricain...