Bradley Wright's Blog

Here's an interesting article in the New Yorker about Mark Regnerus' book about Christian youth and sex. It's entitled Red Sex...

(Part II in a series) Follow Me uses about the same methodology as the original Reveal, just more widely applied. The data were collected ...

(Part 1 in a 13 series) Earlier this year, the Reveal team at Willow Creek Church put out their second book, Follow Me: What’s Next for Yo...

Floyd has joined a local swim club, which means twice a week he has 1.5 hour swim practices. After practice recently he started talking wit...

FYI: Starting Wednesday I will be posting an extended review of Follow Me , the follow up book to Reveal . I think it will weigh in at abou...

Here's an interesting survey of young people's attitudes toward politics by their religious beliefs. It's called the Faith in P...

Gus in on a couple of sports teams at his high school, so about once a week he has to wear a dress shirt and tie to school in anticipation o...

I think that my wife might be a little worried that I get excited about full moons over cemeteries, but there are some really cool cemeterie...

This may be the only advantage to having grown up in the 1970s... It certainly isn't the prom pictures with long hair and baby-blue tu...

I show this video to my criminology class when we get to the section on alcohol, drugs, and crime. It's a hilarious prank.

A good friend sent me this article that calls for proper scientific analysis of the beneficial effects of using parachutes when falling. He...

Apropos of nothing, I came across this statistic that truly surprised me. I'm so used to hearing about American angst and worry, that I...

I usually have no idea how to translate my religious beliefs into election-time decisions (and I'm usually unconvinced by people who say...

I came across this expression: "The plural of anecdote is not data." I was astounded that in just a few words, it conveyed what t...

This week was the 63rd annual Alfred Smith dinner. Both McCain and Obama were there, and, as per tradition, it was a light, funny evening. ...

I'm just now getting around to processing some of the pictures that I took in spring. Here's a fun reflection in a pond.

From a story in the London Times, the Pope casts the financial crisis in terms of the gospel. "Pope Benedict XVI today said that the ...

Here's a picture that a friend took. Isn't it beautiful! The colors and shapes work so well that I asked if I could post it here. ...

As a follow-up to yesterday's post on feeling and display rules, it occurs to me that being a pastor with a lot of these rules. Feeling ...

When most of us think of work, we think of things like trading our time for money or maybe doing something physically difficult. It turns ou...