Bradley Wright's Blog

I don't get down to the shore very often, though it's only 40 minutes away. Here is a bird pic from a previous visit. I'm not ...

(Part 7 in a series) Perhaps the biggest surprise for me with Follow Me is its flipping around of the causal story of Reveal . The first d...

(Part 6 in a series) Turning to concerns about Follow Me , given the similarity of methods of Follow Me and Reveal , they share some of the...

(Part 5 in a series) Given that Follow Me is a follow-up of Reveal , it’s worth asking how it’s different. While Follow Me has the same l...

Here's a video sent to me by my son, Gus, and it's probably the most clever piece of campaign advertising that I've ever seen! O...

(Part 4 in a series) Another strength of Follow Me is that it models some of the possible uses of data for a local church. It would seem t...

(Part 3 in a series) As with the original Reveal , Follow Me gets high marks for asking the right question. Its focus is one spiritual gro...

You'd be surprised how hard it is to find dogwoods in bloom this time of year...

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...