Bradley Wright's Blog

As a parent, I spend time thinking about how to socialize my boys--teaching and training them. As part of that, I try to instill my own val...

Often critics of Christianity (and other religions) frame the issue as one of science vs. religion. However, it appears that about half of ...

I love photos of cool reflections in the water. This is a beaver dam in fall, with the sun hitting some maples-turning-yellow on the other ...

My graduate school advisor, Irv Piliavin, passed away on Thursday. Irv shaped me as a sociologist in many ways. He had a mad-capped approac...

Richard Dawkins, apparently not wanting to be left behind by Christopher Hitchens hyperbole, takes his own shots at the Catholic Church: ...

I happened to notice some very bright red leaves along the roadside, and so I lined it up with shapes and colors in the background (that are...

Christopher Hitchens is one of the more prominent "New Atheists," and in a recent interview , here is his view on Mother Teresa: ...

Well, I've had my suspicions, and so today, when Gus, my high school junior son, was at school, I searched his room, and sure enough I f...

Michael Hout has written some influential articles about the increase in the religiously unaffiliated in the 1990s. In particular, he's...

My friend Scott Thumma is prominently featured in this movie about mega-churches. Though he's a humble research professor at Hartford S...

Yep, New England is a pretty easy place to take photographs in the fall.

It is now possible for you to become a "secular celebrant" of life's milestones such as birth or a wedding. Sign up for the t...

I recently came across a law that we can all believe in: Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies. It states that "As a Usenet discussion gro...

I've been reading some of the better known atheist-focused blogs recently, and I've been struck by their presentation and persuasi...

As I understand it, Mormons believe that if things go well for them, they will become Gods with their own people/ planets. Now, that being ...

When the Mormon missionaries presented in class, they had an interesting presentational strategy in terms of how to make Mormonism appealing...

(From one of those funny things people write on tests). thanks K!

Last week I had some Mormon missionaries speak to my class about their faith. We were studying rational choice theories of religion, and so...

Thanks John!