Bradley Wright's Blog

Now this is the holiday spirit!

The perks of being a UConn BB fan...

Christmas is a funny time of year for me because in December I am going full speed with work, finishing finals and for some reason I invaria...

This comic strip gets at some of my attitude toward the holidays...

Sociologists often fashion themselves as on the cutting edge of protest (though many of us are tenured state employees). Since there are so...

Earlier this month, a large Christian Church was assaulted and shut down by local police... "Hundreds of police and hired thugs descend...

Last week, well-known Evangelical pastor Rick Warren denounced the new anti-gay law put into place in Uganda. He told pastors in Uganda pas...

I don't know if I'm ready for how much technology has entered in our life. Last week it snowed, and my oldest son, Gus, woke up at 6...

Last Thursday I posted some thoughts about science and religion, and several people contacted me saying that there were good ideas there. Wh...

Here's a picture of the river down the road from us, with fall foliage.

For whatever reason, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the relationship of religion and science. As you would expect of a social scient...

(From the LA Times) Irving Morris Piliavin ...

One of the joys of working at UConn is following the Women's Basketball team and their coach, Geno Auriemma. Besides being a tremendous...

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: ...