Bradley Wright's Blog

From the Scientific American website : (Thanks Jay!) *** "Research published this week reveals a surprising trend among the Americ...

Earlier this summer I had the chance to spend a couple days with Bob and Audrey Meisner , Christian Broadcasters up in Winnipeg, Canada. ...

Here's a very interesting article about the adult conversion process. In it the author, Mike Fleischmann, a pastor from Southern Cali...

For the first time in years, we got away for a family vacation. We only had five days, so we took our pop-up camper to the Rhode Island coas...

Tony Gill, out at U. Washington, has done us a big favor by starting the Research on Religion podcast .  On a regular basis, he uploads exte...

FoxNews has a web channel called The Strategy Room, and one of their segments is GodTalk.  I got to talk about my book on it this morning, d...

Link .  (Thanks Brandon!)

I've not studied surveys of Christian pastors, but from the sounds of this article , it's a tough profession. That doesn't surp...

Here's an interesting idea: Religious survey researchers should go to seminary to increase the accuracy and usefulness of their survey q...

  Here's an article in yesterday's Christian Post that does a good job of describing my book. The writer, Lillian Kwon, did well a...

There's a reason why we should be patient with others... it helps keep us from looking really stupid. Several times a week I go to th...

Mark Chaves, a professor at Duke, studies American churches. He recently wrote about Evangelical vs. Mainline churches in their ability to ...

Also from Michael Kruse's blog: a fascinating report about an engineer who is trying to help poor people in Africa by selling, and not g...

In case you didn't know of it already, there's a great new website, researchonreligion.org , that podcasts of religion scholars disc...

Do you remember the Sesame Street song... "One of these things is not like the other" in which multiple objects are presented with...

This week I start teaching a summer school class on social psychology--one of my favorite classes to teach. Earlier this summer, however,...

Louisiana recently passed a la w allowing guns in church. I suppose, if nothing else, this will keep sermons from going on too long...

A friend and neighbor of mine, a retired pastor, read my book, and he told me a story about the use of the term "hypocrite" that p...

Also from John Ortberg, more ideas of how to do Christianity. "Instead of making vows about how my spiritual life will be perfectly w...

This evening I was working hard getting ready for our big fourth of July pool party tomorrow, and at one point I was carrying an old clay po...