Bradley Wright's Blog

Here's an abstract from a paper "Exporting Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations" by ...

Over the weekend, we attended a wonderful Easter service at our church, complete with very well-done drama. (Our church benefits from have ...

My 17-year-old son, Gus, was accepted to a Christian college (hint: It's in a suburb west of Chicago named Wheaton), and today he sent b...

Rabbit jumping Everyone's doing it now! (Though it's just a matter of time before they need to start testing for BPEDs--Bunny Pe...

We live near the local high school, and there's a nice stonewall at the end of our streets. Periodically I see teenage couples sitting ...

I had an interesting experience with the concept of "passing it forward", but instead of charity, it was griping. At the gym, I...

Last night, while driving home from an errand, I noticed that the main building on campus was lighted in blue light. (Usually just a regula...

Periodically I'm blindsided by a cultural reference or a piece of information that I think is common knowledge but it turns out to be a ...

Here is an article that came out in USA Today earlier this week about divorce rates. I enjoyed the interview, and the information comes fro...

This last week my fourth-grade son, Floyd, brought home a request from his school. They asked us parents to make an extra effort in encoura...

Last week I took a several day trip to the Midwest, and it felt like I spent most of my travel time listening to people "upselling...

This last week I was in the Midwest attending to my ailing father, and among other things during the trip, I changed my consumption of infor...

Thanks Thanks Jeff.

"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees." - G.K. Chesterton Need I say more?

This week I've been reading various studies of how the news media regards religion. In 1993, Peter Steinfels, sketched out a list of ba...

I had the most interesting experience in my criminology class. I've taught it maybe 8 times over the years, and it always go well. Hey...

Last week, I flew out to Seattle for a conference, and, as I usually try to do, I sat in the back of the airplane (maximizes chance for open...

I used to think that I am reasonably competent when it comes to computer use, until this week. First, I had a laptop given to me, and whi...

GQ recently had an interesting interview with Ted Haggard, former bigtime Evangelical pastor. In it I was struck by how much difficulty ...

Over the break, my wife and I spent a glorious week on the Caribbean island of Nevis. We spent our time swimming, snorkeling, walking along...