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Given that it’s my chosen profession, I should write about it more than I do…

Nexis Uni – Date Search Limited to 1 Year, No Issue Browsing, and No Obituaries

Posted on June 14, 2023June 14, 2023

I’m a college professor. As a result, I have access to a number of research resources that most people don’t have, including my university’s library, which subscribes to numerous databases…

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Examples of Religious Syncretism

Posted on July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

I’m always on the lookout for good examples of religious syncretism and wanted a good place to store these. Lôtān -> Leviathan In Psalm 74, verse 14, Yahweh is described…

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Greece Trip – Metochi

Posted on May 28, 2018July 26, 2020

Thanks to my work on nonreligion and atheism, I was invited to participate in a week-long colloquium (May 13th through May 20th) in Greece by LeRon Shults in which I would…

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How to Analyze Mormons in the GSS

Posted on September 1, 2016February 9, 2022

The General Social Survey (GSS) is a long-running, mostly cross-sectional survey of the non-institutionalized adult population in the US (since 1972).  Since the beginning, the GSS has asked people about…

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an interesting conception of love

Posted on May 21, 2012

During my spring break I went to the Cherokee Nation to volunteer with students.  During that trip we had several people come talk to us about Cherokee culture.  One of…

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jury duty and bias

Posted on November 7, 2011

I wrote this while waiting to serve on a jury selection panel: I’m sitting in the courthouse just outside a courtroom waiting to be part of a jury panel to…

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What if I’m gay?

Posted on July 12, 2011

I don’t get out much. It’s kind of sad, especially considering I’m a sociologist (meaning I study people), but I attribute it to the fact that Debi and I are…

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Something Interesting

Posted on February 21, 2011

In case you were wondering what effect Obama’s health care legislation (Affordable Care Act) will have on Medicare (’cause I’m sure everyone was wondering this), I have some visual aids…

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cat problem and innate morality

Posted on November 21, 2010February 25, 2020

Our neighbors to the east of us recently moved out (they were renting).  In the last couple of months before they moved out, we think they adopted a young cat….

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On TV again – as an expert on “heaven”

Posted on October 5, 2010

I received an email from the director of PR at my university last week looking for an expert on religion to comment on a news story the local Fox affiliate…

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