Monthly Archives: January 2005

This interview with Christian Smith from Books and Culture highlights his recent research on American teens. Of his work, I’ve only read The Secular Revolution: Power, Interests, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life, a very interesting book. … Continue reading →

A United Methodist elder currently pastoring in another denomination reflects on the Beth Stroud case: Further, the message sounded out from the UMC after the Beth mess is this — you can’t be a practicing lesbian and be a United … Continue reading →

As I was putting my youngest daughter to bed tonight we were listening (as is our habit) to an episode of Adventures in Odyssey. In the story Nick, a worker at Whit’s End (a ice cream shop & hang out … Continue reading →