This is my dog, Shadow. I enjoy going for walks through the park with Shadow. For Shadow these are opportunities to chase and retrieve a...

The Rise of the 'Nones' 24% of Canadian adults say that they have ‘no religion’ today, compared to 4% in 1971. 32% of Canadian teens say...

Leaving and Not Coming Back? Next week I head to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion annual meeting in Indianapolis. I will...

Flourishing Congregations in Canada When it comes to congregations, much of the academic and clerical discourse on religion in Canada to...

I just returned from the Association for the Sociology of Religion annual conference in San Francisco – a wonderful city that I explored...

Why do some convert to a religion and others do not? What contributes to de-conversion and then conversion to another religion, or to no...

Religious socialization is a subject that I have considered at length over the past year. I think about this topic from the vantage point...

Yesterday I officially began my first ever sabbatical. The image above is only partially accurate in depicting a sabbatical. It is a time...

I am in the middle of a three-week stretch spending time with seven groups in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario to discuss the current...

Does or should the academy serve the public good? Three personal experiences inform this blog. (1) A good friend recently passed along an...