Since Christmas, I've been thinking about the religious version of the transplant phenomenon — conversion from one church to another. I...

In what is becoming an annual Christmas tradition, popular web media outlets are crowing about how many of America's "beloved"...

Is moving away from the region of your upbringing driven more by career chasing or by starting a new identity, unfettered by the ties of the...

In a recent comment thread about the lack of iconic coming-of-age movies in the '90s, I pointed to the sole exception -- the cult TV sh...

Let's take another look at how moral constraints weaken when a person no longer feels bound by the prevailing norms because they are not...

If you watch any of the endless reality shows set in Alaska, you might notice something strange — for a heavily Republican state, religion d...

Here is a post that tries to account for the blandness and weakness of the Millennial generation by pointing to their insulation from havin...

When you think of what musical timbre distinguishes a song from the 1980s, the synthesizer springs first to mind. If a pop song these days w...

Part of the ongoing attempt to make the '90s revival happen (it won't happen) has been to emphasize the tone of cynicism, sarcasm, a...