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Lyman Stone

Fertility and Income: Some Notes

UPDATE: Forgot a section! Added now!

22 min readApr 10, 2024

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Fertility and Income: Some Notes

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How Many Hobbits? 3,000 Years of Middle Earth Population History

This is the third post in my series on the demography of Middle Earth. The first piece introduced some methods for estimating the…

31 min readDec 13, 2023

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How Many Hobbits? Middle Earth Population by People Group

In my prior post, I laid out some population estimates for Middle Earth’s Free Peoples by region. Here, I’m going to break it down by…

10 min readDec 5, 2023

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How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth

Part 2 of this essay on Middle Earth population, mapping specific populations, is here.

21 min readDec 5, 2023

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Would the True Christians Please Stand Up? A Review of “Cultural Christians in the Early Church”

I have just finished Nadya Williams’ “Cultural Christians in the Early Church.” The book is a delightful and thought-provoking romp through…

19 min readDec 4, 2023

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In a State of Migration

Who Has Claim? 3,000 Years of Religion in the Land Between

Israel and Gaza are at it again in a war. This post is not about that war. This post does not answer what rules for use of force Israel…

47 min readOct 27, 2023

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Babies vs. Baptisms

The discussion about singleness and the church continues. I’ve mostly said my piece on the singleness question, but this piece at…

14 min readSep 18, 2023

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Babies vs. Baptisms

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A brief comment on Dani Treweek’s dissertation

In the ongoing debate about singleness, Dani Treweek linked me to a non- paywalled version of her views. It is 356 pages because it is her…

16 min readSep 13, 2023

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A brief comment on Dani Treweek’s dissertation

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Was my CT article on singleness mean?

Dani Treweek, who has written a book arguing that marriage has been overvalued relative to singleness in the church and that the church…

16 min readSep 11, 2023

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Was my CT article on singleness mean?

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Open Letter Rebutting “Marriage Between Church and State”

Dear CTCR Member,

15 min readJul 20, 2023

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Lyman Stone

Lyman Stone

Global cotton economist. Migration blogger. Proud Kentuckian. Advisor at Demographic Intelligence. Senior Contributor at The Federalist.

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