Sightings: 2009 Archive
December 21
Searching for God
Martin E. Marty
December 17
Radical Freedom in the Kingdom of Sweets
Spencer Dew
December 14
Decline in Conservative Churches
Martin E. Marty
December 10
Soldiering, Memory, and the Faiths of Americans
Jonathan Ebel
December 7
The Prosperity Gospel and the Financial Crisis
Martin E. Marty
December 3
Faith and Science: At War No More
Martin Davis
November 19
The Velvet Prophet: Vaclav Havel and his Message of Responsibility
Lubomir Martin Ondrasek
November 16
Penitents Compete and the Future of Turkish Secularism
Joseph Laycock
November 12
Religion-Based Arguments in Juvenile Life Without Parole Cases
Joan Gottschall
November 9
A New Ecumenism
Gregory Syler
November 5
A Limited Ecumenism
Ryan McCarl
November 2
Congregational Economics
Martin E. Marty
October 29
Back to the Twelfth Century: Peter the Venerable and Pope Benedict XVI
Lucy K. Pick
October 26
Anglicans and Rome
Martin E. Marty
October 22
On Muslims and Miniature Horses
Spencer Dew
October 19
The Common Good
Martin E. Marty
October 15
Crush Freaks, the Human Sacrifice Channel, and Other Religious Horribles
Jeremy Biles
October 12
Israel After Utopia
Martin E. Marty
October 8
Controlling the Words
James L. Evans
October 5
Evangelicaldom
Martin E. Marty
October 1
Allen Grossman's Tears
Michael Robbins
September 28
Walking a Fine Line in U.S. Catholic
Martin E. Marty
September 24
Seeking Moral Clarity in the Fight Against Sex Trafficking
Barbra Barnett
September 21
Navigating Religion News
Martin E. Marty
September 17
Ethical Wills in Inter-Religious Dialogue and Research
Joshua M. Z. Stanton
September 14
Self-loathing
Martin E. Marty
July 30
Foundational Texts, Interpretation, and Playing the Game: The Religious Underpinnings of the Sotomayor Hearings
Ingrid Lilly
July 27
Giving
Martin E. Marty
July 23
Ten Commendments for a Biblical Psychology
Kalman J. Kaplan
July 20
Jimmy Carter and the Elders
Martin E. Marty
July 16
The Radicalism of Caritas in Veritate?
Rick Elgendy
July 13
Homosexuality and Slavery in the Bible
Martin E. Marty
July 9
Understanding the "Open Carry Celebration"
Joseph Laycock
July 2
The Way You Make Me Feel
Kathryn Lofton
June 29
A Week in "Secular" America
Martin E. Marty
June 25
Resetting the American Faith Dialogue
Martin Davis
June 22
Fatherhood
Martin E. Marty
June 18
Jewish Girl, American Doll
Sarah Imhoff
June 15
A Different Side of Chabad
Martin E. Marty
June 11
In the Shade of Napoleon and Malcolm X: Making Sense of Obama's "New Beginning" in Cairo
Omer M. Mozaffar
June 8
I Was in Prison, But...
Martin E. Marty
June 4
The Curious Case of Galileo Galilei (in which he does not go to jail)
Karl E. Johnson
June 1
Supreme Court Catholics
Martin E. Marty
May 26
Holy Death on the US/Mexico Border
Lois Ann Lorentzen
May 21
Barack Obama, Notre Dame, and the Question of Roman Catholic Identity
Adam Darlage
May 18
Seminarians
Martin E. Marty
May 14
Pigs, Plagues, Politics, and Religion
Spencer Dew
May 11
Torture Follow-up
Martin E. Marty
May 7
Unnatural Acts
Melissa Conroy
May 4
Torture
Martin E. Marty
April 30
The Continuing Responsibility of North-West Theologians in Global Christianity
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
April 27
Population Changes in Europe
Martin E. Marty
April 23
Crash: Apocalypse and Prophecy In, With, and Through J. G. Ballard
Jeremy Biles
April 20
One Hundred Years of America
Martin E. Marty
April 16
Destiny's Child
Thomas Zebrowski
April 13
Holiday Conflicts
Martin E. Marty
April 9
Religion, Vengeance, and Hospitality in The Last House on the Left: The Long Strange Journey of a Myth Motif
Brian Collins
April 6
God is Back
Martin E. Marty
April 2
Seminaries as Incubators of Inter-Religious Leadership
Joshua M. Z. Stanton
March 30
The Decline of Denominational Publishing
Martin E. Marty
March 26
Is Anyone Really Watching Watchmen?
Kevin Boyd
March 23
The Decline of the Culture Wars
Martin E. Marty
March 19
A Crackdown on Miracles?
Heather A. Hartel
March 16
Economics
Martin E. Marty
March 12
The Religious Violence of "Defending Marriage"
Jon Pahl
March 9
Mainline Clergy
Martin E. Marty
March 5
Slumdog Courage: What is Written?
Alison Downie
March 2
Evangelicals and the Environment
Martin E. Marty
February 26
The Hidden Dialogue
Thomas Zebrowski
February 23
Commodification
Martin E. Marty
February 19
Hyper-Muscular Christianity
Joseph Laycock
February 16
Interreligion
Martin E. Marty
February 12
Valentine's Day in India
Wendy Doniger
February 9
Wall Street
Martin E. Marty
February 5
Updike's Motions of Grace
M. Cooper Harriss
February 2
Pope Benedict and the Jews
Martin E. Marty
January 29
Showers of Blood: The Cosmology of Charles Fort
P. Genesius Durica
January 26
Inaugural Jesus
Martin E. Marty
January 22
An Inner Life With New Meaning
Krista Tippett
January 19
Farewell, President
Martin E. Marty
January 15
Religious Suicide in an Investor's World
Rita Polevoy
January 12
Sex and Seminaries
Martin E. Marty
January 8
News from the Religion and Science Front
Douglas Anderson
January 5
Non-negotiables
Martin E. Marty
