Sightings Articles
COVID-19 and the Limits of Utilitarianism
Why our usual method for deliberating about policy decisions is failing us right now...
June 11, 2020
In the Name of ‘Religious Liberty,’ Roger Severino Wants to Feed U.S. Christians to the (COVID-19) Lions
How COVID-19 reveals the dangers of misunderstanding and abusing 'religious liberty'...
June 1, 2020
Time in Coronatide: Why We’re Not Actually Living in Groundhog Day
Exploring how our experience of time is altered by the pandemic and what reflecting on ‘pandemic time’ (with some help from Augustine) might teach us ...
May 28, 2020
Commencement 2020: Let the Adulting Begin
What do this year's graduation ceremonies, hallmark rituals of American civil religion, reveal about the state of our collective soul?...
May 21, 2020
Cultural Disruptions
Martin Marty on the importance of seeking out stories of human goodness in the darkest days...
May 11, 2020
We Need Fewer Heroes
Exploring the tension between our praise of everyday heroes and the social instability that necessitates them...
May 8, 2020
Plagues and the Pale Rider: Our Present Apocalypse
How ancient religious themes can help us make sense of the global pandemic and its socioeconomic fallout...
April 27, 2020
Pandemic Preaching
Exploring homiletical adaptation and invention in the midst of the global pandemic...
April 16, 2020
Hope in the Midst of Apocalypse
Martin Marty ponders the themes of Apocalypse, (In)Action, and Theodicy in relation to COVID-19...