Sightings Articles

religious freedom | prisons

Diet and Free Exercise

How do religious beliefs decide what prisoners and patients eat? Two recent court cases in Virginia pit religious diets against the need to serve diverse populations in public institutions. In one case, a prison inmate has requested kosher food, whi...

June 13, 2019

clergy | drug policy | prisons | Unitarian Universalists | War on Drugs

Clergy for a New Drug Policy

When was the last time any of us read of a war being over? The War in Afghanistan? The Culture War(s)? The War on Poverty? For all we know, factions may still be seething over issues, such as they were, in the Thirty Years’ War or (we’ll raise you 70...

September 12, 2016