Sightings Articles
Protest and the Raging Messianic
How do our responses to pestilence and protest reflect the value of human life in our religious imagination?
June 5, 2020
Asking the Right Questions about Riots
Contemplating the questions we should and shouldn't be asking about riots by looking to the example of Martin Luther King Jr.
June 4, 2020
Protests, Looting, and Iconoclasm
Considering how Christian acts of iconoclasm may illuminate the aims and effects of property damage and looting during protests
June 4, 2020
We Need Art to Help Us Heal, Now More than Ever
An invitation to process pain and to heal through the viewing and contemplation of contemporary Black art
June 4, 2020
Vandals and the Hands of Christ in the World
Exploring what Christian theology might have to say about the looting and vandalism that has accompanied many protests around the country
June 4, 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?