Sightings Articles
On Prophetic Rage
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a prophetic rage that rejected the status quo and strove for a just and loving community: we should too.
October 21, 2021
Pope Francis And The Jewish Law (Torah)
Pope Francis accepts Vatican II's Nostra Aetate, but has yet to fully extricate himself from two millennia's teachings of contempt
October 14, 2021
Sunday Mournings
Sunday worship was valorized as something it was not, but the “new normal” could turn out to be something that warrants renewed hope.
October 7, 2021
Beginning Again... and Again... and Again
We hoped that “Back to School” rituals might turn the page, but beginnings are never as straightforward and uncomplicated as we wish they could be.
September 30, 2021
On Social Dissolution: Lost Threads and Forgotten Dogmas
From passing conversations on the street to extended news commentaries on air and online, it is hard to miss the pervasive sense of social breakdown.
September 23, 2021
Don't You Know There's a War On?
Thirty years after its publication, Culture Wars remains an essential guide to American politics.
September 17, 2021
Conspiracy Theories and Human Psychology
The unsettlingly normal cognitive roots of outlandish explanations
September 9, 2021
A Year to Mask and Unmask
What the pandemic has concealed and revealed about the conditions of possibility for our society
June 28, 2021
Secular Music in Seven Lessons
Darkwave artist Cold Cave's recent album, "Fate in Seven Lessons," sheds light on the complexities of popular culture's interaction with religion