Sightings Articles
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
Pandemic Preaching
Exploring homiletical adaptation and invention in the midst of the global pandemic...
April 16, 2020
Faith in the Time of Coronavirus: The Power of Spacial Solidarity
How the global pandemic is reshaping the lives of communities of faith...
March 19, 2020
Sighting (and Citing) Chaplains
Exploring the growing role and significance of chaplaincy in American society ...
February 20, 2020
Disruptive Religion
Why we sometimes need religion to offend us and disturb the status quo...
January 2, 2020
Summer Storm Watch
It’s summertime, the season when many Protestant denominations hold annual conferences and assemblies that draw hundreds or even thousands of participants from across the nation and the world. Like an enormous extended family during an unruly dinnert...
July 18, 2019
Manaakitanga and the Power of Silence
Ed. Note: Today's column is the second in a three-part series by Divinity School faculty reflecting on the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand last Friday. On Monday, Richard Rosengarten wrote about the challenges and possibilities of religi...
March 21, 2019
What's in a (Religious) Name?
At the turn of the year, it is not uncommon to encounter casual “resolution professions,” whether over coffee with friends, waiting for the bus at a crowded stop, or simply tuning the car radio to various stations. Persons intent on improving their l...
January 17, 2019
The Art of Prayer Meets the Prayer of Art
Both art and prayer invite us to assume unconventional or inconvenient postures that demand we orient ourselves differently. ...
October 18, 2018
Where the Millennials Are
In his Sightings column published on Monday, December 11, Martin Marty invites readers to attend to the “movements in the hearts” of millennials, rather than settling for obvious interpretations about their reputed absence from our pews: “Hard news a...