Sightings Articles

Muslims at the American Table

Ed. Note: This column is adapted from the author’s recent book, Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise (Princeton University Press, 2018). Chaim Potok’s classic novel The Chosen centers on the friendship between two teena...

September 20, 2018

Martin Marty

How the Rabbi Ties His Shoes

Editor’s Note: This month we are celebrating both the twentieth anniversary of the Martin Marty Center and the ninetieth birthday of Martin Marty. Marty would say that our focus ought to be on the Center, not on him, and for the most part it is. Howe...

February 15, 2018

God and Man at Yale

The Commons at Yale University looked like a cross between Hogwarts and Medina.  Over five hundred students, staff, and faculty had gathered for a university-wide iftar, the meal where Muslims break their dawn-to-dusk fast during the month of Ramadan...

December 4, 2008