Sightings Articles
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A Forgotten Story about Christian Anti-Racism
In "A Theology of Brotherhood," Curtis Evans traces progressive Christians’ work in the early twentieth century....
March 21, 2024
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Smart Sightings | The Religious Experience of Mark Rothko
Can art and the experience of art be divine? Mark Rothko's "No. 2" offers alternative ways to think about religion....
February 8, 2024
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Welcome to a New Year of Sightings
As the Divinity School and the Marty Center begin a new academic year, Sightings welcomes new voices and new partnerships....
September 28, 2023
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Religion, Politics, and Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Fall from Grace
Hulu's new documentary about the Falwell family sheds light on entanglements of religion and politics and has important implications for the current moment....
November 11, 2022
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Bad Faith History: The End of Roe v. Wade and The Supreme Court’s Myth about Abortion in the United States
The world that the Court’s opinion imagines is intimately (and frighteningly) consonant with a white, Christian nationalist vision of our nation....
July 1, 2022
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The Time Has Passed
On February 16th, 2017, Sightings published an article entitled “Why Milo Scares Students, and Faculty Even More,” by University of Chicago professor Rachel Fulton Brown. In the piece Fulton Brown theorizes about the discomfort that Milo Yiannopoulos...