Sightings Articles
Theology of the Land — Ira Rifkin
The gap between mainline churches and the American Jewish community is widening, as talk of divestment exacerbates long-standing differences over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sightings previously addressed whether divestment, in any form, from c...
November 4, 2004
Faithfully Considering Glocalization — Ira Rifkin
Pope John Paul II, at a Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences meeting in early May, issued one of his periodic critiques of globalization. He said that the process we call globalization -- the unprecedented spread of Western-style (some would substit...