Sightings Articles
Reckoning with Re-education: Christianity’s Role in Native American Boarding Schools
American Christians must reckon with colonial history and cooperate with US government's “Road to Healing" initiative.
July 6, 2022
Science and Religion in Times of Plague
Calvin and Luther warn against the simplistic assumption that religious liberty is opposed to medical expertise
January 21, 2021
Judging Illness and Living Like Kings in Yomeddine
Religion and the interpretation of illness in the critically acclaimed Egyptian film Yomeddine (2018)
October 31, 2019
The Acquittal of "Patient Zero"
In the midst of the tumultuous vitriol of the recent election and its aftermath, it was unfortunate that a significant story regarding a once virulent legend of the AIDS epidemic went relatively unnoticed—a story that returns us to the apogee of the ...
February 2, 2017
Contagious Armadillos: Spreading Leprosy and Archaic Biblical Narratives
The old adage that truth is stranger than fiction is abundantly apparent in recent headlines linking together the disparate words: leprosy, armadillo, and Florida. We can add “religion” to this uncanny trinity of terms. A number of news outlets h...