Sightings Articles
Living Longer
“A Possible Benefit of Going to Church: A 33 Percent Chance of Living Longer.”...
May 23, 2016
Mega-Morality
The scope Sightings uses can be “tele-” (with a focus on the global) or “micro-” (for scoping on things close-up.) Today we focus on the parochial, a word related to “parish,” because often the most revealing themes of religion occur on that local an...
May 9, 2016
Pornography and Prince
“Pornography” had been the planned Sightings topic today, thanks to a column in Christian Headlines (April 20) by best-selling author and radio broadcaster Eric Metaxas. He celebrated the fact that “wonder of wonders, America’s leading news sources” ...
April 25, 2016
Religion Coverage
No writer about religion has reason to complain that too little has been happening in “the world of religion.” ...
April 18, 2016
Conscience
“Surprised!” is the rarest response of almost everyone to the long-awaited papal document on the joy of love (Amoris Laetitia). So devotedly had Pope Francis and Catholic episcopal leadership pondered and worked on the new 256-page document on the fa...
April 11, 2016
How To Save Your Soul
“How to Save Your Soul in a Digital Age” is the bold banner on the cover of The American Scholar (Spring, 2016). No, the magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society is not turning evangelistic. On page 22 the editors simply translate author James McWillia...
April 4, 2016
Wafer-Thin Commitment
Now and then a word or a phrase is understood to be so appropriate to a situation that it enters the vocabulary or catalog of slogans. ...
March 21, 2016
Futures Projected
Let’s step back this week from the overdoses of religion-in-public-life evidences which are candidates for Sightings these seasons and look for some perspective by using the rear-view mirror provided by historians, theologians, and ethicists. Recentl...