Sightings Articles
Victorianism in Postmodernity?
Ed. Note: This column contains some spoilers for FX’s recently completed series The Americans. The word “Victorian” can conjure, or be used to conjure, a variety of associations: order and decorum, inhibition, an emphatic moral code inevitably at ...
September 17, 2018
Progressives, Evangelicals, and Presidential Politics: What Love Has, and Hasn’t, Got to Do with It
A recent analysis of the dynamics of the 2016 presidential election in Sightings—Myriam Renaud, “Progressives: To Take Back the White House, Love Your White Evangelical Neighbors”—is useful. As Ms. Renaud says, the Clinton campaign failed to replicat...
October 5, 2017
Religion in the City: Our Urban Humanity and the World Beyond — Richard A. Rosengarten
As its readers are perfectly aware, Sightings is a publication of the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School. These biweekly columns are one venue through which the Center aims to highlight and also to clarify our understand...
January 24, 2008
Intelligent Watches — Richard A. Rosengarten
While Cardinal Schoenborn and the Roman Catholic Church's astronomer have officially indicated that it is possible to accept the science of evolution while remaining in good standing with the Church, the idea of intelligent design persists in at leas...
June 1, 2006
Designs of the Times
Editor's Note: Following today's issue, Sightings will be on summer hiatus until Monday, August 8. The installation of a new pope brings its own kind of honeymoon: Catholics and (to the degree that they take an interest) the wider world usually...