Sightings Articles
Getting Serious about Legally Blonde
The 2001 comedy shatters expectations about what makes a good heroine...
May 9, 2022
The Affair of the Sausages and Religious Freedom
Five hundred years ago today, some Swiss people ate sausages. This was a major event in the history of Christianity....
March 8, 2022
Are Vaccine Exemptions Actually Religious?
Large-scale vaccine skepticism is a new phenomenon, but is it a religious phenomenon?...
February 4, 2022
The Revolutionary Joy of Desmond Tutu
There is a danger in softening Tutu’s legacy, but we make the same mistake in the opposite direction if we forget his contagious, all-embracing joy....
January 6, 2022
The Irony of Facebook
Ironically, social media sites draw upon our natural desire to have friends but they can make it more difficult to truly connect....
November 4, 2021
Conspiracy Theories and Human Psychology
The unsettlingly normal cognitive roots of outlandish explanations...
September 9, 2021
What Makes a Conflict "Religious"?
Sometimes our categories conceal more than they reveal...
June 7, 2021
The Moral Emptiness of Zack Snyder's Justice League
Understanding what makes a movie villain compelling (or not), with a little help from Thomas Aquinas...
May 3, 2021
Raphael Warnock and the Ongoing Legacy of Black Liberation Theology
The myth of a monolithic Black theology at the heart of political scare tactics...
