Sightings Articles
Sightings and Sorrows of Religion
While religion should motivate efforts to alleviate hatred and dehumanization, it often finds itself wrapped up in these social evils....
June 22, 2023
Redefining Redlining on Chicago’s Southside
The tulips in Amanda Williams' art installation enact for residents who live in or pass through the area that tenacious double effect of urban redlining: the mark of the past is never entirely erased....
June 15, 2023
The Prophetic and the Pragmatic in Cornel West
Using the language of prophecy and vocation to describe West’s campaign raises some interesting questions—not only about West but about what it means to be prophetic....
June 9, 2023
Connection and Celebration at the World's Parliament of Religions
At the height of racism in the US and Western colonialism, the Parliament was one attempt to mitigate human division and the sectarian passions nurtured and released by religious certainty....
May 25, 2023
This is the Way: Daoist Themes in Star Wars
Return of the Jedi resonates with themes, ideas, and symbolism from real-world religious traditions....
May 3, 2023
The Symbolism of a Kiss?
A single human action can take on multiple meanings, personal, social, cultural, and even moral and religious....
April 21, 2023
When Women’s Fears are Twisted into Myth
Women should not be the subject or target of myth as they should not of any anti-abortion legislation. Rather, they should have the central and deciding voice in all matters regarding pregnancy care and childbirth....
April 13, 2023
On ChatGPT: A Letter to My Students
The rapid development of AI-generated content has led to something of a crisis in higher education. ...
April 6, 2023
Tolerance as Tourism? Dual Developments in the Arab Gulf
Through the Abrahamic Family House, the UAE carefully curates the public sightseeing of what counts as true religion, what is tolerable and what is not, and what never reaches open discussion in the first place....
March 23, 2023
Public Education as Cultural Battleground
Attacks on public schools cannot be extricated today or historically from the use of religion as a unifying source of grievance and a particular vision of the nation fueled by an intense fear about cultural change....