Sightings Articles
Sacred Sites -- Martin E. Marty
We have just remembered Pearl Harbor, pondered protest-worthy crises of the moment and, with an eye to international affairs, expressed reason to fear for the future. But it is also proper to keep broad perspectives, and to do our sightings in somewh...
December 8, 2014
Ferguson Congregations "Lay It On the Table," Taking a Step Toward Honest Dialogue -- Rick Nutt
on Sunday, November 30, a remarkable and hopeful event happened without fanfare. ...
December 4, 2014
Malaise in Europe -- Martin E. Marty
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, some Americans remembered the religious and not-wholly-commercial base of this national holiday. The religious element bade citizens to look backward with thanks and forward with a spirit of newness and resolve. Yesterday,...
December 1, 2014
On Thanksgiving Day, Remember Fast Day -- Dean Grodzins
Americans have forgotten Fast Day, although it once was as important a holiday as Thanksgiving. In fact, it was paired with Thanksgiving and considered its necessary complement. Thanksgiving and Fast Day originated together in colonial New Englan...
November 27, 2014
Income and Wealth Inequality: Why Religion's Current Efforts Won't Cut It
When religious institutions turn their attention to legislation, legal codes, and regulations, they can effect change....
November 20, 2014
Thinking Religion and Democracy in Dark Times -- Corey D. B. Walker
For many scholars and commentators, religion represents a unique challenge to democratic politics...
November 13, 2014
Jewish Millennials and Co.
Unaffiliated, unreachable, unmoved, unfazeable younger Americans, aged 18-23 in some cases, or “millennials” in others, have been in our sights this season as we observe religious trends. ...
November 10, 2014
Religion, Class, and Denominationalism in the US
Ever since H. Richard Niebuhr’s book The Social Sources of Denominationalism (1929) there has been evidence that religious affiliation and class status are somehow connected....