Sightings Articles
Christian Apocalypse in Pandemic-Stricken South Korea
Christianity in South Korea will never be the same post-pandemic....
December 9, 2021
Extremism and Defense of Democracy
If we focus on policing acceptable political ideas via the state, we do more to undermine democracy than to secure it....
December 2, 2021
Fahrenheit 451 Redux: Free Thinking in the Present?
Enough with champions of the right and the left, the book burners and those of cancel culture: the present moment calls for a few more firemen like Ray Bradbury....
November 18, 2021
Liberalism’s Faith
On Maggie Nelson, the free exchange of ideas that fundamentalists fear, and the faith that must ground any tenable liberalism...
November 11, 2021
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
We Are Building Up A New World
Critical Race Theory’s Progressive Vision vs the Southern Baptist Convention’s Regressive Politics...
October 28, 2021
On Prophetic Rage
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a prophetic rage that rejected the status quo and strove for a just and loving community: we should too....
October 21, 2021
Pope Francis And The Jewish Law (Torah)
Pope Francis accepts Vatican II's Nostra Aetate, but has yet to fully extricate himself from two millennia's teachings of contempt ...
October 14, 2021
Sunday Mournings
Sunday worship was valorized as something it was not, but the “new normal” could turn out to be something that warrants renewed hope....
October 7, 2021
Beginning Again... and Again... and Again
We hoped that “Back to School” rituals might turn the page, but beginnings are never as straightforward and uncomplicated as we wish they could be....