Sightings Articles
The Passion of Bitcoin Jesus
In the rush to declare cryptocurrency a new religion, we risk overlooking these stories about how “old” religions are making sense of crypto....
May 15, 2024
Demon Slayer: Pop Religion and Japanese Anime
The recent anime film both draws inspiration from Japanese religions and functions as a source of inspiration for religious practices....
May 8, 2024
Telling the Stories of Leopold and Loeb
Thinking about Leopold and Loeb as well as their inspiration and their trial shows the importance of how we narrate the history of morality....
May 3, 2024
Diagnosing Saints
Identifying health issues in religious exemplars can help reduce stigma and illustrate that virtue and mental illness are not mutually exclusive, but we must hold such diagnoses lightly....
April 24, 2024
Sustaining Kin in the Climate Crisis: An Earth Day Reflection
As climate change deters more young adults from parenthood, some are finding creative and constructive ways to build relationships with children who are not biologically their own....
April 17, 2024
The Alabama IVF Decision is About Care Work
We must learn to see infertility treatment and queer family building as essential moments of care, and not as unintended casualties of a bigger debate on abortion....
April 11, 2024
Today's Amish Are Plain, Not Simple
Comments by Stephen Colbert overlook the complexity of Amish culture in the 21st century....
April 4, 2024
Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist Philosophy: Converting to Multiculturalism
Once we examine the roots of “Buddhaphobia” in philosophical education, we can get easily beyond it....
March 29, 2024
A Forgotten Story about Christian Anti-Racism
In "A Theology of Brotherhood," Curtis Evans traces progressive Christians’ work in the early twentieth century....
March 21, 2024
Leaving Evangelicalism Behind
"The Exvangelicals" is both timely and superb: It deals with the issues that will decide the 2024 elections and discusses them with sensitivity, sophistication, and bravery.