Sightings Articles
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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
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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
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Today's Amish Are Plain, Not Simple
Comments by Stephen Colbert overlook the complexity of Amish culture in the 21st century....
April 4, 2024
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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
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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
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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.
March 14, 2024
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“. . . you’re doing it right now”: Aaron Bushnell and Legal Pluralism
What if we understand Aaron Bushnell’s action as opening onto a different legal order—and collectivity—one to which we all also belong?...
March 7, 2024
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Enlightenment Religion in the Private and Public Bibles of Thomas Jefferson
For Thomas Jefferson, the human being's responsibility was to extricate and celebrate good religion....
February 29, 2024
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In Short Measures Life May Perfect Be
If what makes human life sublime is complete, without the need for growth and endurance across time, this is exactly the sort of thinking our planet needs....
February 15, 2024
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Smart Sightings | The Religious Experience of Mark Rothko
Can art and the experience of art be divine? Mark Rothko's "No. 2" offers alternative ways to think about religion....