Sightings Articles
A Professor of Religion in a Time of Pop Power
An academic reflects on her analysis of a boy band, their fans' reactions to it, and the hazards of professional expertise...
November 9, 2020
Faith and Disaster
A Kantian reflection on the disconnect between the world of facts and our actions...
November 5, 2020
The Road to Hell: Dantes Inferno and the Undermining of Trust
A late-medieval view of institutional sin...
November 2, 2020
The Problem with Calling Amy Coney Barrett Too Catholic
The tendentious historical origins of American Catholic Conservatism...
October 29, 2020
The Soul of the Nation?
A campaign slogan raises interesting questions about what, exactly, we're all fighting for...
October 26, 2020
The Precariousness of Care
Attending to each other and our communities is costly, messy, exhausting — and vital...
October 22, 2020
A Legal Perversion of Justice
Breonna Taylor's death and the lawlessness of law and order...
October 19, 2020
Blessings, History, and Pandemic Vulnerabilities
What happens when a nation fails to reckon with its own human frailty...
October 15, 2020
Common Sense and the 2020 Election
How do screens change our sense of national community?...
October 12, 2020
The Power of a Heartbroken Community
In sharing others' pain, faith and church show their true resilience....