Sightings Articles
Jobs for All?
As unemployment in the U.S. continues to rise to historic levels due to COVID-19, what does history teach us about religion's role in helping get Americans back to work?...
June 26, 2020
In What Do We Trust?
Reflecting on what holds us together as a society that embodies justice...
June 22, 2020
Unexpected ‘Openings’ and the Essence of Religious Practice
What we learn about the nature of religious practice from the innovations and adaptations of religious communities during the pandemic...
June 18, 2020
America’s Sirens
A reflection on America’s mythology of sirens, and the need to rewrite it...
June 15, 2020
COVID-19 and the Limits of Utilitarianism
Why our usual method for deliberating about policy decisions is failing us right now...
June 11, 2020
Stop Asking What the Bible Means to the President
A historian of the bible in America reflects on what Trump’s recent photo-op in front of St. John’s Church does (and doesn’t) mean...
June 8, 2020
Protest and the Raging Messianic
How do our responses to pestilence and protest reflect the value of human life in our religious imagination?...
June 5, 2020
Asking the Right Questions about Riots
Contemplating the questions we should and shouldn't be asking about riots by looking to the example of Martin Luther King Jr. ...
June 4, 2020
Protests, Looting, and Iconoclasm
Considering how Christian acts of iconoclasm may illuminate the aims and effects of property damage and looting during protests...