Sightings Articles
We Need Art to Help Us Heal, Now More than Ever
An invitation to process pain and to heal through the viewing and contemplation of contemporary Black art...
June 4, 2020
Vandals and the Hands of Christ in the World
Exploring what Christian theology might have to say about the looting and vandalism that has accompanied many protests around the country...
June 4, 2020
In the Name of ‘Religious Liberty,’ Roger Severino Wants to Feed U.S. Christians to the (COVID-19) Lions
How COVID-19 reveals the dangers of misunderstanding and abusing 'religious liberty'...
June 1, 2020
Time in Coronatide: Why We’re Not Actually Living in Groundhog Day
Exploring how our experience of time is altered by the pandemic and what reflecting on ‘pandemic time’ (with some help from Augustine) might teach us ...
May 28, 2020
Commencement 2020: Let the Adulting Begin
What do this year's graduation ceremonies, hallmark rituals of American civil religion, reveal about the state of our collective soul?...
May 21, 2020
Playing the Ostrich; or, How Not to Think about QAnon
American conspiracy theories and the task of the scholar of religion...
May 18, 2020
The Black Church and LGBTQ People: Lessons Learned from #dems2020
Interrogating the intersection of race, religion, and LGBTQ rights in the South Carolina Democratic primary...
May 14, 2020
Cultural Disruptions
Martin Marty on the importance of seeking out stories of human goodness in the darkest days...
May 11, 2020
We Need Fewer Heroes
Exploring the tension between our praise of everyday heroes and the social instability that necessitates them...