Sightings Articles

Nurses

Coronavirus | Religion and Literature | Jewish philosophy

Love, Obligation, and Possibilities in the Time of COVID-19

Even in this season of prescribed social distancing, hope for our future emerges from our bonds with one another...

March 30, 2020
CV19

Coronavirus | apocalyptic theology

Measuring the Apocalypse

Where we will and won't find meaning in this global pandemic...

March 26, 2020
CV

Coronavirus | Myth | religious ethics

Pan-Nemesis: COVID-19 and Beyond

Do religious myths have anything to teach us during this present crisis?...

March 23, 2020
Italy

Coronavirus | worship

Faith in the Time of Coronavirus: The Power of Spacial Solidarity

How the global pandemic is reshaping the lives of communities of faith...

March 19, 2020
isolation

Coronavirus | health care | Religion and Literature

The Coronavirus and Us

Exploring the "ultimate dimensions" of COVID-19 as Americans prepare themselves for a season of quarantine and isolation...

March 16, 2020
Romney

Mormons | politics | Donald Trump

Scapegoating Mitt Romney

What Mitt Romney's disinvitation from CPAC 2020 tells us about the evolving role of religion in public life for the Christian Right...

March 12, 2020
church

decline | Great Awakening | Second Great Awakening

Thank God, Churches are Dying... and Living

Exploring the space between decline and renewal in American Christianity...

March 9, 2020
Rush

health care | healthcare reform | US history

“The seeds of compassion and duty”: An Early Americanist Take on Healthcare

Imagining a future for American healthcare by revisiting our past...

March 5, 2020
Marvel

Film | Ernest Becker | pop culture

Film Resurrections and the Denial of Death

Exploring the resurrection trope in American cinema and what it reveals about us...

March 2, 2020
Second Coming

Mormons | apocalyptic theology

The Daybells and Latter-day Saint Apocalypticism

Exploring a subculture of apocalyptic prophecy on the margins of the LDS Church...

February 27, 2020