Sightings Articles

Buddy

Baby boomers

Memory Full: Boomers and the Art of Never Going Away

How an aging generation is preserving its youthfulness ... forever...

January 20, 2020
UMC

United Methodists

United Methodist Schism and the ‘Protocol’ of 2020

What does the most recent proposal for splitting the UMC actually achieve?...

January 15, 2020
pews

Christianity | worship | secularism

Sunday Is ...

Are traditional holy days still something more than just any other day?...

January 13, 2020
Suleimani

Iran | Just War | religious ethics | Donald Trump

General Suleimani, U.S. Policy, and Jus ad Vim

Why we need a better way of talking about the use of “force short of war”...

January 9, 2020
nagasaki

Iran | religious ethics

How War Bypasses Morality

Examining how wartime decisions often end up violating our ethical beliefs about war...

January 6, 2020
nativity

Advent | political religion

Disruptive Religion

Why we sometimes need religion to offend us and disturb the status quo...

January 2, 2020
Xmas

Christmas

Everything’s on Sale: Appropriations of Religion

A sighting of the unseen forces of religion at work during the holidays and what they tell us about this age...

December 23, 2019
Star

Judaism | Anti-Semitism | Jews

Jews and Judaism, Religion and Identity

Placing President Trump's executive order to combat anti-Semitism in the long history of debates about Jewish identity...

December 19, 2019
EO

Donald Trump | Anti-Semitism | Judaism | politics

Free Speech in Poetry and in Prose

What the President's executive order to combat anti-Semitism teaches us about the abuse and misunderstanding of free speech...

December 16, 2019
Dopamine

Technology | Social Media

Dopamine Fasting: Silicon Valley’s Not-So-New Trend

Does the new practice of dopamine fasting have religious roots?...

December 11, 2019