Sightings Articles
Memory Full: Boomers and the Art of Never Going Away
How an aging generation is preserving its youthfulness ... forever...
January 20, 2020
United Methodist Schism and the ‘Protocol’ of 2020
What does the most recent proposal for splitting the UMC actually achieve?...
January 15, 2020
Sunday Is ...
Are traditional holy days still something more than just any other day?...
January 13, 2020
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
How War Bypasses Morality
Examining how wartime decisions often end up violating our ethical beliefs about war...
January 6, 2020
Disruptive Religion
Why we sometimes need religion to offend us and disturb the status quo...
January 2, 2020
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
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
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 Fasting: Silicon Valley’s Not-So-New Trend
Does the new practice of dopamine fasting have religious roots?...