Sightings Articles
Taking Exception: How Muhammad Ali Transformed American Religion
The morning after he defeated Sonny Liston for the world’s heavyweight boxing championship in February, 1964, Cassius Clay confirmed that he was a Muslim, a convert to Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam. To a reporter who referred to him as a “card-ca...
June 9, 2016
Georgetown
In a comment to one of the many blog posts about a controversy concerning Georgetown University’s past with slavery, we read: “I did not enslave anyone. I did not profit from slavery.” Such an abrupt dismissal of the moral issues is alienating, but t...
June 6, 2016
Infallibility: Time To Find Another Term for This Doctrine?
This is not the first time that Küng has sought to encourage open and frank discussion of the doctrine of papal infallibility....
June 2, 2016
Two Religions Make News
two religions jarred each other in national big-news and comment-sources last Friday...
May 30, 2016
Explained: Donald Trump's Unlikely Support from White Evangelicals
Donald Trump is deeply divisive among white evangelical Christians. In a recent story on NPR, one evangelical called the billionaire New Yorker a “reprehensible” and “wicked” man. Even so, Trump has done well enough among conservative Christians to b...
May 26, 2016
Living Longer
“A Possible Benefit of Going to Church: A 33 Percent Chance of Living Longer.”...
May 23, 2016
A Theology of Popular Music, Arts and Culture
One of the greatest achievements in terms of the expressive culture of modernity is popular music. Much of the music of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s (social protest/soul, funk, reggae, rock, rap and punk) was made by young musicians (Jimi Hendrix, Nina S...