Sightings Articles
"Charlie Hebdo's" Haunting Question: Should We Have the Right To Blaspheme?
Geoffrey Stone's comments were first delivered in early March when he introduced a University of Chicago event featuring Charlie Hebdo journalist, Zineb El Rhazoui....
April 23, 2015
Vatican and Sisters
Now and then I make visits, not visitations, to Catholic premises, usually university campuses. I started doing so in the years of the Second Vatican Council, some fifty years ago. At that time, a Protestant in such precincts was a bit unfamiliar, ev...
April 20, 2015
Evangelicals, LGBTQ+, and the Bible: What's (Been) Going On?
A look at Evangelical Christianity in America...
April 16, 2015
Israel: Two Case Studies in Politics and Freedom of Religion
Two recent debates in Israel have drawn a lot of attention, raising questions about freedom of religion in cases in which the religious practices of one group directly impacts other groups. The first is a debate concerning the desire of Women of t...
April 9, 2015
Water: Economic Commodity or Human Right? -- Christiana Z. Peppard
Water is essential to biotic existence, and it is not a value-free substance, even as the availability of fresh, clean water is often taken for granted in the United States. In other parts of the world, billions of people lack potable water; their li...
April 2, 2015
Curing and Healing
“It is strange that healing is absent from medical discourse today. Cure, resolution, recovery, and rehabilitation retain semantic currency; you can find these words throughout the medical textbooks and professional health literature.” But, continues...
March 30, 2015
Musing on the Dharma through a Flower: A Medieval Japanese Arhat from the Smart Museum
Upon closer examination......