Sightings Articles
The Silent Minority
America’s largest ethnic group has assimilated so well that people barely notice it. So ran a headline in The Economist (Feb 7)....
February 16, 2015
A Reply to Jean-Luc Marion’s “After ‘Charlie Hebdo,’ Islam Must Critique Itself” -- Bruce Lincoln and Anthony C. Yu
Charlie Hebdo...
February 12, 2015
Theology Now -- Martin E. Marty
Baillie, Balthasar, Barth, Berdyaev, Bonhoeffer, Brunner, Bultmann—to mention only the “B-team,” were coin-of-the-realm giants in the mid-20th century theological revival. Add Niebuhr(s), Murray. Tillich and a few Liberation Theologians, and you will...
February 9, 2015
The Churches Warm Up to Climate Change -- Cory Labrecque
When climate change protesters marched on Wall Street last September, their charge was to bring attention to a global urgency that requires a deep and abiding transformation of the way we think about, invest in, and relate to the environment. Layi...
February 5, 2015
After the "Charlie Hebdo" Massacre: Islam Must Open Itself To Critique -- Jean-Luc Marion
This article was originally published in French in Le Point. ...
January 29, 2015
Football and Ethics -- Martin E. Marty
What’s God Got to Do with Football Devotion?...
January 26, 2015
#JeSuisCharlie: Blasphemy in Hinduism and Censorship in India
Free speech, under attack in France, is also contested in India, where violence ignited by videos or messages deemed “blasphemous” or “insulting” by orthodox Hindus has long been a reality. In 2014 alone, eighty-five religion-related attacks on the m...
January 22, 2015
Ending Female Genital Cutting: Is Political Correctness Getting in the Way?
Discussions about female genital cutting have been controversial because they are embedded in moral universalist and cultural relativist positions...