Sightings Articles
Creating a Just Memory of the Pandemic
The importance of community art for processing our collective trauma...
April 1, 2021
Time, Plague, and Politics at Passover
A new administration, a new pace for the news cycle, and a very old truth...
March 29, 2021
Dying in America
The notion of the sublime can help us understand the magnitude of the pandemic's toll – and pushes us to rethink our approach to death....
March 22, 2021
How to Throw a Party in a Pandemic
Pastoral reflections on sharing good news in difficult times...
March 18, 2021
Science and Religion in Times of Plague
Calvin and Luther warn against the simplistic assumption that religious liberty is opposed to medical expertise...
January 21, 2021
Relief After Misfortune
A centuries-old Islamic literary genre may still offer consolation today...
January 4, 2021
Pandemic, Disability, and Worship Practices: What Next?
The debates around in-person worship services callously neglect worshippers with disabilities...
December 14, 2020
Solitary Refinement
What a Sufi spy from WWII can teach us about pandemic isolation ...
November 12, 2020
Faith and Disaster
A Kantian reflection on the disconnect between the world of facts and our actions...