Sightings Articles

Two children in striped shirts look out the window at trees and a brick building.

ethics | environmentalism | anthropocentrism

In Short Measures Life May Perfect Be

If what makes human life sublime is complete, without the need for growth and endurance across time, this is exactly the sort of thinking our planet needs....

February 15, 2024
burnt amazon forrest

environmentalism | political religion | social justice

Human Goods, Environmental Evils

The same mastery of nature (human and nonhuman) that has made civilization possible now imperils us....

June 16, 2022
window

Coronavirus | environmentalism

Patience in the Pandemic

Hurrying to wait in the time of COVID-19...

April 2, 2020

Dakota Access Pipeline | environmentalism | Faith Spotted Eagle | Native Americans | sacred space | Sioux Nation | Standing Rock

Sacred Sites Violated

What if the Sioux Nation decided to build a pipeline through Arlington Cemetery? This question from Faith Spotted Eagle—who lacks a Ph.D. in comparative religion and who would never be employed to teach the phenomenology of burial ritual—got at the h...

February 13, 2017