Sightings Articles
Martin Luther King Jr. "Nonviolence Is the Sword That Heals
“I forgive you.” At the hearing for Dylann Roof, the daughter of Ethel Lance, one of the people Roof killed, told him: “I will never talk to her ever again, never be able to hold her again. I forgive you and have mercy on your soul. You hurt me, y...
January 14, 2016
The Bedrock of Civil Society? Mercy in the Face of Death
Death stalks the schools, cinemas, and churches of America. Not a day passes without some report of a madman killing innocent people and then turning his weapon on himself or cowardly fleeing the scene of the suffering he has sown. Most of the ti...
July 9, 2015
Marilynne Robinson's "Lila" -- Martin E. Marty
“If you could create a phenomenology of consciousness, some part of it would be the systematic falsification of the foundations of our culture.” After that sentence in literary-critic-ese, Novelist Marilynne Robinson next said to interviewer Wyatt Ma...