Sightings Articles
The Art of the Social Contract
The art that is helping us see the failures of America's social contract...
July 20, 2020
Unexpected ‘Openings’ and the Essence of Religious Practice
What we learn about the nature of religious practice from the innovations and adaptations of religious communities during the pandemic...
June 18, 2020
America’s Sirens
A reflection on America’s mythology of sirens, and the need to rewrite it...
June 15, 2020
Stop Asking What the Bible Means to the President
A historian of the bible in America reflects on what Trump’s recent photo-op in front of St. John’s Church does (and doesn’t) mean...
June 8, 2020
Protest and the Raging Messianic
How do our responses to pestilence and protest reflect the value of human life in our religious imagination?...
June 5, 2020
Asking the Right Questions about Riots
Contemplating the questions we should and shouldn't be asking about riots by looking to the example of Martin Luther King Jr. ...
June 4, 2020
Protests, Looting, and Iconoclasm
Considering how Christian acts of iconoclasm may illuminate the aims and effects of property damage and looting during protests...
June 4, 2020
We Need Art to Help Us Heal, Now More than Ever
An invitation to process pain and to heal through the viewing and contemplation of contemporary Black art...