Sightings Articles

Hajj

Islam | pilgrimage | Saudi Arabia | Coronavirus

Halting the Hajj

Exploring the social, political, economic, and religious fallout of this year’s (all but) canceled pilgrimage...

July 2, 2020

mission trips | social justice | post-colonialism | Christian tourism | spiritual experience | compassion | globalizing economy | pilgrimage

I Survived a Short Term Mission Trip to Honduras! -- Brian Howell

This past summer, as I waited for my plane in Tegucigalpa, I browsed one of the airport’s many gift shops looking for something for my 14-year-old son and found, among the soccer jerseys and dried toads, a bright orange T-shirt emblazoned with a colo...

September 18, 2014