Sightings Articles
Pandemic Preaching
Exploring homiletical adaptation and invention in the midst of the global pandemic...
April 16, 2020
Rev. Dr. William Barber and the Sound of Transcendence
In his address to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, then president of the North Carolina Conference of the NAACP and leader of the Moral Mondays Movement, proclaimed, “like our forefathers and foremothers, we...
June 15, 2017
"Shocking" News on Worship and the Public
The focus of Sightings is on the “public,” as in “public religion,” a concept which often leads to discussion of “church and state” affairs or “religion and public life.” The “private religion” of the sanctuary and temple does not often make news. Ye...