Sightings Articles
“Loving Justice” and the Refugees at Our Border
Does religion offer an alternative to the economic notions of justice that dominate how we think about the refugee crisis facing America?
November 18, 2019
Reading Arendt, Connecting the Dots
You may remember a moment during this news-saturated summer when suicide was atop the national headlines. Two famous people, Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, took their lives days apart, and for a brief period the events of the Trump administration g...
September 6, 2018
Rock, Paper, Scissors
With each passing day since the inauguration of Donald Trump the news cycle gets more punishing. Power is consolidated within the executive branch. The three-headed monster of authoritarianism, fear mongering and intimidation takes another step on it...
February 9, 2017
Refugee Crisis
The floods of ocean waters in tsunamis occasioned by earthquakes and the floods of humans as refugees occasioned by deathly regimes, revolutions, and food-and-shelter shortages, dominated recent headlines. What their topics have in common is a pro...