Sightings Articles
Mary Douglas and the Ritual of Halloween
Halloween typifies the kinds of symbolic rituals present in our fragmented experience of modern life....
October 31, 2022
Beginning Again... and Again... and Again
We hoped that “Back to School” rituals might turn the page, but beginnings are never as straightforward and uncomplicated as we wish they could be....
September 30, 2021
The Blessed Return of Going Through the Motions
President Biden's inauguration and the rituals of normalcy...
February 4, 2021
Euthanasia, Dignity, and “Spirituality Lite”
Those (of us) who value the ethical but are not ethicists have good reason to pay attention to those philosophers, theologians, and, yes, ethicists, whose vocation it is to deal with values, whether these have to do with ordinary problems and dilemma...
July 10, 2017
Martin Luther King Jr. "Nonviolence Is the Sword That Heals
Forgiveness and mercy...
January 14, 2016