Sightings Articles

Sightings and Sorrows of Religion
While religion should motivate efforts to alleviate hatred and dehumanization, it often finds itself wrapped up in these social evils....
June 22, 2023

Human Goods, Environmental Evils
The same mastery of nature (human and nonhuman) that has made civilization possible now imperils us....
June 16, 2022

The Revolutionary Joy of Desmond Tutu
There is a danger in softening Tutu’s legacy, but we make the same mistake in the opposite direction if we forget his contagious, all-embracing joy....
January 6, 2022

On Prophetic Rage
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a prophetic rage that rejected the status quo and strove for a just and loving community: we should too....
October 21, 2021

Thoreau's Ethics of Delight
Walden's religious quest for justice in a life of simple pleasures...
March 11, 2021

Georgia's Senate Elections and the Life of the Black Church
Senator-elect Warnock's victory shows that the institution that led the fight for civil rights has just as much vitality as ever...
January 7, 2021

Catholicism and its Disconnects
The most recent Papal encyclical highlights longstanding fault lines in contemporary Catholicism...
November 16, 2020

Labor Sunday
How American clergy in the 1920s turned from solidarity with workers to the mythology of the Good Christian Businessman...
September 7, 2020

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...