Sightings Articles

Islamophobia | gun violence | hope | climate change | suicide

Defiant Hope

Ed. Note: Today's column is the third in a three-part series by Divinity School faculty reflecting on the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand during Friday Prayer on March 15, 2019. Last Monday, Richard Rosengarten wrote about the challenges...

March 25, 2019

Hannah Arendt | nationalism | refugees | suicide | World War II

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

Ireland | priests | Roman Catholicism | sexual abuse | suicide

Suicide among Priests?

“Suicide is on the rise among Irish priests” is the kind of report which causes or should cause concern and a sense of crisis among Irish and non-Irish, priests and non-priests, Catholics and non-Catholics—anyone with humane instincts, empathic conce...

December 19, 2016

military chaplains | moral injury | PTSD | suicide | veterans

Moral Injury

Editor's note: Sightings will be taking a break in observance of Labor Day. We will return Thursday, September 8th. Moral injury is a recently diagnosed but agelessly known assault on the soul. While it cannot be isolated and defined as (relativel...

August 29, 2016