Sightings Articles
Attention, Please
A culture of distraction may detract from religiosity and lead to lazy secularism....
September 22, 2022
Common Sense and the 2020 Election
How do screens change our sense of national community?...
October 12, 2020
Tools for Studying Pandemic Religion
What can we learn from the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) about sighting and understanding religion during and after the pandemic? ...
July 13, 2020
Hip Hop and Christian Conversion Narratives
What do Kanye and Hip Hop have to do with Augustine of Hippo?...
January 30, 2020
Dopamine Fasting: Silicon Valley’s Not-So-New Trend
Does the new practice of dopamine fasting have religious roots?...
December 11, 2019
Theologizing Virtual Reality
Dead chickens should not garner the attention of the United States Supreme Court. You would think not, but you'd be wrong. In 1946, United States v. Causby went before the Supreme Court. Dead chickens—and modern technology—were at the center of t...
July 25, 2019
Mr. Zuckerberg, Meet Martin Luther
“Move fast and break things.” Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, used to rally his developers with these words. Not so much anymore. In recent years, Facebook has more than proven its ability to wreak havoc at a rapid pace. Increas...
February 4, 2019
Social Media and Sin
Facebook has come under fire of late for its actions (or inaction) surrounding Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But the problems with the social media network, and other platforms like it, run much deeper. Indeed, Sean ...
April 5, 2018
AlphaGo's Victory Over Korean Go-Master Showcases Western vs. Neo-Confucian Values
In a historical milestone for Artificial Intelligence (AI), AlphaGo, an updated (General) AI developed by Google’s DeepMind unit, challenged Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol, and handily won, 4 to 1. Go is a game with a nearly infinite number of possi...