Sightings Articles

Coronavirus | Community | church

How to Throw a Party in a Pandemic

Pastoral reflections on sharing good news in difficult times...

March 18, 2021

Catholic Church | Republican Party | political partisanship | abortion

Assessing the Catholicity of a President

The political partisanship of the USCCB...

March 15, 2021

Religion and Literature | america | social justice

Thoreau's Ethics of Delight

Walden's religious quest for justice in a life of simple pleasures...

March 11, 2021

France | Islam | Islam of France | secularism | colonialism

The Problem with Freedom from Religion

Laïcité must reckon with the continuing impact of French colonial history ...

March 8, 2021

Israel | Hebrew Bible | political religion | right-wing | White evangelical Christians

Revisiting Jericho

The Biblical exegesis of violence in America and Israel...

March 4, 2021

Islam | France | Communism | right-wing

Islamo-Leftism?

The Cold War origins of anti-Islamic rhetoric...

March 1, 2021

political religion | history | American exceptionalism

The 1776 Report: Mind the (Religion) Gap

The revealing omissions in Trump's revisionist history of American Christianity ...

February 25, 2021

prophets | #blacklivesmatter | Donald Trump

Time in a Prophetic Frame

Many voices in America today claim the mantle of prophecy; the differences between them are illuminating...

February 22, 2021

Judaism | Coronavirus | Community

All Israel is Bound Together

Conversion and accessibility in the digital age...

February 18, 2021

Religion and Literature | American Civil War | Myth

The Mythology and Mythologies of the Great American Novel

The roots and dangers of the quest for America's literary masterpiece...