Sightings Articles
Religion, Democracy, and the Infinite Work of "the West"
In response to the crisis in Ukraine, the "West" is reaffirming its sense of identity and purpose with a newfound passion and urgency.
October 7, 2022
The Paradox of Organ Donations among Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel
In Israel, religion may help win the battle against organ shortage.
September 29, 2022
Attention, Please
A culture of distraction may detract from religiosity and lead to lazy secularism.
September 22, 2022
A Global Perspective on American Evangelical Politics
White American evangelical Trumpism is a lot more white and more American than it is evangelical.
September 13, 2022
What is Religious Appropriation and Why Does it Matter?
Accusations of cultural appropriation are increasingly common. But as a religious ethicist, I am not sure that is a good thing.
September 9, 2022
Reckoning with Re-education: Christianity’s Role in Native American Boarding Schools
American Christians must reckon with colonial history and cooperate with US government's “Road to Healing" initiative.
July 6, 2022
Weary (and Wary) of Decisions, Opinions, and Polemics? Religious Wisdom Would Like a Word
Religion that is prescribed by a privileged few to control the lives of the many obfuscates human dignity, limits and cheapens life abundant, substitutes the trivial for the transcendent, and elevates a cruel justice that cannot admit its need for mercy.
July 1, 2022
Bad Faith History: The End of Roe v. Wade and The Supreme Court’s Myth about Abortion in the United States
The world that the Court’s opinion imagines is intimately (and frighteningly) consonant with a white, Christian nationalist vision of our nation.
July 1, 2022
Duty! Thou Sublime and Mighty Name
In responding to duty, we testify to our worth and our dignity as free human beings.
June 28, 2022
Jihad Against Capitalism: FNKSDA and the Islamic Eco-socialist Movement in Indonesia
A group of environmental activists in Indonesia see Islamic values as necessitating a struggle for socialism.