Sightings Articles
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 me...
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....
June 23, 2022
Human Goods, Environmental Evils
The same mastery of nature (human and nonhuman) that has made civilization possible now imperils us....
June 16, 2022
Thoughts and Prayers
As inhabitants of the only country in the world where school shootings are routine, the American faithful must not pray for serenity, but for courage....