Sightings Articles
The Birth of “Pharmaco-Hasidism”
Young Jews are eager to employ hallucinogenics in their practice: they may be connecting to a tradition they think they've left behind....
March 3, 2022
The Great Defiance: Religious Objections and Vaccine Mandates
Vaccination defiance among healthcare workers reveals much about how many Americans think about themselves and their faith....
February 23, 2022
The Christian Who Was a Church of One
In a world that seems to me to offer precious little of the mantle of prophecy, I offer you William Blake....
February 17, 2022
Our Comedy of Errors?
Hapless, misinformed, and zealous, we are living in a comedy of errors, and possibly a deadly one....
February 10, 2022
Are Vaccine Exemptions Actually Religious?
Large-scale vaccine skepticism is a new phenomenon, but is it a religious phenomenon?...
February 4, 2022
Midnight Mass and the Spectre of Terror
A generation has grown up under the shadow of post-9/11 preoccupation with Islam and Muslims: Midnight Mass presents something far more interesting ...
January 21, 2022
Epiphanies Of Power and/or Goodness
The epiphany of this January is at root about the profound need to civilize the nation....
January 12, 2022
The Revolutionary Joy of Desmond Tutu
There is a danger in softening Tutu’s legacy, but we make the same mistake in the opposite direction if we forget his contagious, all-embracing joy....
January 6, 2022
The Power of Belief in Conspiracy Theories
People who subscribe to QAnon maintain that Donald Trump remains the “true” president... why would anyone believe this?...