Sightings Articles
Love, Obligation, and Possibilities in the Time of COVID-19
Even in this season of prescribed social distancing, hope for our future emerges from our bonds with one another...
March 30, 2020
Measuring the Apocalypse
Where we will and won't find meaning in this global pandemic...
March 26, 2020
Pan-Nemesis: COVID-19 and Beyond
Do religious myths have anything to teach us during this present crisis?...
March 23, 2020
Faith in the Time of Coronavirus: The Power of Spacial Solidarity
How the global pandemic is reshaping the lives of communities of faith...
March 19, 2020
The Coronavirus and Us
Exploring the "ultimate dimensions" of COVID-19 as Americans prepare themselves for a season of quarantine and isolation...
March 16, 2020
Scapegoating Mitt Romney
What Mitt Romney's disinvitation from CPAC 2020 tells us about the evolving role of religion in public life for the Christian Right...
March 12, 2020
Thank God, Churches are Dying... and Living
Exploring the space between decline and renewal in American Christianity...
March 9, 2020
“The seeds of compassion and duty”: An Early Americanist Take on Healthcare
Imagining a future for American healthcare by revisiting our past...
March 5, 2020
Film Resurrections and the Denial of Death
Exploring the resurrection trope in American cinema and what it reveals about us...
March 2, 2020
The Daybells and Latter-day Saint Apocalypticism
Exploring a subculture of apocalyptic prophecy on the margins of the LDS Church...