Sightings Articles
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Memory Full: Boomers and the Art of Never Going Away
How an aging generation is preserving its youthfulness ... forever...
January 20, 2020
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United Methodist Schism and the ‘Protocol’ of 2020
What does the most recent proposal for splitting the UMC actually achieve?...
January 15, 2020
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Sunday Is ...
Are traditional holy days still something more than just any other day?...
January 13, 2020
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General Suleimani, U.S. Policy, and Jus ad Vim
Why we need a better way of talking about the use of “force short of war”...
January 9, 2020
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How War Bypasses Morality
Examining how wartime decisions often end up violating our ethical beliefs about war...
January 6, 2020
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Disruptive Religion
Why we sometimes need religion to offend us and disturb the status quo...
January 2, 2020
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Everything’s on Sale: Appropriations of Religion
A sighting of the unseen forces of religion at work during the holidays and what they tell us about this age...
December 23, 2019
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Jews and Judaism, Religion and Identity
Placing President Trump's executive order to combat anti-Semitism in the long history of debates about Jewish identity...
December 19, 2019
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Free Speech in Poetry and in Prose
What the President's executive order to combat anti-Semitism teaches us about the abuse and misunderstanding of free speech...
December 16, 2019
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Dopamine Fasting: Silicon Valley’s Not-So-New Trend
Does the new practice of dopamine fasting have religious roots?...