Sightings Articles
How To Save Your Soul
“How to Save Your Soul in a Digital Age” is the bold banner on the cover of The American Scholar (Spring, 2016). No, the magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society is not turning evangelistic. On page 22 the editors simply translate author James McWillia...
April 4, 2016
Martin King Luther, Jr.: A Theologian with a Passion for Reconciliation
Remembering King...
March 31, 2016
Easter's deus ex machina
Even in Hollywood, Easter's approach rekindles hope. A hope for profit, that is, since films about Jesus seem to make their debut in late February. The Passion of Christ, for instance, was released in theaters on the 25th in 2004, the Son of God on t...
March 24, 2016
Wafer-Thin Commitment
Now and then a word or a phrase is understood to be so appropriate to a situation that it enters the vocabulary or catalog of slogans. ...
March 21, 2016
Morocco's Program for Securing Religious Toleration: A Model for the Region?
Since the turn of the 21st century, Arab states and societies have witnessed an increasing debate over Islam. ...
March 18, 2016
Futures Projected
Let’s step back this week from the overdoses of religion-in-public-life evidences which are candidates for Sightings these seasons and look for some perspective by using the rear-view mirror provided by historians, theologians, and ethicists. Recentl...
March 14, 2016
Texas' Latest Restrictions on Abortions Challenged in U.S. Supreme Court
Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt...
March 10, 2016
Death Books
Religion in political campaigns, church-state controversies, clerical abuse scandals, and abortion arguments, received due (and over-due?) attention in the media for another week. Having sighted more than enough items in those now-familiar fields, we...
March 7, 2016
Contemporary Hostility to the Free Exercise of Religion
Religious liberty is far down the path towards becoming a party-line culture war issue. ...
March 3, 2016
Social Media
Sometimes an observation of quiet despair in the lives of many people—not necessarily the mass of them—is inspired by subtly voiced phrases. ...