Sightings Articles
The Passion of Bitcoin Jesus
In the rush to declare cryptocurrency a new religion, we risk overlooking these stories about how “old” religions are making sense of crypto....
May 15, 2024
Leaving Evangelicalism Behind
"The Exvangelicals" is both timely and superb: It deals with the issues that will decide the 2024 elections and discusses them with sensitivity, sophistication, and bravery.
March 14, 2024
The Long Road to Iowa
Neatly dividing "political evangelicals" from "religious evangelicals" is an impossible task....
January 17, 2024
Selling the Gospel of Positive Thinking
It's the everyday nature of the failures in "Salesman," a film about Bible salesmen, that makes the film so powerful and relatable....
October 5, 2023
Don't You Know There's a War On?
Thirty years after its publication, Culture Wars remains an essential guide to American politics....