Sightings Articles
We Hold These Truths
An Augustinian meditation on the communal dispositions required for democracy...
January 25, 2021
Time in Coronatide: Why We’re Not Actually Living in Groundhog Day
Exploring how our experience of time is altered by the pandemic and what reflecting on ‘pandemic time’ (with some help from Augustine) might teach us ...
May 28, 2020
Hip Hop and Christian Conversion Narratives
What do Kanye and Hip Hop have to do with Augustine of Hippo?...
January 30, 2020
Social Media and Sin
Facebook has come under fire of late for its actions (or inaction) surrounding Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But the problems with the social media network, and other platforms like it, run much deeper. Indeed, Sean ...
April 5, 2018
"A Hypothetical Miracle That Could Occur": Rudy's Augustine and Trump's Future
Surely one of the stranger moments of the recently completed U.S. presidential election season was when, on Sunday, October 9th, 2016, Rudy Giuliani compared Donald Trump to Augustine of Hippo. Speaking to John Dickerson on CBS’s Face the Nation, Giu...