Sightings Articles

The Five Percenters: Racist Prison Gang or Persecuted Religion? -- Jonathan Moore

Prisons offer plentiful and self-contained opportunities to explore the limits of American religious freedom. One recent case involves the clash between prison officials in South Carolina and a group called the Five Percenters. First, a little his...

May 21, 1999

Religious Faith, Columbine, and the Media -- Jonathan Moore

We hesitate to add more to the monsoon of analysis following the school shootings in Littleton, Colorado. But faith figured significantly in the tragedy, even stirring some controversy, and the media had plenty of eyes and ears to notice. Given our m...

May 19, 1999