Sightings Articles
Change in Church and State Relations
Concepts and practices of religious freedom...
December 14, 2015
"Religious Freedom" After 50 Years?
December 7th: Sightings notes the date because fifty years ago today, by a vote of 2,308 to 70, the “Council Fathers” at the Second Vatican Council voted to promulgate Dignitatis Humanae, “On the Dignity of the Human Person.”Regarded as one of the ma...
December 7, 2015
Public Orthodoxy
When a message from Public Orthodoxy reaches us, we read it and resolve to do better at sighting Eastern Orthodoxy for this e-column. The subtitle of Public Orthodoxy is “Bridging the Ecclesial, the Academic and the Political,” which points to three ...
November 16, 2015
Missionaries Come Home
Newspeople and commentators outside the South ordinarily pay little attention to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). They find little reason to notice this church body if they are geographically remote from, or see the SBC as remote from public af...
November 2, 2015
Confession Today
A mission of Sightings and the special mission assigned me here is to relate faith and faiths, as mediated by media, to public life. ...