Sightings Articles
Donald Trump and the Exceptions of American Evangelicalism
Evangelicals see themselves as exceptional in both respects: as not typical of American society as it currently is governed by loathsome elites, and as surpassing that society in virtue. ...
October 13, 2023
Epiphanies Of Power and/or Goodness
The epiphany of this January is at root about the profound need to civilize the nation....
January 12, 2022
The 1776 Report: Mind the (Religion) Gap
The revealing omissions in Trump's revisionist history of American Christianity ...
February 25, 2021
On Gods and Kings
How are we to “sight” the always intricate, sometimes chaotic, and too often hidden relationship between religious convictions and political order? More often than not it requires piecing together a jigsaw puzzle with hints from hither and yon, in bo...
January 28, 2019
Taking Exception: How Muhammad Ali Transformed American Religion
The morning after he defeated Sonny Liston for the world’s heavyweight boxing championship in February, 1964, Cassius Clay confirmed that he was a Muslim, a convert to Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam. To a reporter who referred to him as a “card-ca...