Sightings Articles
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Civil Religion as a Gateway to Christian Nationalism
The inclusion of “under God” in the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance was a sectarian move whose exclusionary effects are increasingly evident in today's religious landscape....
June 20, 2024
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A Global Perspective on American Evangelical Politics
White American evangelical Trumpism is a lot more white and more American than it is evangelical....
September 13, 2022
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Duty! Thou Sublime and Mighty Name
In responding to duty, we testify to our worth and our dignity as free human beings....
June 28, 2022
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Partisanship in Religion and Politics
Many lament the obliteration of bipartisan politics: too few acknowledge it as a casualty of the idea that America is a "Christian nation"....