Sightings Articles
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The Long Road to Iowa
Neatly dividing "political evangelicals" from "religious evangelicals" is an impossible task....
January 17, 2024
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Time in a Prophetic Frame
Many voices in America today claim the mantle of prophecy; the differences between them are illuminating...
February 22, 2021
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Symphonic Politics, Sibelius, and the Immanent Messiah
Our country cannot afford to wait for a miracle. The music of Jean Sibelius teaches us what the alternatives might look like....
January 11, 2021
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When Christ and Trump are Kings
Twin chants at a recent Trump rally shed light on the religious right's push towards nationalism...
December 3, 2020
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Stop Asking What the Bible Means to the President
A historian of the bible in America reflects on what Trump’s recent photo-op in front of St. John’s Church does (and doesn’t) mean...
June 8, 2020
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Playing the Ostrich; or, How Not to Think about QAnon
American conspiracy theories and the task of the scholar of religion...
May 18, 2020
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Scapegoating Mitt Romney
What Mitt Romney's disinvitation from CPAC 2020 tells us about the evolving role of religion in public life for the Christian Right...
March 12, 2020
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General Suleimani, U.S. Policy, and Jus ad Vim
Why we need a better way of talking about the use of “force short of war”...
January 9, 2020
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Free Speech in Poetry and in Prose
What the President's executive order to combat anti-Semitism teaches us about the abuse and misunderstanding of free speech...
December 16, 2019
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Paula White and the Mainstreaming of American Pentecostalism
Trump's appointment of Paula White is an indicator of shifting lines within the Christian right...