Sightings Articles
Why White Evangelicals Stuck with Trump
What polling data tells us about why White Evangelical support for Trump was undiminished in the 2020 election...
February 11, 2021
Rachel Held Evans, Gone and Soon Forgotten?
Christian feminist author Rachel Held Evans inspired fervent love (and fervent opposition) in her decade of public wrestling with faith. Her shocking death at age 37 prompted those who loved her to gather in the place where most of them met her, the...
May 16, 2019
Faking the Bible
In each of these instances, those acquiring scroll fragments have made illuminating statements concerning their aims. ...
October 29, 2018
Evangelical Identity Crises
The champion among contenders for a “crisis” of experience and identity these years is American evangelicalism, which was born from the crises of the eighteenth century, and has been part of the Protestant package ever since. Polls, the press, and fo...
February 19, 2018
CCCU Tries to Thread the Needle
Issues of human sexuality continue to challenge evangelical Christian higher education organizations. As Martin E. Marty discussed in the October 17, 2016, issue of Sightings, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship recently announced a new policy to let g...
December 1, 2016
Evangelicals, LGBTQ+, and the Bible: What's (Been) Going On?
A look at Evangelical Christianity in America...
April 16, 2015