Sightings Articles
Disruptive Religion
Why we sometimes need religion to offend us and disturb the status quo...
January 2, 2020
A Voice on Trial
Two weeks ago, Rev. William J. Barber II was convicted on charges of trespassing in the North Carolina State Legislative Building. ...
June 20, 2019
What Trump's "Lies" Have to Do with (Political) Religion
president-as-crime-boss analogy...
April 19, 2018
“Cross”-examining the Biblical Witness in War for the Planet of the Apes
Editor's Note: With today's issue, Sightings launches a new thematic series on the relationships between religion and science fiction—both terms broadly understood. Our first installment in this series comes from returning Sightings contributor Audre...
October 19, 2017
The Front National and the "Religion" of Ethnic Nationalism
The radical right is increasingly mainstream throughout Europe. Sarah de Lange notes how, since the 1990s, radical right-wing parties have joined coalition governments in Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, and...
April 20, 2017
After Trump
Editor's note. This is the fourth and last installment in our series on the Trump phenomenon, or “Trumpism,” and what it reveals about the relationship between religion and politics in America today. Special thanks to our previous contributors: Roger...