Sightings Articles

We Are Building Up A New World
Critical Race Theory’s Progressive Vision vs the Southern Baptist Convention’s Regressive Politics...
October 28, 2021

Justice and the Devil in America
A controversy around the symbolisms of evil conceals the hardening of America's heart...
April 26, 2021

A Summer Correspondence
The decision to rename a dormitory reveals the fragility of historical nuance...
September 21, 2020

The Art of the Social Contract
The art that is helping us see the failures of America's social contract...
July 20, 2020

Protest and the Raging Messianic
How do our responses to pestilence and protest reflect the value of human life in our religious imagination?...
June 5, 2020

Asking the Right Questions about Riots
Contemplating the questions we should and shouldn't be asking about riots by looking to the example of Martin Luther King Jr. ...
June 4, 2020

Protests, Looting, and Iconoclasm
Considering how Christian acts of iconoclasm may illuminate the aims and effects of property damage and looting during protests...
June 4, 2020

We Need Art to Help Us Heal, Now More than Ever
An invitation to process pain and to heal through the viewing and contemplation of contemporary Black art...
June 4, 2020

Vandals and the Hands of Christ in the World
Exploring what Christian theology might have to say about the looting and vandalism that has accompanied many protests around the country...