Sightings Articles
The Mythology and Mythologies of the Great American Novel
The roots and dangers of the quest for America's literary masterpiece...
February 15, 2021
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
Monuments, Memorials, and the Resacralization of Space
The landscape of public space shapes collective understandings of the past...
February 8, 2021
The Blessed Return of Going Through the Motions
President Biden's inauguration and the rituals of normalcy...
February 4, 2021
Is This America?
A distinction may bring some clarity to disagreements about the meaning of the Capitol riots...
February 1, 2021
The American Politics of Coptic Martyrdom
Coptic Christian immigrants embracing conservatism navigate the intersection between race and religion...
January 28, 2021
We Hold These Truths
An Augustinian meditation on the communal dispositions required for democracy...
January 25, 2021
Science and Religion in Times of Plague
Calvin and Luther warn against the simplistic assumption that religious liberty is opposed to medical expertise...
January 21, 2021
Of Memphis and Washington
White Supremacy's desecration of sacred spaces, in 1968 and today...
January 18, 2021
A Biblical Attack on the Capitol?
The alternative facts and faulty exegesis behind Evangelicals' "Biblical worldview."...