Sightings Articles
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The Difference between Heroes and Martyrs
When we memorialize victims of police violence, their past actions are irrelevant...
October 5, 2020
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On Zealous and Unrepentant Times
A Call to Self-Reflection amidst a Dangerous Devotion...
September 28, 2020
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A Summer Correspondence
The decision to rename a dormitory reveals the fragility of historical nuance...
September 21, 2020
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Imagining History without Heroes and Villains
What the Hebrew Bible can teach Americans about reckoning with the fallenness of our nation's founders...
September 14, 2020
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Labor Sunday
How American clergy in the 1920s turned from solidarity with workers to the mythology of the Good Christian Businessman...
September 7, 2020
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King Cotton
The United Methodist Church's roots witness against Cotton's attack on critical history...