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Evan Derkacz

Executive Editor of Religion Dispatches

Evan Derkacz has been the editor of Religion Dispatches since its launch in 2008, before which he was an editor at Tikkun magazine and AlterNet. When not busy editing pieces on evicting white Jesus or the ex-president’s theological devotion to border walls, he has served as a judge for foundation grants, the National Magazine Awards, and the Webby Awards; consulted for the Social Science Research Council’s religion and digital media programs; and led workshops for scholars seeking to write for the broader public. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, AlterNet, The Huffington Post and elsewhere. 

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Religion Dispatches
“Here’s the latest in the assault on liberal democracy,” writes Andrew Sullivan, as he decries the recent student shut-down of controversial author Charles Murray’s talk at Middlebury College earlier…
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Religion Dispatches
To almost nobody’s surprise, 2016 ended with another confusing and un-American blow in the “religious freedom” vs. freedom freedom category. As Slate’s tireless Mark Joseph Stern noted, a “bizarre…
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Religion Dispatches
“White evangelicals: you’ve decisively proven that you love your whiteness more than you love your black & brown brothers & sisters in Christ.”
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