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Megan Goodwin

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Megan Goodwin is Senior Editor for Religion Dispatches, nerd-in-chief at Feral Nerd Consulting, and media & tech consultant for The Crossroads Project. Goodwin is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions (Rutgers 2020). With Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, she cohosts Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast; their first co-authored book, Religion Is Not Done With You, is now available through Beacon Press. Her next project is tentatively entitled Cults Incorporated: The Business of Bad Religion. Find her on bluesky @mpgphd.bsky.social.

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Religion Dispatches
A Black History Month retrospective on creativity, resilience, loss, and movement
In honor of Black History Month, we’re highlighting some of our favorite pieces from 2025 by or about Black experts, activists, and artists. What an incredible year for Black creativity, insight, and…
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Jalane Schmidt on Memory, Public Art, and Kara Walker’s “Unmanned Drone”
L os Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick opened MONUMENTS last week, an exhibit that reflects on the removal and recontextualization of decommissioned monuments. Two of the installations…
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Religion Dispatches
The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released by the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. “The Committee”—wow, is…
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