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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
As you probably know by now, Pope Francis has died. (Mere hours after meeting with—how is this real life—US Vice President James Donald Bowman, aka James David Hamel, who prefers to be called JD Vance…
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Religion Dispatches
So Utah passed a bill designed to “address” ritual abuse this week. That is a thing that happened in the year of someone’s LORD 2025. Isn’t ritual abuse bad, you might be wondering? Don’t we want to…
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Religion Dispatches
During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans will maintain access to medication abortions if he’s confirmed as the next commissioner…
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