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Religion Dispatches

'Almost Like Praying': The Religious Work of 'Hamilton' Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

In the wake of catastrophic destruction in Puerto Rico Lin-Manuel Miranda, the force behind Hamilton, has used theological rhetoric, declaring that Trump was “going straight to hell” for his lack of…
Spencer Dew
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Religion Dispatches

The Religious Right Has Come Out of the Closet

There’s a certain satisfaction for those of us who came of age at the time of the Christian Right’s ascendency to see such widespread acknowledgement of what many of us knew all along—that the so…
Patricia Miller
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Religion Dispatches

Sydney's Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To 'No' Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies: “It is a consequence of our discipleship to uphold the gift of marriage as God has designed it.”
Peter Montgomery
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Mark Sameth

Political Research Associates
Rabbi Mark Sameth is the author of The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God (Wipf & Stock, 2020) and The New York Times Op-Ed “Is God Transgender?” (2016). He can be found on his…
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Religion Dispatches

"Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I'll Tell You What You Believe About God": A Missouri Pilgrimage

Three years post-uprising, the community still struggles to be seen.
Anita Little
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Religion Dispatches

Three Takeaways from the Contraceptive Mandate Religious Liberty Debacle

There were two major winners in Trump’s long-expected executive order to gut ObamaCare’s contraceptive mandate: the Catholic bishops, who ginned up this particular culture-war debacle in the first…
Patricia Miller
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Religion Dispatches

Puerto Rico Prays for Truth: Reporter David Begnaud's Sacred Mission

Even as Trump threatens to withdraw federal aid from storm-devastated Puerto Rico, ranting on twitter as he witlessly embraces the villain’s role in this ongoing tragedy, heroes have emerged—even…
Spencer Dew
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Zoé Samudzi

Political Research Associates

Research Fellow

Zoé Samudzi is a doctoral student at the University California—San Francisco studying the Herero & Nama genocide. She is a contributing writer for Jewish Currents, and her work has appeared in The New…
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Religion Dispatches

Dear Mr. President: We Get It. You Really Love White Conservative Christians

The Trump administration’s latest gift to its far-right, white conservative Christian base is the DOJ’s “religious freedom” memo, which is actually a pair of documents purporting to instruct all…
Sunnivie Brydum
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Religion Dispatches

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward 'Illiberalism' of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

The European Lesbian* Conference, which brought together 500 activists, artists, academics, politicians, journalistas and civil society leaders in Vienna ended on Sunday. At 76 Crimes, Dominique…
Peter Montgomery
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