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Religion Dispatches

Would the End of Birthright Citizenship Be So Terrible?

It may feel like a technical doctrine of little relevance, but a disturbing thought exercise reveals what, exactly, we would lose.
The question is no longer purely hypothetical. The Supreme Court heard arguments this spring in Trump v. Barbara on whether the executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of…
Scot Nakagawa
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Religion Dispatches

The Fake Faiths of Our Founders?

DOD celebrates America's 250th by kicking Congregationalists, Deists, and Unitarians off recognized religions list
Every Pete Hegseth story somehow becomes a story about Christian nationalism, but few are as on the nose as last week’s. The Pentagon announced the culling of the US military’s list of recognized…
Thomas Lecaque
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Franklin Washington and Jefferson with clown noses in front of a background of red crosses
Religion Dispatches

Celebrating the Mysterious Depth of Human Life, Magnifica Humanitas Misses an Opportunity

Advancing our moral conversation about technology, it ignores what it means to be a diverse human family.
Watching Pope Leo XIV announce and release the first encyclical letter of his papacy last week felt achingly surreal. In our age of rapid technology, livestreaming and immediate access build an aura…
Jacob J. Erickson
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three skulls with moss growing on them
Religion Dispatches

Can Silicon Valley Solve America's Housing Crisis (and the Aging Process) With Utopian Cities?

There’s always a darker side to building a new city upon a hill.
In a recent New York Times “Ideas” piece , “Maybe America Needs Some New Cities,” housing and urban development reporter Conor Dougherty writes of a new kind of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship that…
Robert M. Geraci
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Religion Dispatches

Leo XIV Links AI to Histories of Enslavement and Exploitation

Pope advocates for human dignity in an age of "artificial intelligence"
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical this week, on the 135th anniversary of his eponymous predecessor’s landmark Rerum Novarum , or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor . And like Leo XIII…
Roopika Risam
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human hand reaches for robot hand
Religion Dispatches

End Times on the National Mall

Masquerading as official publications, Rededicate 250 featured ideas once relegated to fringe websites.
Unlike the coverage of so many of its transgressions, reporting on the Trump administration’s “ America-themed prayer rally ,” known officially as Rededicate 250, was largely accurate. Event…
Karen E. Park
Emma Cieslik
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The White House burns during the War of 1812
Religion Dispatches

MAGA and Christian Nationalism Satire "The Boys" Leaves Us With a Superhero Dilemma

Can we build a better world through superheroes who pummel the bad guys... in the name of multi-racial democracy?
Please note: The following includes spoilers for the series finale of The Boys . “Jesus… as we all know was tortured, stripped of his dignity, and killed. And that’s all well and good,” says…
Noah Berlatsky
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Religion Dispatches

Is the Surge in Belief — Both Conventional and Bizarre — A Sign We're 'Sliding Back Into the Middle Ages'?

Probably not, but the concern itself suggests that modernity's acolytes are high on their own supply.
On May 17, the New York Times published a guest essay by Katya Ungerman—“We Are Sliding Back into the Middle Ages” — attributing a strange surge of both conventional religious observance and…
Daniel Wise
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Religion Dispatches

Another Mass Shooting. More Dead Muslims. This is America. 

We can make something new, but only by facing what has come before.
Another mass shooting. This is America . More dead Muslims. This is America. These are stories I have written about for a quarter of a century. The only reason it hasn’t been longer is because I’m…
Hussein Rashid
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Religion Dispatches

The Most Important Hearing on Palestinian Rights You've Never Heard Of

'This is literally our First Amendment rights under attack.'
In 2015 Illinois became the first state in the country to pass an anti-BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) law. A little over a decade later the state is in a fight to be the first to repeal one. At stake…
Annie Wilkinson
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