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Religion Dispatches

Illinois Bishop Greets Marriage Equality with Exorcism

Bishop Paprocki says God told him to pray “Be gone, Satan”
Peter Montgomery
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John Wigger

Political Research Associates
John Wigger is Professor of History at the University of Missouri. His research focuses on American religious and cultural history. He is the author of American Saint (OUP, 2009) and Taking Heaven by…
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Religion Dispatches

Are Messianic Jews Unfairly Shunned by Jews?

A Jewish news outlet suggests they might be.
Sarah Posner
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The Explanation for Everything

Ten questions for the author of a novel inspired by a landmark Intelligent Design case discusses what it’s like to create a Darwinian blowhard, and more.
Lauren Grodstein
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Religion Dispatches

Kenneth Copeland's Protectors

How does the godfather of the prosperity gospel keep getting away with it?
Sarah Posner
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Religion Dispatches

How Not to Support Obamacare

Why can’t the Dems seem to be able to muster an ethical argument for Affordable Care?
Peter Laarman
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Forty Years Ago, the Worst Mass Murder of LGBT People in the U.S.

The New Orleans gay bar that burned in 1973 housed an MCC congregation.
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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Will Mindfulness Change the World? Daniel Goleman Isn’t Sure

Daniel Goleman is best known as the author of Emotional Intelligence, the title of which has now become part of our everyday vocabulary. Since that book, Goleman has applied the basic idea—that we…
Jay Michaelson
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Wendy Doniger

Political Research Associates
Wendy Doniger (B.A., Radcliffe; Ph. D., Harvard University; D. Phil., Oxford University) in 1984 was elected President of the American Academy of Religion, in 1989 a Fellow of the American Academy of…
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Bush Fundraises For Those Who Want to Fix the "Blindness of the Jews"

Abe Foxman expresses disappointment.
The Editors
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