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Religion Dispatches

Amid Anticipation of Government Disclosure, 'We Are Not Alone' Follows Those Who Claim Alien Contact Through Meditation

UFOs are in. The current wave of enthusiasm began in 2017 when major newspapers reported on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which spent $22 million investigating…
Joseph Laycock
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Lost and Found: Despite the Hope, Morality, and Meaning Inspired by Deconversion, Why is Respect Only For Those Who Find God?

It’s a story that can inspire even the most cynical among us. A person endures some difficult trial, such as an illness, injury, or other calamity. At their lowest point, they call to the divine. And…
Robert Repino
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Brant Rosen

Political Research Associates
Brant Rosen is the founding rabbi of the congregation Tzedek Chicago and the co-founder of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council.
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Dispelling the Zombie Myth of White Evangelical Support for Trump

Yesterday’s inaugural Republican primary event gave us our first official glimpse into the 2024 election-year love affair between Trump and White evangelicals —and judging from the results they haven…
Robert P. Jones
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Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Think

Do Israel’s actions in Gaza—the bombing of hospitals, apartments, and entire towns; policies of forced starvation and orders for people to flee their homes—constitute genocide? Last week South Africa…
Seth Sanders
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Joel Swanson

Political Research Associates
Joel Swanson is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He holds a PhD in the History of Judaism from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and his writing has appeared…
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Oklahoma Bill Would Violate Basic Freedoms, Rewrite the Ten Commandments

In the waning days of 2023, a banner year for Christian nationalism, Oklahoma State Representative Jim Olsen introduced a bill that would force every public school to display his version of the Ten…
Andrew L. Seidel
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Sophie Lewis

Political Research Associates
Sophie Lewis is a writer and recovering academic living in Philadelphia. Her essays appear everywhere from the London Review of Books to Harper’s , and you can follow her work at patreon.com…
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Zane McNeill

Political Research Associates
Zane McNeill has a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Central European University and is currently enrolled in law school at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He is the editor of Y…
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Religion Dispatches

All That Glitters is Monotheism — Ignorance of Paganism Isn't The Real Problem with David Wolpe's 'Atlantic' Essay

In a recent essay for The Atlantic , David Wolpe, a rabbi and visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, sizes up former president and insurrectionist Donald Trump as follows: “the lavishness of his…
Chrissy Stroop
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