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While Americans struggle to meet their basic needs and keep themselves and their families safe from the coronavirus, the U.S. Right is capitalizing on widespread distress and misinformation to advance…

Editors from the International Press Institute told American journalists “that Donald Trump’s hostility toward the free press is emboldening dictators and autocratic leaders across the globe.” Human…

It’s perhaps a sign of the times that two of the four articles in the Washington Post’s “Outlook” section dedicated to the 500 th anniversary of the Reformation are actually about the role of…

What inspired you to write Why Horror Seduces? The book is based on years of research, but it grows out of personal curiosity and fascination. What’s with all the monsters and scary stories in popular…

Confession: I hold an ordination from a denomination that, broadly speaking, does not ordain women. I have benefited greatly from this ministerial minority status. It propelled me forward in attending…

Since January, opening email yields at least one urgent call to action from any number of progressive groups. As a journalist who’s spent the better part of a decade reporting on the LGBT community, I…

Dylan Krieger writes of the prophets who eat scrolls and insist the parchment tastes just like the honey of that many-mansioned heaven in the by-and-by sky.

John Dominic Crossan: “Scholarly research on the Bible is inadequate or irrelevant if at least some of the scholars do not communicate their insights to laypeople who are eager to think and who are aware that baptism is not the same as lobotomy.”

International At the Washington Post, Max Bearak takes note of the “rising global tide of crackdowns on LGBT communities” that we have been documenting in Religion Dispatches’ weekly Global LGBT Recap…