Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson died yesterday, and there was much rejoicing—particularly among queer people from ...

"Joel's Army"—the militant Protestant movement that fueled both the January 6 insurrection and the recent political ...

It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland ...

The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released ...

This article includes analysis of ChatGPT use in classrooms. With due respect to the author: given its devastating and demonstrably racialized environmental impact, its replication of white supremacy ...

In today’s brave new world of fascism rebranded, white nationalism is trading in brown shirts for boot-cut jeans—and the new master race apparently shops at American Eagle. Because nothing says “the ...

It’s just another normal week in America, where the President is reposting—i.e. re-“Truth”ing—deepfake videos of ...

If Daniel Dennett is anything, he is a champion of the facts. The prominent philosopher of science is an advocate for hard-nosed empiricism, and as a leading New Atheist he calls for naturalistic ...

Security sells. That’s why, says retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong, despite his best-selling controversial books and popular speeches, his position on Jesus and the Christian church will ...

Avatars of Bronze Age Zionist social media accounts. To be sure, their themes of chauvinist triumphalism aren’t so different from what we’re hearing from Israeli government ministers or Christian ...

Religious freedom has been much in the news as the Trump administration has rolled out policies providing an earthly answer to the prayers of the Christian Right. It‘s a central issue in the ...