Religion Dispatches is an award-winning, independent, non-profit source
for expert analysis at the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.
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OUR MISSION
Religion Dispatches offers new ways to think about how religion works in (and on) American culture and politics.
We invite an open discussion of religious ideas, communities, and practices, rooted in leftist thought and an unwavering commitment to justice. Our writers confront and counter narratives of religious authoritarianism and those who enable it.
Religion Dispatches is not a religious publication: we are a publication about religion, written for anyone who wants to better understand how religion shapes our lives and our politics. The perspectives offered by RD are crucial to restoring compassion, critical thinking, and understanding within mainstream discourse about religion in what’s now the United States.
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OUR TEAM
Evan Derkacz
Executive Editor of Religion Dispatches since its founding in 2008, Evan was previously an editor for AlterNet and Tikkun Magazine.
Megan Goodwin
Senior Editor, Ashes Initiative
At RD, Megan specifically works with writers of color, queer writers, and/or disabled writers. You can pitch her at goodwin@religiondispatches.org.
Her research focuses on race, gender/sexuality, and American politics. She holds a PhD in American religion and culture from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Megan is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and Minority Religions (Rutgers 2020) and, with Dr. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Religion Is Not Done With You (Beacon 2024). She and Ilyse cohost the award-winning podcast Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion. Goodwin is Nerd-in-Chief at Feral Nerd Consulting and media & tech consultant for the Crossroads Project. Her next book is tentatively entitled Cults Inc.: The Business of Bad Religion.
Lisa Webster
Editor Emerita