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  • Religious Liberty
    • How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?
      How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?
    • DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment
      DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment
    • Taxpayers Cannot Be Forced to Fund Churches—Even in a Pandemic
      Taxpayers Cannot Be Forced to Fund Churches—Even in a Pandemic
  • (A)theologies
    • DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment
      DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment
    • What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis
      What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis
    • New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country
      New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
      A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
    • Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
      Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
    • Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
      Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
  • New Books
    • Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%
      Whatever COVID-19 Brings, This Chaplain Wants You to Remember That the Death Rate is Ultimately 100%
    • How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote
      How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote
    • Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon
      Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon
  • Politics/Law
    • How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?
      How Do Evangelical Missionaries in Brazil Justify Risking Indigenous Lives During a Pandemic?
    • DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment
      DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment
    • What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis
      What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis

Evan Derkacz

Evan Derkacz, editor of Religion Dispatches, was previously an editor and writer at the award-winning web magazine AlterNet.org from 2003-2007. Before that, he worked for Tikkun magazine. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's, AlterNet, The Huffington Post and Start Making Sense (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004). He has been interviewed on Air America and Pacifica Radio.

History/TheologyMarch 29, 2019

Special Series: Can We Call the New Zealand Terrorist a ‘Christian’ White Nationalist?

By Evan Derkacz

In a series of pieces, RD contributors debate whether or not it’s proper and meaningful to label the ideology behind the terrorist attack on a New Zealand mosque “Christian” nationalism or simply “white nationalism.”

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CultureJune 19, 2018

Is Cardinal Dolan’s Pro-Life Piece More Evidence of Pro-Catholic Bias from RNS Publisher?

By Evan Derkacz

Credible allegations of bias toward Catholicism have been recently made against Religion News Service. It’s hard to read a recent regurgitation by Cardinal Dolan of the Bishop’s position on reproductive rights as anything other than confirmation of those allegations.

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OMFG, Politics/LawMay 29, 2018

Busting a Myth of Evangelical Glory Days … and More, in White Supremacy Quiz

By Evan Derkacz

If American evangelicals can no longer point to the “glory days” when they were on the right side of history with regard to race, then it becomes much more difficult to avoid a reckoning.

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Busting a Myth of Evangelical Glory Days … and More in White Supremacy Quiz
OMFGMay 29, 2018

Busting a Myth of Evangelical Glory Days … and More in White Supremacy Quiz

By Evan Derkacz

Last week, Justice Not Jails surveyed its subscribers to gauge their familiarity with the history…

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Archive, Sexuality/GenderJanuary 20, 2018

“They Have No Intention of Changing”: An Interview with Sex Abuse Expert on Pope’s Fierce Defense of Accused Bishop

By Evan Derkacz

Pope Francis, lauded by liberals for his sharp critiques of free market fundamentalism and environmental…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJanuary 6, 2017

Religious Liberty? It’s Simple, A Hasidic Woman Explains

By Evan Derkacz

To almost nobody’s surprise, 2016 ended with another confusing and un-American blow in the “religious freedom” vs. freedom…

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Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Remapping American ChristianitiesNovember 9, 2016

White Evangelicals Support Trump in Tremendous Numbers

By Evan Derkacz

“White evangelicals: you’ve decisively proven that you love your whiteness more than you love your black & brown brothers & sisters in Christ.”

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(A)theologies, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sexuality/Gender, The EditorsApril 8, 2015

Jews Violate Their Own Beliefs, Conservative Christians Say

By Evan Derkacz

A group of interdenominational conservative Christian clergy (plus professor) quietly released a statement on Passover/Good Friday titled,…

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Jesus Backs Gender Equality at the Oscars
Culture, OMFG, RD Blog, Sexuality/Gender, The EditorsFebruary 23, 2015

Jesus Backs Gender Equality at the Oscars

By Evan Derkacz

  In her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress, Patricia Arquette called for equal rights for…

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(A)theologies, OMFG, RD Blog, The EditorsJanuary 23, 2015

Tsarnaev Trial: Catholics Need Not Apply?

By Evan Derkacz

Last week on RD, Anthony Santoro presciently wrote: Since nearly half of [Massachusetts’s] six million residents identify as…

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