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    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
    • Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
      Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
  • Politics/Law
    • What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change
      What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change
    • Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
      Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
    • As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward
      As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward
  • The End of Roe
    • Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
      Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
    • Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
      Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
    • It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
      It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
      Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
    • Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
      Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
    • It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
      It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
    • How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
      How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
    • Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
      Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?

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.

Guest BloggersMay 13, 2010

Dawkins and Hitchens Hope to Arrest the Pope

By Evan Derkacz

Two of the most high profile ‘new atheists’ have retained a team of lawyers.

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderSeptember 16, 2009

Exploiting Health Care Debate to Restrict Abortion?

By Evan Derkacz

Over at Salon.com, Frances Kissling has fighting words for self-proclaimed “religious progressives” who are pressing to bypass compromises and including even greater restrictions on abortion.

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Politics/LawJuly 9, 2009

WHO IS JEW RUN FOR PREZDNET?

By Evan Derkacz

Are those emails confronting the supposedly mysterious questions surrounding Barack Obama—the story of his life, his beliefs, his complexion—bigoted? Here’s the litmus test…

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Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJuly 3, 2009

Historical Revisionism Jujitsu: Religious Right Celebrates End of Interracial Marriage Ban

By Evan Derkacz

By “celebrating” liberal victories years after they’re even remotely controversial, the religious right rewrites itself into history’s good book while continuing to play to the worst elements in our contemporary culture.

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Culture, Politics/LawJuly 3, 2009

Video: E.J. Dionne on the End of the Religious Right

By Evan Derkacz

Washington Post columnist and author of Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right, lectures on the “post-religious right” era.

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Culture, Politics/LawMay 22, 2009

Obama Nominates Jesus to Supreme Court… [Video]

By Evan Derkacz

… GOP Opposed.

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Guess Who’s More Popular Than Jesus?
CultureFebruary 24, 2009

Guess Who’s More Popular Than Jesus?

By Evan Derkacz

A new Harris poll reveals America’s heroes…and those who are heroes no more.

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Culture, Politics/LawDecember 30, 2008

Pat Robertson “Pleased With Obama” (Video)

By Evan Derkacz

Obama’s early choices seem to have resonated with the religious right thus far.

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Culture, Politics/LawNovember 4, 2008

Gutless Americans: Religion-Baiting Heading into Election Day

By Evan Derkacz

A pair of desperate Republicans attempt to smear their opponents with suspect claims about their religious commitments. Responses were swift and harsh.

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Politics/LawOctober 1, 2008

Video: Sarah Palin’s Apocalypse

By Evan Derkacz

A video report from ANP asking whether, as with many in her denomination, Sarah Palin believes that the End of Days is near.

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