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  • Racial Justice
    • Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
    • Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of <em>Roe v. Wade</em>
      Embryo Men — Decades of Conspiracy, Christian Nationalism, and Fear Led Us to The End of Roe v. Wade
    • Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
      Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
  • Politics/Law
    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
    • As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
      As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
  • The End of Roe
    • Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity
      Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity
    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
      As Problems for Pregnant People Increase, Catholic Bishops Claim They’re Heroes For Ending Abortion Rights
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
      Progressive Christians: Don’t Look to the Bible For Abortion Rights Arguments — Women’s Autonomy is Not a Biblical Value
    • Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
      Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law
    • Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
    • Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
    • 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

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.

(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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Guest Bloggers, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD BlogJanuary 16, 2015

Republican Jewish Coalition Calls Obama Out for “Donors” Mention

By Evan Derkacz

Money for votes? Heaven forfend.

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(A)theologies, OMFG, RD Blog, The EditorsDecember 9, 2014

Rev Raphael Warnock: If Churches Aren’t in Trouble With Power, They’re Probably in Bed With It

By Evan Derkacz

In a powerful NPR segment (listen below) on whether the Black Church still matters, Michel Martin…

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(A)theologies, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, The EditorsDecember 5, 2014

Why the Evangelical Dissonance Over Obama Immigration Action?

By Evan Derkacz

According to a new PRRI poll, 60% of white evangelicals “support the goals of Obama’s…

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Culture, OMFG, RD Blog, The EditorsNovember 28, 2014

Daily News Corrects JR Smith’s “Fool[ish]” Slavery/Black Friday Post… Incorrectly

By Evan Derkacz

Chalk up the lack of religion in this post to the flurry of planning, cooking…

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Did Darren Wilson Superhumanize Michael Brown?
OMFG, RD Blog, The EditorsNovember 25, 2014

Did Darren Wilson Superhumanize Michael Brown?

By Evan Derkacz

Like so many others, I was struck by Darren Wilson’s use of the word “demon” to describe Michael…

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(A)theologies, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, RD Blog, Sexuality/Gender, The EditorsNovember 6, 2014

Gay Marriage isn’t About Christianity So Much as Christian Nationalism

By Evan Derkacz

Eerie coincidence or scholar-geist?

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OMFG, RD Blog, The EditorsNovember 5, 2014

Louisville Diocese Throws Teacher Under the Bus Over Ebola Hysteria

By Evan Derkacz

Or: How to make Catholicism even less appealing.

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Culture, OMFG, RD Blog, The EditorsOctober 23, 2014

ISIS, Walking Dead and Our Zombie Moral Compass

By Evan Derkacz

Honestly, after a good bit of Googling I’m surprised to find just a single mention…

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(A)theologies, OMFG, RD Blog, The EditorsSeptember 10, 2014

Thanks, Tony Perkins, for Defending those Violent Jewish-y Parts of the Bible

By Evan Derkacz

I try to ignore emails from the Family Research Council. They arrive with cringe-worthy puns…

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