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Megan Goodwin

Megan Goodwin is an editor for Religion Dispatches, nerd-in-chief at Feral Nerd Consulting, and media & tech consultant for The Crossroads Project. Goodwin is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions (Rutgers 2020). With Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, she cohosts Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast; their first co-authored book, Religion Is Not Done With You, is now available for preorder through Beacon Press. Her next project is tentatively entitled Cults Incorporated: The Business of Bad Religion. Find her on twitter @mpgPhD or bluesky @mpgphd.bsky.social.

Archive, Christian NationalismJanuary 7, 2016

#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni

By Megan Goodwin

Reading between the hashtags as Twitter responds to the Oregon standoff.

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OMFG, Science & Technology, The CubitApril 3, 2015

Don’t Be Tooken In by Kimmy Schmidt‘s Cult

By Megan Goodwin

For all its laudable qualities—its complex characters, its unwavering if imperfect commitment to tackling race,…

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