From Civil Rights Liberals to New Age Conspiracy Theorists — What Betty and Barney Hill’s Alien Abduction Story Reveals About America
In 1961, driving back from a short vacation, Betty and Barney Hill encountered a bright…
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Russell Moore Claims There’s a Crisis in Evangelical America — But White Evangelicalism is Exactly Where it Wants to Be
Russell Moore used to be one of the top officials of the most powerful religious…
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From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism
Ana Marie Cox recently noted in The New Republic that conservative legislators in Florida and…
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What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about…
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy: How Amazon, Google & Neuroscience Threaten American Buddhism
Contemporary American Buddhism has a problem, although, thankfully, unlike Christianity it has little to do…
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La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More
For most of its existence, religious Satanism has been regarded as either unfit for polite…
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George Weigel’s Revisionist History Casts Vatican II as a Christian Nationalist Handbook
The upcoming 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, better known as Vatican II, will…
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Evangelicalism Thrived Because it Enabled White Christians to Avoid Civil Rights Movements According to New Book
In the course of his remarks to the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand Summit”…
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This Supreme Court is an Effect Not a Cause: The Hidden Century-Long Funding of the American Right
In a bombshell story last month, the New York Times revealed that two years ago…
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Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
Regular readers of Religion Dispatches will likely be familiar with my fairly frequent forays into…
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