Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson died yesterday, and there was much rejoicing—particularly among queer people from ...

"Joel's Army"—the militant Protestant movement that fueled both the January 6 insurrection and the recent political ...

It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland ...

This article includes analysis of ChatGPT use in classrooms. With due respect to the author: given its devastating and demonstrably racialized environmental impact, its replication of white supremacy ...

In today’s brave new world of fascism rebranded, white nationalism is trading in brown shirts for boot-cut jeans—and the new master race apparently shops at American Eagle. Because nothing says “the ...

It’s just another normal week in America, where the President is reposting—i.e. re-“Truth”ing—deepfake videos of ...

The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released ...

Over the past six decades, rock ‘n’ roll music has played a central role in American popular culture. Armed with a fun-loving and rebellious ethos, rock has had a liberating effect on generations of ...

If Daniel Dennett is anything, he is a champion of the facts. The prominent philosopher of science is an advocate for hard-nosed empiricism, and as a leading New Atheist he calls for naturalistic ...

Security sells. That’s why, says retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong, despite his best-selling controversial books and popular speeches, his position on Jesus and the Christian church will ...

What inspired you to write If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right? I really wanted to figure something out: what the surprising, strange, unexpected return ...