Like a comet closing in on Planet Earth, the US presidential election is hurtling toward its destination. With around two ...

On October 12th one of the most remarkable political statements of any religious leader in this or any election season was ...

Pundits, academics, and church leaders alike decry our current age as a time of partisan rancor and disunity. People, we are ...

Cait West’s insights could not be more urgent. At a time when conservative lawmakers and… ...

Here at Religion Dispatches, we have an informal policy that “religion is as religion does.”… ...

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In a recent front-page article, New York Times religion reporter Ruth Graham explores a historic gendered shift in church attendance. As the data show: survey after survey reveals a marked increase in ...

Religion Dispatches is your independent, non-profit, award-winning source for the best writing on critical and timely issues at the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.

Notably, this isn’t the first time that Trump has attacked the first Black republic in the Western hemisphere. In 2017, Edwidge Danticat explained in the New Yorker that he “reopened an old wound” by ...