Religion Dispatches

{{Short description|American magazine covering religion}}

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| editor = Evan Derkacz

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| category = Religion, online magazine

| frequency = Daily

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| founder = Gary Laderman, Linell Cady, and Evan Derkacz

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Religion Dispatches is a secular daily non-profit online magazine covering religion, politics, and culture. RD covers topics of religious thought, past and present, that underwrite social structures (with a special focus on inequality and injustice).

It was founded in 2007.[http://collegevilleinstitute.org/writing-workshops/writing-workshops-2014/program-descriptions/a-broader-public-writing-on-religion-for-a-secular-audience-a-week-with-religion-dispatches-editors-and-author-elizabeth-drescher/ "A Broader Public: Writing on Religion for a Secular Audience – A Week with Religion Dispatches’ Editors and Author Elizabeth Drescher"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325113547/http://collegevilleinstitute.org/writing-workshops/writing-workshops-2014/program-descriptions/a-broader-public-writing-on-religion-for-a-secular-audience-a-week-with-religion-dispatches-editors-and-author-elizabeth-drescher/ |date=2014-03-25 }}. Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical & Cultural Research. 2014.Drescher, Elizabeth. [http://elizabethdrescher.com/2013/06/02/as-religion-dispatches-turns/ "As Religion Dispatches Turns"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325130158/http://elizabethdrescher.com/2013/06/02/as-religion-dispatches-turns/ |date=2014-03-25 }}. ElizabethDrescher.com. June 2, 2013. The founders were Gary Laderman, a religion studies scholar from Emory University; Linell Cady, a religion studies scholar from Arizona State University; and Evan Derkacz, a journalist who formerly wrote for AlterNet.{{cite web|url = http://therevealer.org/archives/2804|title = Religion Dispatches|author = Jeff Sharlet|author-link = Jeff Sharlet (writer)|publisher = The Revealer|date = Feb 7, 2008|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131104034545/http://therevealer.org/archives/2804|archive-date = 2013-11-04}} Lisa Webster, an editor and religion scholar, joined Evan as co-editor just before the magazine's launch in February 2008.

RD has won three Religion Newswriters Association (RNA) awards for Excellence in Religion Commentary and Analysis, a Wilbur Award for outstanding work by secular communicators on religion, and a Science for Religion Writers award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).{{Cite web|url=http://www.rna.org/page/2016_winners|title=2016 RNA Contest Winners - Religion News Association & Foundation|website=www.rna.org|access-date=2017-02-15|archive-date=2017-02-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216044729/http://www.rna.org/page/2016_winners|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.rna.org/?page=Contest_Winners_2015|title=2015 RNA Contest Winners - Religion News Association & Foundation|website=www.rna.org|access-date=2017-02-15|archive-date=2017-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128234946/http://www.rna.org/?page=Contest_Winners_2015|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.religioncommunicators.org/assets/documents/wilburawardsprogram2016.pdf|title=2016 Wilbur Award Winners (PDF)|access-date=2017-02-15|archive-date=2017-02-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216061403/http://www.religioncommunicators.org/assets/documents/wilburawardsprogram2016.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.aaas.org/news/writers-broadcasters-receive-science-religion-reporters-award|title=Writers, Broadcasters to Receive 'Science for Religion Reporters' Award|date=2016-01-04|newspaper=AAAS - The World's Largest General Scientific Society|access-date=2017-02-15|language=en|archive-date=2017-02-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216061905/https://www.aaas.org/news/writers-broadcasters-receive-science-religion-reporters-award|url-status=live}} The website was also recognized as an official Nominee for Webby Awards in the Religion & Spirituality category for the 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015 Webby Awards, and as an official Honoree for Best Editorial Writing in 2016 and 2017.[http://winners.webbyawards.com/2011/web/general-website/religion-spirituality Religion & Spirituality: Nominees] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128162412/http://winners.webbyawards.com/2011/web/general-website/religion-spirituality |date=2013-11-28 }}. 2011 Webby Awards. Webby Awards.[http://winners.webbyawards.com/2012/web/general-website/religion-spirituality Religion & Spirituality: Nominees] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325113952/http://winners.webbyawards.com/2012/web/general-website/religion-spirituality |date=2014-03-25 }}. 2012 Webby Awards. Webby Awards.

Religion Dispatches is currently a publication of Political Research Associates. Before that it was located at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism's website from 2013 to 2018 during which time Diane Winston, chairman of Media and Religion at USC, headed the publication.Washington, Arlene. [http://annenberg.usc.edu/News%20and%20Events/News/131002ReligionDispatches.aspx "Religion Dispatches Finds New Home at USC Annenberg"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325113232/http://annenberg.usc.edu/News%20and%20Events/News/131002ReligionDispatches.aspx |date=2014-03-25 }}. USC Annenberg News. October 2, 2013.{{cite web | url=https://religiondispatches.org/moving-day-a-note-from-the-publisher/ | title=Moving Day: A Note from the Publisher | date=2 January 2018 | access-date=19 May 2024 | archive-date=1 July 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701083727/https://religiondispatches.org/moving-day-a-note-from-the-publisher/ | url-status=live }}