So Utah passed a bill designed to “address” ritual abuse this week. That is a thing that happened in the year of someone’s LORD 2025. Isn’t ritual abuse bad, you might be wondering? Don’t we want to…
Megan Goodwin
Megan Goodwin is senior 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 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.
