EXTRA: I'm at The Dispatch!

Here's my inaugural essay for the new feature, Dispatch Faith

Readers, you may be familiar with The Dispatch, the online magazine founded in 2019 by, among others, Jonah Goldberg.

This Sunday The Dispatch launched a new weekly newsletter centered on issues of faith, called Dispatch Faith. Like the site itself and its other newsletters, you can subscribe to it via email. (In fact, subscribing to Dispatch Faith would be a tangible way to support me, as a new addition there, and the publication in general. Here’s the link to do so: https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-faith/ .)

You can also read my entire essay, “Christian Nationalism’s Failure of Imagination,” here: https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/dispatch-faith/karen-swallow-prior-christian-nationalisms-failure-of-imagination/

Here’s a taste:

Fortunately, some of the most brilliant minds in history have already imagined more realistically what the tenets of Christian nationalism (even when called by other names) might look like. A brief glance at even a few of these great works shows how the questions raised by Christian nationalism, questions around national identity, race, and religious liberty, can be addressed with foresight, originality, and creative genius—as opposed to the pastiches of the past that mere nostalgia and the plagiarism of AI offer.

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Don’t forget that tomorrow we return to more poetry by John Donne. Talk about imagination!