Jared Stacy
@jaredstacy.bsky.social
PhD, Uni of Aberdeen // Theology + Ethics // Digital Infostructure // Democracy + Extremism // American evangelicalism • Chaplain
Upcoming Book📕”Reality In Ruins” w/ HarperOne
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Upcoming Book📕”Reality In Ruins” w/ HarperOne
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If conspiracy theory is a storytelling act, then Trump’s “Big Lie” is not consigned to the past. It remains a window into an ongoing story not just about America, but also about good and evil and—for evangelicals—about God.
The Myths of January 6
Plus, Livestream Tonight
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January 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
If conspiracy theory is a storytelling act, then Trump’s “Big Lie” is not consigned to the past. It remains a window into an ongoing story not just about America, but also about good and evil and—for evangelicals—about God.
The first major review of my book “Reality in Ruins” dropped this week
December 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The first major review of my book “Reality in Ruins” dropped this week
Really grateful for this endorsement of my book Reality In Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis, from @iamfujimura.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Really grateful for this endorsement of my book Reality In Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis, from @iamfujimura.bsky.social
For friends at #AARSBL I’ll be delivering a paper on late fascism and evangelical rhetorics of freedom at the Evangelical Studies Unit this morning in Boston—via video. Hope to make it in person next year!
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
For friends at #AARSBL I’ll be delivering a paper on late fascism and evangelical rhetorics of freedom at the Evangelical Studies Unit this morning in Boston—via video. Hope to make it in person next year!
Disreality is not pathological. It is more existential. Less a clinical condition marked by a departure from facts, more an eruption of epistemological anxiety in which new facts are created or realities constructed towards the production of an unstable certainty
Toward Reality in a Time of MAGA “Disreality”
Doing Theology Against Conspiracy Theories
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Disreality is not pathological. It is more existential. Less a clinical condition marked by a departure from facts, more an eruption of epistemological anxiety in which new facts are created or realities constructed towards the production of an unstable certainty
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"The strange #history."
Today's forthcoming-book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @jaredstacy.bsky.social & @harperonebooks.bsky.social!
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October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"The strange #history."
Today's forthcoming-book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @jaredstacy.bsky.social & @harperonebooks.bsky.social!
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Today's forthcoming-book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @jaredstacy.bsky.social & @harperonebooks.bsky.social!
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The (obvious) analysis: these directives give more plausibility to scenarios where free US elections are suspended or subverted in the name of "national security"
In 3 years, will an American public too familiar with the military in our streets be able to recognize that scenario for what it is?
In 3 years, will an American public too familiar with the military in our streets be able to recognize that scenario for what it is?
Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The (obvious) analysis: these directives give more plausibility to scenarios where free US elections are suspended or subverted in the name of "national security"
In 3 years, will an American public too familiar with the military in our streets be able to recognize that scenario for what it is?
In 3 years, will an American public too familiar with the military in our streets be able to recognize that scenario for what it is?
Deliver us from our Christianity
God Does Not Need Saving
Resisting MAGA Christianity with Karl Barth
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October 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Deliver us from our Christianity
The point of disinformation in an authoritarian moment isn't to convince people of alternative facts as much as it is to sow mistrust in every source of information or truth outside of "the leader"
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The point of disinformation in an authoritarian moment isn't to convince people of alternative facts as much as it is to sow mistrust in every source of information or truth outside of "the leader"
Reposted by Jared Stacy
Next week! It’s not too late to register. Manitobans: note the free lunch on the Oct 23 option 👀
Manitobans: join me Oct 22 in Winnipeg or Oct 23 in Otterburne for my public lecture “Lives Worth Living: What Disability Can Teach Us About Life & Death.” Zoom is available for the Oct 23 lecture, and the lecture will be uploaded after.
Register at the link below: my.prov.ca/forms/semina...
Register at the link below: my.prov.ca/forms/semina...
my.prov.ca: Seminary Symposium Registration
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October 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Next week! It’s not too late to register. Manitobans: note the free lunch on the Oct 23 option 👀
“It is disturbing…that a ‘faith movement’ can acquire character and weight simply by the use of violence in the manner of the political mass-meeting and the political demonstration for propaganda purposes”
Karl Barth, 1933
Karl Barth, 1933
October 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“It is disturbing…that a ‘faith movement’ can acquire character and weight simply by the use of violence in the manner of the political mass-meeting and the political demonstration for propaganda purposes”
Karl Barth, 1933
Karl Barth, 1933
3) Slow down and de-escalate (hyper-reactivity is the highway for disinformation, lies travel faster than truth. Learn to ask questions that serve as “brakes”)
October 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
3) Slow down and de-escalate (hyper-reactivity is the highway for disinformation, lies travel faster than truth. Learn to ask questions that serve as “brakes”)
Practices to counter disreality:
1) Get local, physical, and material (resist “algorithmic reality” by scaling down into your own community)
2) Cultivate good suspicion (relentlessly question content before sharing—consider images and text, A.I. renders, etc)
1) Get local, physical, and material (resist “algorithmic reality” by scaling down into your own community)
2) Cultivate good suspicion (relentlessly question content before sharing—consider images and text, A.I. renders, etc)
October 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Practices to counter disreality:
1) Get local, physical, and material (resist “algorithmic reality” by scaling down into your own community)
2) Cultivate good suspicion (relentlessly question content before sharing—consider images and text, A.I. renders, etc)
1) Get local, physical, and material (resist “algorithmic reality” by scaling down into your own community)
2) Cultivate good suspicion (relentlessly question content before sharing—consider images and text, A.I. renders, etc)
I keep saying it: conspiracy theory is mainstream. We aren’t dealing with one narrative here or there, we’re living through a default on “reality” — with terrible consequences.
Here is some advice:
Here is some advice:
October 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I keep saying it: conspiracy theory is mainstream. We aren’t dealing with one narrative here or there, we’re living through a default on “reality” — with terrible consequences.
Here is some advice:
Here is some advice:
Fascist theater: staged provocation in the political that codes/targets undesirables. It provides content for propaganda to normalize the previously unthinkable.
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Fascist theater: staged provocation in the political that codes/targets undesirables. It provides content for propaganda to normalize the previously unthinkable.
I mostly avoid reposting propaganda. But if I do, it’s to name it as antichrist. This is the power to crucify and it belongs to hell. Churches that bless it are Babylonian shrines. Do not confuse the power to crucify with the power of the Crucified One, who is peace.
October 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I mostly avoid reposting propaganda. But if I do, it’s to name it as antichrist. This is the power to crucify and it belongs to hell. Churches that bless it are Babylonian shrines. Do not confuse the power to crucify with the power of the Crucified One, who is peace.
Our elected leaders in the US executive branch are not departing from reality as much as they are creating one— a totality where their word is absolute and dissent is subversion.
September 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our elected leaders in the US executive branch are not departing from reality as much as they are creating one— a totality where their word is absolute and dissent is subversion.
Proofs are here. Feeling the weight of this book; what it stands for—naming the authoritarian nexus of falsehood & violence at work in white evangelicalism— and what it hopes in—truth for a common world.
September 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Proofs are here. Feeling the weight of this book; what it stands for—naming the authoritarian nexus of falsehood & violence at work in white evangelicalism— and what it hopes in—truth for a common world.
“The hardest work is contending against the disorienting and malformed Christianities which bring themselves to bear against the vulnerable, often in the name of freedom and faith. This is the necessary work, the one the demands the church be exactly what it is.”
September 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“The hardest work is contending against the disorienting and malformed Christianities which bring themselves to bear against the vulnerable, often in the name of freedom and faith. This is the necessary work, the one the demands the church be exactly what it is.”
On the Kirk memorial from the intersection of brutality and disreality…
Everyone Marveled And Followed The Beast
Devoured By America First
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
On the Kirk memorial from the intersection of brutality and disreality…
So glad to hear. Thank you.
September 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
So glad to hear. Thank you.
The last week has only pressed me deeper into the message that led to this book—we are dealing not just with a war of facts, but the apocalypse (unveiling) of primal stories, of myths and their corruption. Here’s how we got here, and a way forward…
Preorder + share here:
Preorder + share here:
Reality in Ruins
For anyone who has ever said, “It feels like we’re living in different realities,” an unforgettable read and definitive explainer of the strange history of ...
www.harpercollins.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The last week has only pressed me deeper into the message that led to this book—we are dealing not just with a war of facts, but the apocalypse (unveiling) of primal stories, of myths and their corruption. Here’s how we got here, and a way forward…
Preorder + share here:
Preorder + share here:
A lot of talk about “authoritarianism” — and I’m here for it. But we need specificity: the contagion of authoritarian movements today spreads by a vision of capitalism without democracy.
September 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A lot of talk about “authoritarianism” — and I’m here for it. But we need specificity: the contagion of authoritarian movements today spreads by a vision of capitalism without democracy.