Higher ed has some PR work to do. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Why did my presentation AI think Oprah was a Civil War reporter?

Published an essay today in Religious Studies Review: "Exploring Faith’s Power to Corrupt or Uplift: The 2024Journalism Awards of the American Academy of Religion"

I'm playing with an AI slidemaker to improve my class visuals and I just had to tell it to make Jesus brown ... and it then gave me a cartoon bobblehead version ... that was still white. Try 3 got there.

5/15The bulk of the evening was Steele sharing her story of suing ESPN for alleged viewpoint discrimination, which ended her sport reporting career.

2/15 Having listened to hours of Kirk's rhetoric, I was most interested in how the 500+ Christians in the audience reacted. The setup was striking: 15 minutes of worship music, then a prayer of offering, before a hard pivot into full-on political rally.

1/15 As part of my ongoing research on Christian nationalism, I finally got to attend a Freedom Night with Charlie Kirk in person Wednesday night at Dream City Church in Phoenix. Here's what I witnessed... #ChristianNationalism #PoliticsAndReligion

I listened to the audiobooks of Jemar Tisby's "Spirit of Justice" about how Black Christians have stood up for their dignity & rights and then J. Russell Hawkins "The Bible Told Them So" looking at how white Southern Evangelicals preserved white supremacy & avoided desegregating schools & churches.

I agreed to update Christian America and the Kingdom of God after a church member promoted Christian nationalism in our congregation, by teaching Wallbuilder's David Barton and Patriot Academy's Rick Green's Constitution Alive material.

Trump declares himself King and Savior while selling the nation and its allies to Russia. While we should all speak truth against Trump's lies, I am most grateful for the GOP voices calling out Trump's Putin propaganda in hopes they can break through

NYT chart on all the ways federal agencies were investigating Musk's companies for violating federal rules. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

The update of Christian America and the Kingdom of God is officially here! Thank you @illinoispress.bsky.social

As a historian this chart is no surprise. But it breaks my heart that extreme nativism, i.e. belief that undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" is strongest from evangelical Christians. The world should know us by our love, not for spouting eugenics. @prripoll.bsky.social

My book update of "Christian America and the Kingdom of God: White Christian Nationalism from the Puritans through Jan. 6, 2021" is on sale again @IllinoisPress for 50% off using AHA25 in honor of the American Historical Association meeting, February release www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

So fun to see my #ChristianNationalism book advertised at @illinoispress at the American Academy of Religion National Conference! It’s in pre-orders now. You can order for 50% off this weekend using promo code AARSBL24
Go here to preorder: www.press.uillinois.edu/.../aar-sbl-...