I really needed this today, and I imagine you did, too.

This month we get two new phenomenal books on American religious history from @matt-avery-sutton.bsky.social & @tisawenger.bsky.social. My thanks to both of them for joining my youtube channel to discuss their important works & how they integrate Mormonism. youtu.be/OiBcqZ_toJ8?...

How has religion become more polarized in recent years, reflective of our larger cultural silos? I spoke with @ryanburge.bsky.social about his new and important book, and also provided some reflections on what we can glean from the Mormon example. youtu.be/p-7GuwR2F28?...

I think it’s sweet that A’ja Wilson lets her boyfriend work outside the home

If you were to ask me to guess what NBA player would score 83 points in a game this season, I would have probably said 75 players before I got to Bam Adebayo.

Basketball players, notably, move very fast and must maintain balance. Brent Yormark: let’s make the Big12 play on top of an iPad #GoCougs

Complaint while watching BYU’s opening game in the Big12 tournament: Why the hell are they experimenting with a brand new LED floor surface at the most important time of the year?!?!?!

Give SGA his back-to-back MVP. Dude is incredible when he's not hunting fouls.

Congrats to @samirakmehta.bsky.social for her new book! I’m really excited to dig in. @uncpress.bsky.social

These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.

I’ve reached the age where my knee punishes me for an entire weekend because I…*checks notes*…tried to stand up from my car.

This story contains a porn-texting police chief, a money-hungry police union, a nasty mayor’s race, a man in a Waldo costume and the phrase “pig pig pig” — your weekend read from @thewesternedge.bsky.social / me and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-shady-...

Sujey Vega, author of "Mormon Barrio," recently joined @benjaminepark.bsky.social to discuss the growing Latino presence in Mormonism. Discover how Latino converts, often from Catholic roots, are reshaping LDS culture, with strong community ties and responses to social issues.

The natural culmination of America's New Thought tradition is the US president determining other nations' sovereignty solely with his mind.

Congrats to Sujey Vega and @nyupress.bsky.social for their phenomenal new book on Latino Mormonism. I interviewed Dr. Vega about it and the significance of Spanish-speaking LDS congregations. youtu.be/pVDg8Al_K9c?...

But does Noem get to keep all her cosplay costumes?

Has someone already made the joke about Trump firing Noem like a dog? Yes? Everyone has? Okay, I’ll hold off.

I'm honored to have contributed to a roundtable in @modamhist.bsky.social reflecting on Jon Butler's 2004 article, “Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History." Thanks to Darren Dochuk for the invitation to join a great group of scholars.

I’m also curious if Mullen is expected to perpetuate other forms of DHS relations with Corey Lewandowski.

We received such fantastic questions from the audience! Here’s the link to my conversation with @benjaminepark.bsky.social from last night.

Folks: a reminder that tonight I'm hosting a LIVE discussion with @leahsottile.bsky.social. We'll dig into the varieties of Mormon extremism in the recent decades--you know, all the groups that have been the focus of so many HULU, HBO, and Netflix documentaries. It should be fun. (In a morbid way.)

I’ll be doing my first-ever livestream on YouTube tomorrow March 4 at 7 pm MT with @benjaminepark.bsky.social , author of American Zion. We’ll be talking all about extremism in church history, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, the Bundys, etc. Join us! www.youtube.com/live/pzWyl2q...

I can’t believe I live in a state that might conclude both John Cornyn and Dan Crenshaw are “too woke.”

I grew weary with the infighting so pervasive in primaries, but am stoked to support either Crockett or Talarico in the senate election. And also terrified that Texas Republicans have devolved to a point where they’re gonna nominate Paxton.

I need @lollardfish.bsky.social to explain to me how Naz Reid is a real person. Dude is unfair.

Or pronouncing “Nicene.”

A moment I often think about is how when Romney, a Mormon, was eyeing a presidential run, his advisors organized a meeting with evangelical leaders in 2006. Jerry Falwell and Franklin Graham then grilled him on the Trinity & the Nicene Creed. Just imagine Trump being grilled about the Nicene Creed.

This is such an engaging theme -- I have so many ideas! Please consider submitting your proposal: s-usih.org/2026/02/s-us...

A good mail week. I love me some good sweeping narratives with provocative arguments.

I loved the new movie on Ann Lee so much that I invited my friend and Shaker historian, Jennifer Dorsey, to join me in discussing its relationship to history. Feel free to share with others interested in the musical Ann Lee saga. youtu.be/fEutlCiNabw

Are you building a course about the American Revolution, preparing to write an essay on early America, or simply want to dig deeper into revolutionary history? Our new Revolutionary America Resource Guide is for you! A compilation of #EAS articles from 2010 through today: https://bit.ly/4cfsTEk

While there’s plenty of bloviating & lying about the country tonight, let’s celebrate one of the unequivocal goods right now: The new mint chocolate sundae at Costco, one of the few institutions that has retained DEI and opposed Trump’s policies, that is absolutely delicious.

There’s a gofundme to help pay for funeral and headstone costs, keeping her blog alive and functional, and to support the Ardis E. Parshall Award at the Mormon History Association. Consider donating? www.gofundme.com/f/honor-ardi...

It’s officially pub day for this incredible work! Thank you to Oscar de la Torre for making this possible!! And thank you to CUNY DSI for research consults and permission to use your images in my work!! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...

The Mormon history world lost one of our absolute best recently. Ardis Parshall was a dogged researcher--one of the best the LDS tradition ever produced--and a fiercely loyal friend. She influenced so much, and her legacy should prompt us to be even better. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

This Spurs/Pistons game is phenomenal. NBA basketball is great.

Our release date is still seven months away, but my book is now up on the Yale website. Grateful to so many people who helped make this possible. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

I really appreciated America's frenetic overtime hockey win because I recently gave up crack cocaine and needed a fix. USA! USA! USA!

USA’s offense is stalled, momentum is Canada’s, and things look bleak. Which means there’s only one option: The Flying V.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

By Nate Oman nateoman.substack.com/p/against-ch...

THE UNBOXING IS UPON US

Now available for free! Please check out this important special issue. Now more than ever, the Civil War era provides us with important lessons for our harrowing current moment

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

So @benjaminepark.bsky.social is seemingly obsessed with me and has invited me to do his live YouTube show on Wednesday at 2 PM mountain time to talk about my book, We're Thankful for the Moisture. Please tune in and ask him to be nice to me. www.youtube.com/live/eN9rr8j...

For those people interested in such things, here's my latest newsletter broadcast. I send these out every two weeks and they provide links, background, context, and announcements for my various things. This one highlights my upcoming live discussion w/Eli McCann. benjaminpark.kit.com/posts/new-ld...

Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.) TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'm worried I'm gonna jinx things but...that first "game" in the NBA All Start tournament was incredible. The players really wanted it, actually played defense, and genuinely cared. I'm pretty flummoxed right now. And happily so.

Every time I watch the giant slalom skiers I just can’t comprehend how they don’t blow out their knees on every turn.

In the Forum on John Taylor's 1886 revelation in @jmormonhist.bsky.social Vol. 52, No. 1, @benjaminepark.bsky.social contributes "J. Reuben Clark's Fundamentalist Reasons for Rejecting Mormon Fundamentalism." Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...