Sam Kestenbaum
@skestenbaum.bsky.social
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Journalist covering religious life in America www.samkestenbaum.com
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Society for Features Journalism
6 months ago
NARRATIVE STORYTELLING, DIV 3 Honoring a single story told with literary flair. 🥇 1st Place:
@mrdanzak.bsky.social
🥈 2nd Place:
@skestenbaum.bsky.social
🥉 3rd Place: Staff,
@bloombergbusiness.bsky.social
🏅 Honorable Mention:
@wordbobby.bsky.social
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For LA: a one-of-a-kind show this month, with demons, ghouls and much-needed deliverance… A special live reading, from my Harper’s story, with music, actors, puppetry, poetry, short film, and more Nihil & Friends present ART IS LIFE IS ART: RED HOT Variety Show!
www.eventbrite.com/e/nihil-frie...
7 months ago
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The Drift
8 months ago
On messianic soundscapes, by
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The Drift
8 months ago
Hollywood ugliness, a Beckett biopic, cult music, the sly devices of the English sentence, and an increasingly timely stand-up special — five Mentions from
@izzyampil.bsky.social
, Dimitris Passas,
@skestenbaum.bsky.social
, Tanner Stening, and
@cryinmeehan.bsky.social
www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
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Extremely abbreviated reviews
https://www.thedriftmag.com/mentions/
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A mini review from me in the new issue of
@thedrift-mag.bsky.social
… on a series of outré musical soundscapes made by a pyramid-loving, deity-channeling New Agey shaman
www.thedriftmag.com/mention/issu...
11 months ago
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I trekked up a crumbling California hill to sit under a crystal-studded pyramid and bask in the spacey, far-flung soundscapes of a New Age shaman… a (very) short culty music review of mine in the new issue
add a skeleton here at some point
11 months ago
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More storage digging
11 months ago
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Going through the storage
12 months ago
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Headed to San Diego? I’ll be at the American Academy of Religion meeting this weekend, speaking on three panels
12 months ago
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Liam Adams
over 1 year ago
Many have written about Mt. Juliet pastor Greg Locke's emerging mass deliverance ministry. But only
@skestenbaum.bsky.social
immersed himself in the Locke Media/Demon Slayers apparatus and came out with this eloquently written narrative for Harpers:
harpers.org/archive/2024...
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The Demon Slayers, by Sam Kestenbaum
The new age of American exorcisms
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/08/the-demon-slayers-sam-kestenbaum-exorcisms/
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Headed to my alma mater (!) next week to deliver the annual Martin Lecture in Religion ✍️ If you’re in the Wheaton area, info here
over 1 year ago
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almost 2 years ago
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