Australia was the first country to adopt decisive, effective gun control — in 1996, after a horrific mass shooting — and they’ve done it again. The U.S., meanwhile, has more mass shootings than days of the year. Why? Because unlike Australia, we just don’t give a f*ck. apnews.com/article/aust...

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🏈 Read this fun piece that I (a diehard #Patriots fan) and my Axios colleague Russell Contreras (a long-suffering #Texans fan) wrote together about our yearslong rivalry. 🏈 Bite me, Russ! GO PATS! www.axios.com/2026/01/15/t...

It was a privilege to talk about my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, and the strange nexus of faith and firearms with Josh Patterson on his amazing (Re)Thinking Faith podcast. Give it a listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6pKU... #guns #gunviolence #booksky #evangelicals

My latest from The Fly Guy 🎣 ... the inevitable horror show of hooking oneself instead of the fish. billkole.substack.com/p/hooked #booksky #flyfishing #fishing #humor

If you're a nonfiction author considering a book-tour stop in PVD and you'd like a conversation partner, feel free to reach out. If timing/scheduling allows, I'd be happy to help. Next up: a chat with @billkole.bsky.social about "In Guns We Trust" at @symposiumbooks.bsky.social in March.

Of all the solid reviews IN GUNS WE TRUST has gotten, this one is perhaps the most gratifying. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was an editor at @christiancentury.bsky.social, and it was the first to publish his "Letters from a Birmingham Jail." #booksky www.christiancentury.org/books/lethal...

Do you want to live to 100 and beyond? Author @billkole.bsky.social says: you may whether you like it or not. On this week's podcast: the pros and cons of the coming centenarian boom, aka "Super #Aging." LISTEN TO THE #PODCAST HERE: open.spotify.com/episode/0hvw... @diversionbooks.bsky.social

This may be the most fun I've ever had on a podcast. The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare had me on to talk about my first book, THE BIG 100, and how society will change as many more of us live into triple digits. open.spotify.com/episode/0hvw...?

Fear has become the water we’re swimming in. On @shiftingculture.bsky.social, I talk with journalist @billkole.bsky.social about guns in churches, fear-based faith, and how the way of Jesus, rooted in nonviolence, got replaced by power and protection. Listen: pod.link/1566243892

Great to see IN GUNS WE TRUST get traction in academia! (It’s a natural text for any university-level ethics or religion courses …) More on this important new @broadleafbooks.bsky.social title here: www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc... #guns #gunculture #booksky

I just finished #reading this #book: #InGunsWeTrust by #WilliamJKole. This was a wonderful book. I've read a few books on this subject & this is one of the best ones. It can be depressing but it also offers some hope. Everybody should read this @billkole.bsky.social book #Booksky #ReadingIsDelicious

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“Is anyone here carrying a gun?” In @bmj.com I reflect on America’s relationship with guns, and why the leading cause of death for ages 1–17 is missing from MAHA’s child health plan. Whose freedom is being protected? www.bmj.com/content/391/... Thanks to @billkole.bsky.social @nelbamg.bsky.social

Hope they're bitin' up there, brother. billkole.substack.com/p/cast-adrift

My heart is full after this evening's spirited discussion about America's gun scourge at Boston's Grace Community Church. To the woman traumatized by gun violence who told me she had to retreat to the back of the room and lie down: I see you. I hear you. We're fighting this fight for you. 💙

Greater Boston peeps: Join us this coming Sunday! It’s gonna be 🔥

My latest book, spotted in the wild at @barnesandnoble.com in Santa Fe by the great journalist (and longtime pal) Ian Stewart ☺️ #guns #gunviolence #booksky @broadleafbooks.bsky.social

Not my usual stomping grounds! But I’ll be happy to rep my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, at the joint annual conference of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature in Boston later this month. If you’ll be there, hit me up!

www.writersdigest.com/william-j-ko... #guns #gunculture #evangelicals #booksky

Reviews of IN GUNS WE TRUST are trickling in on Amazon, and I’m so grateful. We need more! If you’ve read or are reading, please take a moment to post a brief review. It’ll make this important book more visible. #booksky

Friends, a plea for help! If you've read or are reading IN GUNS WE TRUST, please please please drop a brief review on the Amazon page for the book. It will help the algorithm recommend this important book to other readers. Thanks so much! #booksky #guns #gunculture www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...

Kipruto gets it by 2 tenths of a second. 😳

Even though some fly fishers have the social proclivities of the Unabomber, there are times when it makes sense for tiers of feathers to flock together. Enter the rod club. (My latest from The Fly Guy 🎣. Click to subscribe -- it's free!) open.substack.com/pub/billkole... #flyfishing #flytying

Friends, a plea for help! If you've read or are reading IN GUNS WE TRUST, please please please drop a brief review on the Amazon page for the book. It will help the algorithm recommend this important book to other readers. Thanks so much! #booksky #guns #gunculture www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...

www.billkolebooks.com/post/in-guns... #booksky #guns #gunculture

IN GUNS WE TRUST is out now, wherever you buy your books! Get your copy now of what @momsdemand.bsky.social founder @shannonrwatts.bsky.social calls "an essential read." #booksky #guns #gunculture

I had an amazing conversation with NYT bestselling author Frank Schaeffer about IN GUNS WE TRUST in this YouTube Live chat. Give it a watch/listen! #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x2...

My appearance this morning on @wbztv.bsky.social’s Keller @ Large to talk about IN GUNS WE TRUST. www.cbsnews.com/boston/video...

Fellow Massholes: I'll be on CBS Boston's Keller @ Large at 8:30am Sunday to talk about my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST. Tune in! #booksky

Coming up on One on One, my new half-hour interview show on @oceanstatemedia.bsky.social (FKA Rhode Island PBS) 7:30 pm Fri/10:30 am Sunday: @billkole.bsky.social on the close ties between evangelicals, guns + politics Next Fri/Sun Ken Burns on The American Revolution, U.S. division + baseball

I was on the @ffrf’s Freethought Radio podcast to talk about IN GUNS WE TRUST. Give it a listen here: ffrf.org/news/freetho...

📢 A plea to everyone to please write and post a short review of IN GUNS WE TRUST on Amazon! It will help the algorithm get this important book in front of more people! www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...

@rns caught up with me to talk about faith, firearms, and my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST. religionnews.com/2025/10/16/i...

www.oceanstatemedia.org/politics/rho... why are white evangelicals intertwined with guns? @billkole.bsky.social talked with me about his new book

@writersdigest.bsky.social caught up with me about IN GUNS WE TRUST — out today wherever you buy your books …! #booksky www.writersdigest.com/william-j-ko...

It’s my book birthday! 🎂 Please buy, read and review on Amazon & Goodreads — and heartfelt thanks for your support! #booksky

A book mention in this morning’s @axios.com AM newsletter. Pub day is tomorrow! #booksky www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Much more from Father Dear and others in my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms — releasing Tuesday via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social

📢 I'm donating a portion of my author proceeds from sales of IN GUNS WE TRUST to @momsdemand.bsky.social / @everytown.bsky.social. When you purchase a copy, you'll be supporting their essential work. Let's team up to break the cycle of endless gun violence in America! shorturl.at/SNjOz

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

If only thwarting gun violence were as easy as Lucy makes it look. It's not. But it's also not impossible. IN GUNS WE TRUST, my new book, charts a way out of our uniquely American gun scourge. Get your copy today wherever you buy your books & let's end the madness. www.youtube.com/shorts/5exmL...

Rhode Island folks: my friend and colleague @billkole.bsky.social is having a launch day event for his excellent book, "In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms" next Tuesday, 10/14 at Riffraff, in Providence. I'll be there. Will you?

I’m so grateful for those who read the excerpts of IN GUNS WE TRUST published in @bostonglobe.com last month — and then wrote in to express their solidarity. If enough of us care, we can break the endless cycle of gun violence. I really do believe that. 🤲🏻

Looks like it's Podcast Thursday! Here's my conversation this morning with the great @brianallain.bsky.social on his acclaimed "How to Heal Our Divides" podcast about guns, evangelicals, and ... fly fishing? One of these things is not like the others. WATCH: youtu.be/vVqwrgbi70w

I had a terrific conversation with @pcusa.bsky.social on their A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast. We talked about my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms, and how to engage with gun owners. www.amatteroffaithpodcast.com #booksky

Jane Goodall on death as the "next adventure." Here's the clip from my 2021 interview with her for my book, THE BIG 100, an exploration of longevity. (Jane was the perfect example of a super-ager; someone who makes the most of their bonus years.)