Okay, Charlie Kirk memorial event has wrapped, with Trump and Erika Kirk embracing before walking off together. One of the most prominent — in terms of the political power wielded by participants — intermingle-ings of religion and politics I've ever witnessed. Anyway, hire more religion reporters.

Minutes before Trump bragged that he "HATES" his opponents, Charlie Kirk's grieving widow said she forgives her husband's killer and called for love for his opponents. Unfathomably grotesque for Trump to deliberately and explicitly contradict her at her own husband's memorial service.

“A River Runs Through It” will forever be my fave Robert Redford picture. RIP 💔

Preorders of IN GUNS WE TRUST, officially out on Oct. 14 via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social, apparently are shipping ... so watch your mailboxes! Below is from new friend @pamelaohara.com ohara.com, who got hers today. Hi, Pam, and hi, pup! 📕🐶

@billkole.bsky.social reacted to the shooting of Charlie Kirk, saying, “Gun violence of any kind and political violence of any kind has no place in the US. Full stop.” He said he disagreed with most of what Kirk had to say. “But he had every right to say it." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/11/m...

🎙️‘Locked and loaded Christianity’: A R.I. author looks at white Evangelicals, politics, and guns. “There’s really a kind of a culture of fear that motivates all of this,” journalist and former evangelical @billkole.bsky.social says on the #RIReport podcast www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/11/m...

The @bostonglobe.com's Rhode Island Report podcast had me on to talk about my new book and our uniquely American gun violence crisis. Give it a listen here or on Spotify: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

You can listen to my interview with Bill Kole on just how prevalent guns are and how deeply intertwined it is in our DNA with a group of evangelicals viewing access to weapons as a “holy” act in service of a god that normally preaches peace. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

There are numerous lingering questions around the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. What we *can* say is this: America is awash in guns. We’re a nation of 330 million people. Conservatively, we have 400 million firearms. We lead the world in guns per capita.

Period.

What’s your excuse again (for pretty much anything)? share.google/jS26ICeMHQnF...

Thank you, Father Santora, for the IN GUNS WE TRUST shoutout in your great piece for the @usatoday.com Network. 🙏🏼 www.northjersey.com/story/opinio...

New Englanders (& others): Spend a few minutes with my essay on guns, in print in today’s issue of @bostonglobe.com Much, much more in my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, out Oct. 14 wherever books are sold (via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social

📕 MOMENT OF TRUTH. 📕 (In more ways than one!) IN GUNS WE TRUST is being released on Oct. 14 via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social. You can preorder it today. Thank you for joining me on this journey! #booksky

PERSPECTIVE | MAGAZINE by R.I. resident @billkole.bsky.social -- Guns made me leave the evangelical church. When will the church leave guns? A bewildering marriage of faith and firearms is fueling our uniquely American gun scourge. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

Bill's book is excellent. I blurbed it!

This essay I wrote for @bostonglobe.com (in print next Sunday, Sept. 7) is adapted from my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, out Oct. 14 via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social. Not gonna lie: This whole guns-in-the-church thing has been a gut punch. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

John Gierach & Flip Pallot as well. A lot of leaders in the field. Much respect.

Another fly fishing OG has left us. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/s...

How long, Lord? How many more of these must we endure?

The last chapter of my forthcoming new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, is titled No Guns in Heaven … because there won’t be. #booksky

📕 Another great review of IN GUNS WE TRUST ... this one via @ala-booklist.bsky.social !📘 Booklist will run the full review in its Sept. issue. IN GUNS WE TRUST publishes on Oct. 14, but you can pre-order a copy now wherever you buy your books. #booksky

The first review is in for IN GUNS WE TRUST, via the prestigious @publisherswkly.bsky.social, and it's a good one! I'm so grateful. 🙌🏼 Pre-order your copy today! www.publishersweekly.com/9798889835639

While the Adriatic sounds captivating, I find my greatest adventures in the pages of a book. Each turn of a page is a journey, inviting me to explore worlds I never knew existed. The magic of reading always lifts me up. ✨

This is me flogging the Adriatic, when in truth, the Adriatic flogged me. To paraphrase Dos Equis’ The Most Interesting Man in the World: I don’t usually get royally skunked, but when I do … 😏 #flyfishing #saltwaterflyfishing #authorlife #booksky

@publisherswkly.bsky.social caught up with me about the long, strange journey that led to IN GUNS WE TRUST. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Happy Friday #KyberSquadron! We got the opportunity to chat with @billkole.bsky.social for his upcoming book “In Guns We Trust” and got to talk about #StarWars #Politics #GunViolence and how Bill is living out a “Reverse Anakin” life! Listen, Rate, and share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Just to give you some insight into how bizarre white evangelical Christianity can be: An evangelical acquaintance DMed me insisting I repent for the decades I spent spreading lies through my work with The Associated Press. If I end up in hell, trust me, it won’t be because of AP.

🎣 Anglers & bibliophiles! 📘 As I head to Philly for the American Library Association conference, thought I’d point out this little Easter egg about my *next* project: Book No. 3! I hope to be able to share more in the coming weeks! #booksky #books #flyfishing

Gun homicides are down, but gun suicides hit an all-time high for the third straight year, the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social says in a new report. My new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, takes a deep dive into all of that and more. shorturl.at/x1Osp

I'm sorry, but as one of the many, many authors whose debut work of nonfiction, THE BIG 100, was stolen (with no compensation to me) to train AI, this ruling is a steaming pile of 💩. As is AI itself. 💩 #booksky www.bbc.com/news/article...

My hometown newspaper caught up with me about my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST (out Oct. 14 via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social). www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_n... (🔒paywall)

Can’t wait for the American Library Association conference in Philly this weekend! #booksky

Trump proclaiming he’ll end the war he just started reminds me of this …

Just *eight days* after a school shooting, Austria is taking decisive action to prevent a repeat. Australia, New Zealand, the UK and others also took quick action. Americans say it’s impossible here. Bullshit. We just don’t value our kids as much as these nations value theirs.

The suspected #Minnesota political assassin is a white evangelical gun owner. My new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, takes a deep dive into the nexus of faith and firearms. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

Bookworms & Philly friends! If you'll be at the American Library Association annual conference on June 29, you'll find me here with these fellow @broadleafbooks.bsky.social authors. Please say hi! 👋🏼 (Other speakers include Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, George Takei, and Geena Davis ... 🤩)

Just as his SpaceX did the other day, Elon appears to have suffered “a rapid unscheduled disassembly.”

I knew I’d seen Trump’s garish red & purple getup before …

Advance review copies of IN GUNS WE TRUST have arrived! You’re def going to want to read this. Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/in-g...

It was great fun being on Lauren Bernick's "Age Like a Badass Mother" podcast. (Best podcast title ever!) Give it a watch or a listen -- and then pick up a copy of THE BIG 100! youtu.be/qytlcvQ3_-k?...

"You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language." —Joseph Brodsky

A 115-year-old British woman is now the world's oldest person. Read my debut book, THE BIG 100, for more on these exceptional human beings! www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2049...

Today is the 100th day of the year, and I got to spend part of it talking about THE BIG 100 with the lovely residents of The Residence at Great Woods in Norton, Mass. — including these three beautiful centenarians 😍

As markets fall and support for Trump’s approach crumbles, China is showing no sign of buckling. But with its own weak economy, it also has a lot to lose. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Trump's tariffs are the economic equivalent of burning down your house to kill a spider. But it sounds like he’s having a great weekend of golf!

I did a Q&A with comms and marketing giant VML about my first book, THE BIG 100; our super-aging future; and what I think 2050 might be like. (Spoiler alert: upsides and downsides; bleakness and brightness ...) www.vml.com/insight/will...

I spent the day at an amazing conference — How to End Christian Nationalism — headlined by fellow Broadleaf Books author @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social, who wrote a compelling book with the same title. The evangelical gun culture is inextricably intertwined with Christian nationalism.

I had a feeling that my book, THE BIG 100, was among those pilfered by LibGen, the pirated-books database that Meta used to train AI. And it was. 🤬

It was great fun being on Patricia Raskin's show today to talk about my book, THE BIG 100, and our collective super-aging future. sites.libsyn.com/556552/bill-...