F*ck yeah it is. ✊🏼

My latest for @bostonglobe.com: kayaking by moonlight (with bioluminescence as a bonus thrill) ... Part of a Globe Magazine package of New England travel adventures you've probably never done but def should! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/30/m...

I’m thrilled that IN GUNS WE TRUST was named Book of the Year by the Religion News Association at its annual awards in Atlanta this evening …! Here I am with Valerie Weaver-Zercher, my wonderful editor at @broadleafbooks.bsky.social. 🤩 #guns #gunviolence #booksky

I used to run marathons. Now I watch them — and what I see truly inspires me. My latest for @axios.com: www.axios.com/2026/04/24/a...

Keri Ladner’s new book is out, and I 10/10 recommend. It sheds new light on the alarming and rapidly growing “Dominionist” movement in American evangelical Christianity. God help us. #booksky www.amazon.com/American-Dom...

This is tonight! Please join us! #guns #gunviolence #badreligion #booksky

Old journalists never die … We just know what Qs to ask. 😉 #ArtemisII

Grateful to see my first book, THE BIG 100, mentioned in this informative PARADE Magazine article by the whip-smart Jessica Sager. ☺️ parade.com/health/what-... #aging #longevity #booksky

OK then. 🐾 🌖 (via @nytimes.com)

I know some peeps have reservations about buying books on Amazon, but they’re running an incredible flash sale on my latest book. It’s a *great* time to get a copy of IN GUNS WE TRUST! www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...

If you're in southern New England on April 13, please join us! We're going to go deep ... not just into the problem but into the solutions. #guns #gunviolence #guncontrol #booksky

This is the most vile and toxic brand of Christian nationalism, and I examine it in depth in the pages of IN GUNS WE TRUST. Hegseth needs to take it down a couple hundred notches.

IN GUNS WE TRUST was just featured on Australia's @abcnewsbot.bsky.social. You can listen here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #guns #evangelicals #booksky

"Staircase at Golden Hour," an image I captured while on vacation in Bale, Croatia, last summer, has been accepted into the 16th annual Fine Art of Photography exhibition, a juried show at Plymouth Center for the Arts in Plymouth, Mass. ☺️

Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the US military can drop bombs on scores of children and face no serious media scrutiny for it. His vile claim that he can't wait for David Ellison to run CNN shows he pines for oligarchic control of media. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2077...

hey look it’s @phileil.bsky.social and @billkole.bsky.social at @symposiumbooks.bsky.social. buy Bill’s book!

One week from today -- Saturday, March 7 -- I'll be chatting with @billkole.bsky.social at @symposiumbooks.bsky.social about his excellent, timely book, "In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms." The event is at 4 p.m. Join us!

If you’re in PVD next Monday, please join us!

Meanwhile on TikTok:

www.billkolebooks.com/post/a-flurr... #guns #gunviolence #booksky

I’m sorry, but we have too. many. goddamned guns. 😡 www.wpri.com/news/local-n...

Just over 3 weeks to go until our special event- The Nexus Between Faith & Firearms: A talk with @billkole.bsky.social Don't miss out on what promises to be an engaging and thought provoking event!

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

@billkole.bsky.social investigates the dangerous coalition of white evangelicals and supporters for unrestricted access to firearms, and reflects on why evangelicals have embraced gun ownership. Check out "Why God and Guns Don't Mix" from our February issue. therevealer.org/why-guns-and...

A rare school shooting in Canada, and even rarer, one where a woman is the suspected shooter. apnews.com/article/cana...

Canada’s Broadview magazine interviewed me about my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, and the peril of mixing faith and firearms. #guns #gunviolence #booksky broadview.org/william-kole...

✍🏼 I wrote this op-ed for @therevealer.bsky.social , the magazine of New York University's Center for Religion & Media, about white evangelicals' disturbing fusion of faith and firearms. therevealer.org/why-guns-and... #guns #gunviolence #religion #evangelicals #booksky

Our 1st issue of 2026 is here! Featuring articles on combatting Christian nationalism, guns & white evangelicals, migrant labor in Saudi Arabia, India & Israel's relationship, Andy Warhol's religious life, & more from @nberlat.bsky.social, @billkole.bsky.social, & others! therevealer.org

During fly fishing’s long, dreary offseason, most of us just want to get a good look at something — anything — with fins. The latest from my Substack, The Fly Guy 🎣 (subscribe for free!) billkole.substack.com/p/the-fish-t... #fishing #flyfishing #aquariums #humor

1st podcast episode of 2026! "Guns and White Evangelicals" Why do many white evangelicals believe they have a “God-given right” to own guns? @billkole.bsky.social, author of In Guns We Trust, discusses evangelicals’ fixation w/gun access & what we can do about it. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify

Girl with a pearl earring, but make it Paris.

RIP to this remarkable human, whom I included in my first book, THE BIG 100: The New World of Super-Aging. “I’m going to retire when I die,” she said in 2023, when she was ‘just’ 103. 💪🏼 #booksky #longevity

Think twice.

Rhode Island Atheists is happy to present this exciting new event featuring @billkole.bsky.social Currently working as a local author and as editor for Axios, Kole is an award-winning veteran journalist. He has reported from North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

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