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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 05/08/2026

So after two months of waiting and refreshing it arrived on in the Creighton system this morning. Here you go as promised. www.proquest.com/pqdtlocal100...

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 18/06/2026

Happy to share once the university publishes it!

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 18/06/2026

Thank you @andrewmarchand.bsky.social and @theathletic.com. He has been a he worst part of introducing people to soccer since he started showing up in tv. It’s dated, it’s out of place, and every day he speaks for American soccer we stray further from his Spin Doctor denim kit glory days.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 02/05/2026

Thank you! Also, thanks for an excellent course this past month and a half. What a treat! Hope you do more things like that.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 02/05/2026

Thank you so very much! You've given me so much confidence in just small chats that this was definitely worth all the time and effort.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 02/05/2026

@profsamperry.bsky.social Thank you Dr. Perry! I just saw on the ASA Conference program that you are on an invited panel with my committee member, Dr. Laura Dugan. Even more of a reason to grab a seat.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 21/04/2026

Thank you! It was a very busy weekend!!

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 21/04/2026

Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation “Every Knee Shall Bend: Leadership and Christian Nationalist Framing in Give Him 15.” Thank you to everyone who attended and supported me throughout this journey.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 18/04/2026

This version focuses on the religious and democratic implications of my dissertation project. Thank you to everyone who attended and all the committee members for selecting it for this award. I’m very proud of this work, and I look forward to sharing more about it after my Monday defense.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 18/04/2026

Delighted to announce that I have been awarded the Graduate Research Prize by the Midwest Region American Academy of Religion at the annual conference in Cincinnati. My presentation and paper was titled “An Appeal to Heaven: Spiritual Warfare Rhetoric, and Democratic Strain in Digital Ministry.“

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You don’t get to add “but” to this sentence.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 15/03/2026

Always a good time judging the OCLRE Ohio High School Mock Trial competition, but being able to participate in my first Championship Round judges panel was quite a treat. Congratulations to Archbishop Hoban and St. Xavier on advancing to the finals.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 09/03/2026

Another early morning flight CMH > STL > MSP.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 06/03/2026

I think about this @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social video about Psalm 109 at least once a day. It brings me so much joy. youtu.be/PySJfZ4QVGk?...

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Psalm 109 is the biggest hater

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 12/02/2026

I’m happy to share that I’ve was inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, the national Jesuit honor society, last week in Omaha. I’m grateful for the mentors, colleagues, and students who have shaped my work and made this recognition possible.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 18/11/2025

Makes total sense! I went from my adrenaline rush of online play to getting into those single player narrative games. Went through Fallout, Mass Effect, Farcry 5 & 6, and the Bioshock series within 2 years.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 18/11/2025

It took me until probably four years ago to play the series and it’s fantastic. As a former exclusive sports gamer I had an amazing catalog to catchup on. Have fun! It’s a blast.

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Section Chair @jlkucinskas.bsky.social joined a panel in the Netherlands on administrative ethics. The session examined the moral responsibility of civil servants in liberal democracies, 40 years after Dennis Thompson’s landmark PAR article. Organized by The Netherlands Institute of Governance.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 12/11/2025

As a former campaign comms person seeing this email makes me think “there but for the grace of God, go I”

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ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We met up with @sssreligion.bsky.social recently in Minneapolis, Minnesota to ask "What Are You Working On?" Meet emerging scholars and familiar faces working on all things religious scholarship!

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 06/11/2025

Collegeville, MN rules so hard y'all.

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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I think I just experienced the most engaging and theoretically impressive presidential address in my career from @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social at the annual meeting for the @sssreligion.bsky.social. Legit masterful. Wish y'all could have experienced it.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 28/10/2025

If anyone wants to say hello or grab a coffee (I'm always down for a coffee -- the caffeine it does nothing) send me a DM or connect with me on LinkedIn. I've been wanting to build a brainstorming and writing community to help develop co-authors and other thought partners in this field.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 28/10/2025

Also, special shout of to all those at the Networking Lunch especially those sitting at Table 8: Evangelicalism, Christian Nationalism, and Politics! I'll be there ready to learn and enjoy my final conference as a student participant.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 28/10/2025

Hello! I'm coming up from the dissertation bunker to say that if you will be at SSSR I'll be putting together some fun Bluesky content with @dacuetovilla.bsky.social for the @asareligion.bsky.social account. COME TELL US WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON. We'd love to amplify some voices.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

UVA's Sociology department is looking to hire a tenured sociologist of religion at the Associate or Full level. Here is the advertisement. @sssreligion.bsky.social @asareligion.bsky.social Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879

The Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position specializing in the sociology of religion. We are particularly interested in a theoretically engaged scholar whose work addresses religious pluralism in complex modern societies, the relationship between religion, civic engagement, and democratic political cultures, the social and economic impact of religion from a cultural and historical perspective. Relevant questions may include but are not limited to: how does religion shape cultural and political conflicts? How does religion relate not only to political participation but to the shaping of collectives? How do different understandings of the sacred inform the development of, and dispute over, morality?

For additional information about our dynamic department, please visit https://sociology.as.virginia.edu/. For questions regarding this position, please contact Isaac Reed, Search Chair, at iar2c@virginia.edu.

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 10/10/2025

The nice folks at @npr.org gave me a minute of their air to talk about Dilexi Te. Listen to: Pope Leo XIV is drawing the world's attention to poverty - one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5563...

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🔊 Listen Now: Pope Leo XIV is drawing the world's attention to poverty

All Things Considered on NPR One | 4:19

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 09/10/2025

So you can imagine my excitement to hear that he and Rev. Susan Hayward are launching American Unexceptionalism, a new series exploring how people of faith around the world resist religious nationalism and authoritarianism. It premieres October 23 and will be must listen as well!

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American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism

Listen to American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism on RedCircle

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 09/10/2025

When I was planning my dissertation he took time to talk through ideas and share his insight, which meant a lot. His podcast Charismatic Revival Fury was a must listen on my trips to and from Omaha over the past few years.

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Episode 1: January 6th and the New Apostolic Reformation

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 09/10/2025

Many of you know how much @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social’s work shaped my research on spiritual warfare. His book The Violent Take It By Force is essential reading.

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The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy

The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 09/10/2025

Pope Leo has given us his first teaching document today. It gives no comfort to the Napa Institute, billionaires, or anybody who wants a powerful or integralist church. This below is the takeaway. We go on in Francis's direction. share.google/jLb2vAGT1c57...

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 09/10/2025

I signup for these emails so you don’t have to.

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Every Knee Shall Bend @eksb.org · 09/10/2025

Intercessors for America’s “Propaganda Report” warns believers to spot manipulation—then models it. A civics lesson turns into spiritual warfare, complete with demons, distrust, and a link to partisan media. Read @andrewmackey.com’s newest here:

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Faith, Fear, and the Free Gift of Propaganda

Intercessors for America’s “Propaganda Special Report” repackages media literacy as a weapon of spiritual warfare and political distrust.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 03/10/2025

These guys are part of an highly-financed spiritual oligarchy designed to dump cash into their exclusionary and ultra-capitalist view of them Church. Always disappointing to see them near anything. Gross.

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"The White House has taken an action that is sweeping in its rhetoric yet almost certainly empty of formal legal effect." Such great work on #antifa by Thomas Brzozowski, shedding light on a critically important (and thorny) question for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-...

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 02/10/2025

The IT folks at war.gov don’t appear to have gotten the message around “Warrior Ethos” and enemies from within with this tame language.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 02/10/2025

Head over to HHS.gov for this pop-up and banner.

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Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com · 02/10/2025

Live look at the header of state.gov

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