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Jared Stacy

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PhD, Uni of Aberdeen // Theology + Ethics // Digital Infostructure // Democracy + Extremism // American evangelicalism • Chaplain Upcoming Book📕”Reality In Ruins” w/ HarperOne jaredstacy.substack.com

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Chris Lilley 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Love to see it! Spotted @jaredstacy.bsky.social's *Reality in Ruins* out in the wild today at the @barnesandnoble.com in the @mallofamerica.bsky.social #realityinruins
A close-up of a bookshelf featuring the outward-facing cover of the book "Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis" by Jared Stacy, PhD, which displays large, distressed orange lettering over a black-and-white profile of a man. It is flanked by the spines of several other books regarding religion and faith, such as "Defying Jihad," "The Case for God," and "Why I Am Not an Atheist."
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
$2.99 - that’s the sale price for the Kindle version of my book, “Reality In Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became An American Evangelical Crisis” Leave a Goodreads review, it helps pass the word!
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Dave Lester @davelester80.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW EPISODE: it has been awhile and we were honored to chat with @jaredstacy.bsky.social on the @vcwpod.bsky.social about his new book Reality in Ruins about Evangelicalism and conspiracy theories. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
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131: Reality in Ruins with Jared Stacy
Podcast Episode · Veterans of Culture Wars · June 30 · 1h 24m
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Margaret Orr Hoeflich, PhD @climatewithmargs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
@jaredstacy.bsky.social ok so I’m obsessed with these paragraphs
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The scholarship on autocracy/fascisms give clear recognition to the way(s) Trump’s $1.7 billion dollar settlement (with his own DOJ!) could be used towards creating/influencing “fifth columns” or loose, private paramilitary action. This isn’t just about past reparation, but organizing future action.
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Cult Podcasts @cultpodcasts.com · 17/05/2026
"How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis | Jared Stacy, PhD" Preacher Boys Podcast @theericski.bsky.social @preacherboyspod.bsky.social @jaredstacy.bsky.social 17 May 2026 [1:01:34] #Cult s.cultpodcasts.com/X3_oPzdfsU6qPvS6…
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How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis | Jared Stacy, PhD
Purchase a copy of Jared's book here: https://amzn.to/4dpX9Lp Want to listen on Audible? Get a free Premium Plus trial here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/mlp As an Amazon associate, a small portion of every purchase made through this link helps support this podcast! ✖️✖️✖️ Conspiracy theories are at the root of the most pressing political problems of our time, yet their influence cuts just as personal. Suspicion has fractured families, communities, churches, and our very social fabric, as one person’s fact is another’s fake news. In Reality in Ruins, Dr. Jared Stacy braves the untold history of conspiracism in American evangelicalism and the anxiety at the heart of this radioactive movement that affects us all. In a new age of what he calls “Disreality,” many are left reeling in the ruins of what was once a common world, now splintered by warring ideologies, religious and political extremism, and cults of certainty. Dr. Stacy reports from the inside as someone raised and even ordained in one of the nation’s most conservative denominations. Now, as a historian and post-evangelical theologian, Dr. Stacy traces the currents of pain, panic, and power that have thrust the evangelical church into a theological crisis with consequence for everyone. ✖️✖️✖️ Support the Show: Patreon.com/PreacherBoys ✖️✖️✖️ If you or someone you know has experienced abuse, visit courage365.org/need-help ✖️✖️✖️ CONNECT WITH THE SHOW: preacherboyspodcast.com https://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoys https://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/ https://twitter.com/preacherboysdoc https://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspod https://www.tiktok.com/@preacherboyspod To connect with a community that shares the Preacher Boys Podcast's mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/ ✖️✖️✖️ The content presented in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. All individuals and entities discussed are presumed innocent until proven guilty through due legal process. The views and opinions expressed are those of the speakers. ✖️✖️✖️ Music by Lou Ridley — “Bible Belt” | Used with permission under license.
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Niamh @niamhatheologian.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I have been thinking about this article by @jaredstacy.bsky.social the last week www.christianitytoday.com/2024/07/dutc...
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An Alternative to the Bonhoeffer Option - Christianity Today
Christians today can learn from WWII-era theologian K.H. Miskotte about resisting without resorting to political violence.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
In this piece, I wrestle with “bare piety” as a covert sympathizer with authoritarian elements
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On Scripture in Public
America 250 and White Christian Nationalism
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Honored to have this engagement with Reality in Ruins from @amarpeterman.bsky.social for the Christian Century.
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What’s the connection between evangelicalism and conspiracy theories?
According to Jared Stacy, it’s fundamentally about language and story—and it goes back to Colonial...
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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It’s here! It’s finally here! @jaredstacy.bsky.social
Reality in Ruins by Jared Stacy
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“Christians are to follow the logic of reconciliation…they are not to assimilate into a Christianity that accommodates itself to the present time.” Hans Ulrich
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
My book “Reality In Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis” is available now, wherever books are sold!
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I owe a massive debt to the Aberdeen community. This is a book forged from that very special culture.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If you're interested in some of the personal backstory that led to my book, "Reality In Ruins" - here is a great profile from the Times-Picayune in New Orleans
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'New Orleans wrecked me': How a young pastor’s time in Louisiana reshaped his faith
“New Orleans wrecked me in the best way possible.” Jared Stacy arrived in Louisiana as a young evangelical pastor certain of what he believed. His years in New Orleans — including a moment outside LS...
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
If your local bookstore price matches, my book is at its lowest price yet—releasing March 17
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Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis
Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis [Stacy PhD, Jared] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Friends, “Reality In Ruins” makes its way into the world next week. Thank you to everyone who has preordered and shared so far; I can’t wait to share the whole of these words with you.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis” is the #1 New Release in Religion & Sociology—preorder link below.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Cover and first page.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A really concise interview with Publisher’s Weekly that captures the heart of my book…
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Evangelicalism in an Age of Conspiracy: PW Talks with Jared Stacy
In Reality in Ruins, the post-evangelical theologian and former preacher traces how paranoia and threats to power—stretching from the Roman Empire to the 2020 presidential election—have distorted evan...
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Conspiracy theory is a caricatured, reductionist way to analyze and narrate power exercised in the material world. Rejecting conspiracy theory does not mean denying the complex, the veiled, or the existence of evil itself.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If conspiracy theory is a storytelling act, then Trump’s “Big Lie” is not consigned to the past. It remains a window into an ongoing story not just about America, but also about good and evil and—for evangelicals—about God.
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The Myths of January 6
Plus, Livestream Tonight
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The first major review of my book “Reality in Ruins” dropped this week
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Really grateful for this endorsement of my book Reality In Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis, from @iamfujimura.bsky.social
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
For friends at #AARSBL I’ll be delivering a paper on late fascism and evangelical rhetorics of freedom at the Evangelical Studies Unit this morning in Boston—via video. Hope to make it in person next year!
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Disreality is not pathological. It is more existential. Less a clinical condition marked by a departure from facts, more an eruption of epistemological anxiety in which new facts are created or realities constructed towards the production of an unstable certainty
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Toward Reality in a Time of MAGA “Disreality”
Doing Theology Against Conspiracy Theories
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Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"The strange #history." Today's forthcoming-book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @jaredstacy.bsky.social & @harperonebooks.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The (obvious) analysis: these directives give more plausibility to scenarios where free US elections are suspended or subverted in the name of "national security" In 3 years, will an American public too familiar with the military in our streets be able to recognize that scenario for what it is?
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Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Deliver us from our Christianity
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God Does Not Need Saving
Resisting MAGA Christianity with Karl Barth
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The point of disinformation in an authoritarian moment isn't to convince people of alternative facts as much as it is to sow mistrust in every source of information or truth outside of "the leader"
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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Next week! It’s not too late to register. Manitobans: note the free lunch on the Oct 23 option 👀
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“It is disturbing…that a ‘faith movement’ can acquire character and weight simply by the use of violence in the manner of the political mass-meeting and the political demonstration for propaganda purposes” Karl Barth, 1933
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I keep saying it: conspiracy theory is mainstream. We aren’t dealing with one narrative here or there, we’re living through a default on “reality” — with terrible consequences. Here is some advice:
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Fascist theater: staged provocation in the political that codes/targets undesirables. It provides content for propaganda to normalize the previously unthinkable.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I mostly avoid reposting propaganda. But if I do, it’s to name it as antichrist. This is the power to crucify and it belongs to hell. Churches that bless it are Babylonian shrines. Do not confuse the power to crucify with the power of the Crucified One, who is peace.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Our elected leaders in the US executive branch are not departing from reality as much as they are creating one— a totality where their word is absolute and dissent is subversion.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Proofs are here. Feeling the weight of this book; what it stands for—naming the authoritarian nexus of falsehood & violence at work in white evangelicalism— and what it hopes in—truth for a common world.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
On the Kirk memorial from the intersection of brutality and disreality…
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Everyone Marveled And Followed The Beast
Devoured By America First
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The last week has only pressed me deeper into the message that led to this book—we are dealing not just with a war of facts, but the apocalypse (unveiling) of primal stories, of myths and their corruption. Here’s how we got here, and a way forward… Preorder + share here:
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Reality in Ruins
For anyone who has ever said, “It feels like we’re living in different realities,” an unforgettable read and definitive explainer of the strange history of ...
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A lot of talk about “authoritarianism” — and I’m here for it. But we need specificity: the contagion of authoritarian movements today spreads by a vision of capitalism without democracy.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
When I was doing my PhD research on January 6, I began to feel the weight of documenting words and preserving actions that might one day be erased, revised, or mythologized. I felt that weight all over again today reading how the DOJ is erasing studies on right wing political violence.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The Department of Justice has erased a study from its website; the study from the National Institute of Justice found far-right political violence & extremism outpaced all other ideological violence.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
In the US, an information diet of conservative algorithms likely means rage at the nameless “left” has been nursed in no small part by Russian troll farms.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“The one who is beyond creation enters creation in order to change it, not to abandon it. Jesus broke the laws of this sinful age not by simple negation but by offering a new life to creatures in the middle of the lives they are already living. …
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The authoritarian playbook is being run with precision across the United States. Much of our reliance on media obscures this pattern by reporting each play on its own without attention to the whole.
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Aberdeen Divinity @abdndivinity.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
As Prof. Brock's new book has appeared recently, join him as he discusses things with @jaredstacy.bsky.social. Click through for more! jaredstacy.substack.com/p/living-as-...
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Living As Creatures
A Conversation with Brian Brock
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Mercy on the children in Minnesota today. I believe their generation will grow up to condemn ours; we who collectively enable the terror and tyranny of gun violence in the name of “freedom”
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My book on conspiracism in American evangelicalism has a title, cover and release date. More info at the link.
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Reality In Ruins: Book Title and Cover Reveal
Discover Jared Stacy’s new book, Reality in Ruins. Read the official announcement and see the cover reveal today.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
January 6 continues to be an apocalypse: unveiling the militant violence raging in the heart of MAGA that worships a rogue word, a paranoid Christ split between kingdom & country.
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Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
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Jared Stacy @jaredstacy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
ICE is recruiting new agents by offering up to $60K in student loan forgiveness—a reminder that loan forgiveness by itself isn’t the issue, it’s who gets to wield it as a partisan weapon.
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