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Nicholas Shrum

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American Religions PhD candidate at UVA | UVA Mormon Studies podcast "Scholars & Saints" host | cat dad | bagpiper

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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
With the Pauls visiting the DoD and a friend pointing out that Friberg's painting is in the background of this photo, I figured it was worth bumping this piece I wrote on Friberg and the Washington Praying at Valley Forge painting. theutahmonthly.substack.com/p/americas-2....
Pete Hegseth and the Pauls in a Department of Defense office of some sort.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just in time for my Wednesday class on nineteenth-century Mormon pioneering, migration, and persecution.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New episode!
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uvamormonstudies.bsky.social @uvamormonstudies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Learn about our new affiliate program, Chair Laurie Maffly-Kipp's latest book, our upcoming lecture on temples by historian Jonathan Stapley, and more in our newly released Fall 2026 newsletter: mailchi.mp/b7cb7a6bb9c6...
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And here I was thinking I had pulled a fast one on my “Mormonism and American Culture” students.
Map showing that my dialect is definitely from the intermountain west
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Microsoft Office is down and, unrelatedly, have had a productive day thus far.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New episode out with Jennifer Champoux! Loved this book.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Just finished writing a historiography section for a dissertation chapter on the idea of a "Judeo-Christian" tradition in the 40s/50s. Dan does a good job discussing how the term is essentially a right-wing dogwhistle for white Christian nationalists and authoritarians in the United States today.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Doing my best to charge through this dissertation chapter on post-World War II white American religious nationalism along with its extreme manifestations in the Christianity Identity movement. Researching and writing about it then is painful when it is still so evidently alive today.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The last time England beat France this bad in America, taxes went wild.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Enjoyed this conversation!
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When my Civ VI game gets really interesting
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Still processing the testimony that I heard in church yesterday that William Bradford was a "Ephraimite" and so when he met Samosest, (from "Manasseh"), they were "two long lost brothers" whose long-awaited reunion set off a chain of divinely inspired events leading to the founding of the USA.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2026
Everyone should be extremely concerned that birthright citizenship was 5-4 and not unanimous.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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The Office - Michael Scott's 'No! God! Please! No!'
ALT: The Office - Michael Scott's 'No! God! Please! No!'
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEUER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Flower of Scotland is undefeated
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Disappointing but not surprising. Good scholarship on the the construction, racialization, and limits of religious freedom includes: @mccraryc.bsky.social’ *Sincerely Held: Secularism and its Believers* and @tisawenger.bsky.social’s *Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal.*
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
So excited for the inevitable Trump staffer memoir that reveals they were the one to point out to Trump that he didn’t know how to spell “dumb.”
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Quick kitty stretch between matches
Maisy does a nice kitty stretch in between World Cup matches
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
DR CONGO!!!!!!
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The world….. is healing?
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Joseph Stuart @jstuart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What an incredible constellation of books to review! African American religion has never been stronger.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
What a performance by Cape Verde
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Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought @dialoguejournal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Summer 2026 Issue is out! And in this episode of *Dialogue Out Loud*, co-editor Margaret Olsen Hemming is joined by Dialogue’s section editors for a guided tour of this fantastic issue. www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/slu... www.dialoguejournal.com/issues/summe...
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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
My new book has arrived!
A book showing its cover which has a cross coming out of the water. The title is "A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change from the End of a World" and the author is Susannah CrockfordThe title page of the same book, A Perturbed System
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Margo Monday
Margo the Cat
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
New Scholars & Saints episode!
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Pleasure writing with @benjaminepark.bsky.social about Latter-day Saint approaches to religious freedom and American patriotism in light of the upcoming LDS Church fast for religious freedom on July 5th. Check out the piece here:
theconversation.com
For 2 centuries, Latter-day Saints have revered religious freedom – but their definition is evolving
Latter-day Saints have long valued the US Constitution’s promise of religious freedom – but the church has also tested its boundaries.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Don't care who wins, but "I'm loving the game, two great teams battling it out." -Creed Bratton probably.
Game 7 Western Conference Finals
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It was fun being interviewed by @npr.org. The most interesting thing I take away from all of this is how Friberg’s Mormonism has been completely scrubbed by the Museum of the Bible and the foundation that loaned it the painting.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Salt Lake Tribune: Johnson has argued that separation of church and state is “misunderstood,” and that “the founders wanted to protect the church from an encroaching state, not the other way around.” Is that why there is an establishment clause, Mike? And what "church" are you referring to?
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Trump administration pushes narrative of Christian founding at rally
The day-long prayer event featured speakers from President Trump’s cabinet and a program that drew connections between the nation’s founding and Christianity.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I recently learned that Smith’s papers are at the University of Michigan. It was wild researching Albert Cleage’s Black Christian nationalism at the same archive that holds so much of the material of Smith’s white Christian nationalism.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Check out this event that happened last month!
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Can't get this out of my head. Amazing.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Cat
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Loved this conversation about this excellent and important book with @nancyross.bsky.social and Jessica Finnigan!
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
First Detroit Tigers game!
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Getting familiar with the Albert Cleage papers today in Ann Arbor!
Sign for Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Excited and honored to be one of the graduate students that will present at this session of the conference!
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Happy May the Fourth from BD-1
BD-1 droid and Cal Kestis lightsaber
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Daily Mormon @dailymormon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Your daily #Mormon image.
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I forgot that in Utah, people think the carpool lane is the fast lane.
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Alliance for a Better Utah @betterutah.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Bottom of the Class: Utah House of Representatives! To no one’s surprise, Trevor Lee (R- Layton) and Nicholeen Peck (R- Tooele) take the cake for House Reps with worst scores of the 2026 session.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/04/2026
This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/04/2026
Texas redistricts without a vote, Republicans cheer. Dems in Virginia respond by putting it UP FOR A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, it passes, Republican cry foul. Oh well. Good job Virginia!!
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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I'm excited that my paper proposal for #AAR was accepted! My paper will be part of the "Visions for the Field: An Intergenerational Fireside Chat on New Directions in African American Religious History" hosted by the Afro-American Religious History Unit.
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