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Jacob S. Rugh @jakerugh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1,080 new Utah voters registered Democratic *just last week* 2026 YTD (thru Oct 05) 🔵 DEM +12,504 (+5.0%) 🔴 REP -8,109 (-0.9%) 🟣 UNA +17,335 (+3.5%) 2026 is the first year on record in Utah where DEMS have outregistered REPS (never happened going back 12 years)

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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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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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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 · 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 · 18/06/2026

Usually used in reference to environmental stewardship (when used best) and/or dominion ideas about human power over the Earth (when not used best).

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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 Crockford

The title page of the same book, A Perturbed System

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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Maybe the best match of the WC so far.

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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.

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Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Also, I'm geeking out at being mentioned in the same piece as @tomtweed.bsky.social!

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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 · 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 · 06/05/2026

Though my allergies can't take this switching between climates.

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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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