Jared Stacy
@jaredstacy.bsky.social
PhD, Uni of Aberdeen // Theology + Ethics // Digital Infostructure // Democracy + Extremism // American evangelicalism • Chaplain Upcoming Book📕”Reality In Ruins” w/ HarperOne jaredstacy.substack.com
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...
131: Reality in Ruins with Jared Stacy
Podcast Episode · Veterans of Culture Wars · June 30 · 1h 24m
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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.
"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 https://s.cultpodcasts.com/X3_oPzdfsU6qPvS6zp7GlA
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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I have been thinking about this article by @jaredstacy.bsky.social the last week www.christianitytoday.com/2024/07/dutc...
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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In this piece, I wrestle with “bare piety” as a covert sympathizer with authoritarian elements
On Scripture in Public
America 250 and White Christian Nationalism
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Honored to have this engagement with Reality in Ruins from @amarpeterman.bsky.social for the Christian Century.
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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“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
My book “Reality In Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis” is available now, wherever books are sold!
I owe a massive debt to the Aberdeen community. This is a book forged from that very special culture.
Ryan Turnbull@ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe must-read book of 2026 has finally arrived at my home! @jaredstacy.bsky.social
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
'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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If your local bookstore price matches, my book is at its lowest price yet—releasing March 17
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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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.
“Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis” is the #1 New Release in Religion & Sociology—preorder link below.
A really concise interview with Publisher’s Weekly that captures the heart of my book…
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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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.
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.
The Myths of January 6
Plus, Livestream Tonight
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The first major review of my book “Reality in Ruins” dropped this week
Really grateful for this endorsement of my book Reality In Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis, from @iamfujimura.bsky.social
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!
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
Toward Reality in a Time of MAGA “Disreality”
Doing Theology Against Conspiracy Theories
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"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
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?
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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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"
Next week! It’s not too late to register. Manitobans: note the free lunch on the Oct 23 option 👀
Daniel Rempel@drempel.bsky.social · 12mo agoManitobans: join me Oct 22 in Winnipeg or Oct 23 in Otterburne for my public lecture “Lives Worth Living: What Disability Can Teach Us About Life & Death.” Zoom is available for the Oct 23 lecture, and the lecture will be uploaded after. Register at the link below: my.prov.ca/forms/semina...
“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
