Jared Stacy

Really looking forward to being in Canada next month!

We talk a lot about the power of conspiracism in the political, but not enough about the pain it causes in the personal. These are intimately related.

UK friends 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I’m joining BBC Sunday Morning tomorrow at 9 am for a panel discussion on Gaza, the American death penalty, and the power of story—hope you can tune in!

The Conspiracists has been out for six months, and I keep coming back to the question at the center of it: what do conspiracy communities give people beyond the beliefs themselves? Certainty, purpose, identity, and belonging. January 6 was one outcome of that world, but it was never the whole story🧵

If you read “Reality In Ruins” give it a rate or review—it really helps get this message into more hands! ⬇️

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

$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!

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...

@jaredstacy.bsky.social ok so I’m obsessed with these paragraphs

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

I have been thinking about this article by @jaredstacy.bsky.social the last week www.christianitytoday.com/2024/07/dutc...

In this piece, I wrestle with “bare piety” as a covert sympathizer with authoritarian elements

Honored to have this engagement with Reality in Ruins from @amarpeterman.bsky.social for the Christian Century.

It’s here! It’s finally here! @jaredstacy.bsky.social

I owe a massive debt to the Aberdeen community. This is a book forged from that very special culture.

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

If your local bookstore price matches, my book is at its lowest price yet—releasing March 17

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.

Cover and first page.

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 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

"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?

Deliver us from our Christianity

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 👀

“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

Fascist theater: staged provocation in the political that codes/targets undesirables. It provides content for propaganda to normalize the previously unthinkable.

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.