"losing the decades-old tax breaks could hinder its ability to maintain its headquarters in Richmond and carry out its operations." ah well, isn't that kind of the tradition? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
Okay but what if instead of seeing the doctor so often this last year Trump has actually been having visions of Jesus and didn’t realize it?
Cover of Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 13, 2026 Light blue and dark blue color block background.
Cristina M. Gagliano & @jstuart.bsky.social introduce Mormon Studies Review Vol. 13 as new editors after co-editing Vol. 12 with Quincy D. Newell & @benjaminepark.bsky.social.
Vol. 13 Intro: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...
New editors blog www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/ne...
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that claiming the Pope is “WEAK on crime” is simultaneously the funniest but also most revealing statement for assessing religion in the MAGA movement. It’s modern Christian nationalism in one sentence.
I received one of my favorite compliments from a student today. When complaining about the reading load in the course, he said, “if it were any other professor, I would have dropped this class by now!”
The incredible team at @inquirer.com continues to be all over this story. The revised approach the administration proposes here is very typical in recent years, qualifying statements about Washington’s enslaving by pointing to his statements in opposition to it. (Gift link) share.inquirer.com/tkvteN
Best. Unboxing. Ever. “Hey, a book,” he says. #ThePublicScholar from @hopkinspress.bsky.social coming this month.
Order yours today! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
I think about this column once a week, and lately once every few hours.
Yeah, the church's investment portfolio includes corporations like Lockheed Martin. Which is certainly troubling. But to single them out is a bit of the "Church is Part of the Deep State" conspiracy.
As the world continues to crumble, historians keep churning out first rate scholarship.
Today I finished @csschmitt.bsky.social’s The Predatoy Sea, which will make you rethink entirely slavery and captivity in the 17th century Caribbean. A masterclass of scholarship.
It was an ugly win that will get polished over by UM fans by the years to come until it is remembered as an unblemished triumph.
As all championships should be!
*revising lecture notes*
Photograph of an aged Theodore Parker.
Sketch of Parker preaching in New York City.
I’m happy to share that at 114,016 words, 355 pages, and 578 footnotes, I have a full manuscript on Theodore Parker & the religious war on slavery. I aim to show how Parker’s popular, unorthodox, & controversial ministry reveals the populist groundswell that brought the Civil War.
It’s a bruising battle so far!
New Podcast from former YSAR member Melissa Borja, produced by Brad Onishi!
One Million Neighbors looks at “how American faith communities mobilized to do the impossible: resettling more than a million Southeast Asian refugees, in the face of widespread hostility”
redcircle.com/shows/1525dd...
Oh hey, in case any of you like to geek out about Mormon history, I’m doing a live chat tonight at 7pm MT over at my YouTube channel about the climactic decades of the 1970s and 1980s. It should be fun. www.youtube.com/live/XaPjm15...
AI and a newish radiologist said the growth in my breast was benign. It was v small, circumscribed. A 2nd radiologist with decades of experience said, “it looks fine but I still don’t like it. Get a biopsy.” It was triple neg breast cancer. We need more experts. radiologybusiness.com/topics/artif...
New Quinnipiac Poll shows that the AI ascension is far from assured. People have (rightly) come to see that it poses far more negatives than previously assumed.
Keep pushing back on the AI takeover. The techbros arguing that it's inevitable are in the minority.
For those interested in such things, here's a link to my latest newsletter. It includes links to a lot of my recent videos and activities, as well as some announcements and updates. Subscribe if you're interested in such nerdiness. benjaminpark.kit.com/posts/3-29-26
MARCH MADNESS GOOD
BEATING DUKE EVEN BETTER
Cam Boozer is such a great college player. Very few flaws.
…and yet I still don’t see how he’s anywhere near the NBA prospect as Dybantsa.
But maybe not totally insurmountable!
CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao
It's incredible how 20-point comebacks are common in the NBA, but seem so insurmountable in college.
List of book tour dates in support of my book, Thy Will Be Done. Visit johngmarks.com for full details.
Just over a week until publication day and the book tour in support of THY WILL BE DONE is up over 15 dates! Come see me this spring/summer or invite me to come speak near you!
Please read my essay in the new Journal of American History about how abolitionists used runaway slave ads to ridicule slavery. #slaveryarchive
I'd vote for a College Sports commissioner who pledges to move up the start times for every game.
It's out in the world! The first journal article actually based on my dissertation research and not just some wild hare I decided to chase into print. Thanks especially to @jstuart.bsky.social and Cristina Gagliano for making it happen.
