My new book has a title, cover, and release date. 

Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis will hit book shelves on March 17, 2026.

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Distilled from my PhD research, Reality in Ruins brings together—for the first time—an untold history of conspiratorial beliefs in and across white American evangelicalism. 

Here’s a preview from my publisher, HarperOne: 

For concerned citizens, Christians who are sounding the alarm on Christian Nationalism, and anyone grieving the relationships paranoia has ruptured, Reality in Ruins profiles the problem, validates your pain, prepares you for good resistance, and empowers you to become the truth-tellers a common world deserves.

Many of you know this crisis of fact and faith personally; you’ve lived it. 

That’s why I chose this title. Reality in Ruins names that insidious combination of pain, power, and panic that converges in this moment of what I call “Disreality.”

Disreality isn’t just marked by a departure from material facts; it is a state of existence where “new” facts are created out of thin air. These “facts” limit the sort of questions that are treated as legitimate, and create their own totality. But Disreality doesn’t have the final word. 

By looking back on how evangelicalism became an agent of Disreality, I believe we can find our footing again. Not to win arguments, but to live as truth-tellers, to see people as human beings, to tell a better story. Hope is possible, even in the ruins.

Thank you to both new and longtime readers who have endured the slow drip of content that has leaked out from this process.

More to come in the weeks ahead: preorder deals, giveaways, launch team, and more.

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