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Historian & nerd. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark

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I think it’s sweet that A’ja Wilson lets her boyfriend work outside the home

11.03.2026 02:13 👍 513 🔁 99 💬 8 📌 3

83 points on 43 FGA and 43 FTA has to be the most ludicrous stat line in NBA history.

11.03.2026 02:18 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If you were to ask me to guess what NBA player would score 83 points in a game this season, I would have probably said 75 players before I got to Bam Adebayo.

11.03.2026 02:12 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Basketball players, notably, move very fast and must maintain balance.

Brent Yormark: let’s make the Big12 play on top of an iPad

#GoCougs

10.03.2026 23:33 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Complaint while watching BYU’s opening game in the Big12 tournament:

Why the hell are they experimenting with a brand new LED floor surface at the most important time of the year?!?!?!

10.03.2026 23:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

...and SGA is like, nah, I got this.

My gawd, what a game.

Basketball is good.

10.03.2026 02:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

...though Jokic would still like a word.

10.03.2026 02:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Give SGA his back-to-back MVP. Dude is incredible when he's not hunting fouls.

10.03.2026 02:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Congrats to @samirakmehta.bsky.social for her new book! I’m really excited to dig in. @uncpress.bsky.social

10.03.2026 00:32 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.

08.03.2026 20:54 👍 999 🔁 307 💬 17 📌 3

I’ve reached the age where my knee punishes me for an entire weekend because I…*checks notes*…tried to stand up from my car.

07.03.2026 17:40 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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The Shady Cop Who Haunts Halloweentown A porn-texting police chief, a mayor posting through it all and the Oregon town that can’t let go of the 2024 election.

This story contains a porn-texting police chief, a money-hungry police union, a nasty mayor’s race, a man in a Waldo costume and the phrase “pig pig pig” — your weekend read from @thewesternedge.bsky.social / me and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social

www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-shady-...

06.03.2026 20:26 👍 106 🔁 41 💬 2 📌 2
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How Latino Culture Is Transforming Mormonism Most people imagine Mormonism as a predominantly white American religion—but that picture is incomplete. Across the United States and throughout the Americas, Latino converts have become one of the…

Sujey Vega, author of "Mormon Barrio," recently joined @benjaminepark.bsky.social to discuss the growing Latino presence in Mormonism.

Discover how Latino converts, often from Catholic roots, are reshaping LDS culture, with strong community ties and responses to social issues.

06.03.2026 21:49 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The natural culmination of America's New Thought tradition is the US president determining other nations' sovereignty solely with his mind.

06.03.2026 19:19 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
How Latino Culture Is Transforming Mormonism
How Latino Culture Is Transforming Mormonism YouTube video by Benjamin Park, Historian

Congrats to Sujey Vega and @nyupress.bsky.social for their phenomenal new book on Latino Mormonism. I interviewed Dr. Vega about it and the significance of Spanish-speaking LDS congregations. youtu.be/pVDg8Al_K9c?...

06.03.2026 19:17 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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But does Noem get to keep all her cosplay costumes?

05.03.2026 19:48 👍 656 🔁 97 💬 45 📌 11

Has someone already made the joke about Trump firing Noem like a dog? Yes? Everyone has? Okay, I’ll hold off.

05.03.2026 19:27 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Into the Stacks: Article Relaunch: Jack-in-the-Box Faith Welcome to Cambridge Core

I'm honored to have contributed to a roundtable in @modamhist.bsky.social reflecting on Jon Butler's 2004 article, “Jack-in-the-Box Faith: The Religion Problem in Modern American History." Thanks to Darren Dochuk for the invitation to join a great group of scholars.

05.03.2026 19:05 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I’m also curious if Mullen is expected to perpetuate other forms of DHS relations with Corey Lewandowski.

05.03.2026 19:24 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We received such fantastic questions from the audience! Here’s the link to my conversation with @benjaminepark.bsky.social from last night.

05.03.2026 16:28 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Yup, the whole thing is available now at the same link.

05.03.2026 04:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Rise of Mormon Extremism: A LIVE Discussion with Benjamin Park and Leah Sottile YouTube video by Benjamin Park, Historian

Here's the YouTube link. We'll be going live at 9pm ET, 7pm MT. www.youtube.com/live/pzWyl2q...

05.03.2026 01:23 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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Folks: a reminder that tonight I'm hosting a LIVE discussion with @leahsottile.bsky.social. We'll dig into the varieties of Mormon extremism in the recent decades--you know, all the groups that have been the focus of so many HULU, HBO, and Netflix documentaries. It should be fun. (In a morbid way.)

05.03.2026 01:23 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I’m also Team Scrivener.

04.03.2026 14:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Rise of Mormon Extremism: A LIVE Discussion with Benjamin Park and Leah Sottile YouTube video by Benjamin Park, Historian

I’ll be doing my first-ever livestream on YouTube tomorrow March 4 at 7 pm MT with @benjaminepark.bsky.social , author of American Zion. We’ll be talking all about extremism in church history, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, the Bundys, etc. Join us!
www.youtube.com/live/pzWyl2q...

04.03.2026 05:52 👍 36 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2

Swingy for Texas, I guess. But the general election won't be much of a contest.

04.03.2026 02:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think it's too early to say that. I'd still wager that Paxton pulls it out tonight--the remaining votes will swing his way--but Cornyn might be favored in a run-off.

04.03.2026 02:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I can’t believe I live in a state that might conclude both John Cornyn and Dan Crenshaw are “too woke.”

04.03.2026 02:13 👍 60 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 1
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I grew weary with the infighting so pervasive in primaries, but am stoked to support either Crockett or Talarico in the senate election.

And also terrified that Texas Republicans have devolved to a point where they’re gonna nominate Paxton.

03.03.2026 20:22 👍 39 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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I need @lollardfish.bsky.social to explain to me how Naz Reid is a real person. Dude is unfair.

01.03.2026 22:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0