Overview

For anyone who has ever said, ""It feels like we're living in different realities,"" an unforgettable read and definitive explainer of the strange history of evangelical conspiracy theory. 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. 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.

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""Reality in Ruins identifies our blind spots, whether the reader is a conservative or liberal, or dispossessed and numb...We need a guidebook and map toward future thriving--Jared provides exactly that in this illuminating book."" -- ""Makoto Fujimura, author of Art Is"" ""As Christian nationalism continues to dominate our existence, Jared shows us how to be claimed by the truth instead of always trying to wield a twisted version of it. Only then can we begin to tell a better story, one marked by love and liberation."" -- "" Andrew Whitehead, award-winning author of American Idolatry"" ""The historical story he has to tell is one that every American who identifies as an evangelical should know. But what is truly groundbreaking is the fearless gospel he offers his readers as a theological alternative."" -- ""Dr. Brian Brock, professor of theology, University of Aberdeen""

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Jared Stacy is a theologian and ethicist and former pastor to evangelical churches in New Orleans and the Washington, DC, metro area. He received a PhD in moral & practical theology from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His research focuses on the intersection of theology and politics. Specifically on ethics, extremism/conspiracy theory and US evangelicalism. Jared's work and his story have been featured on platforms like Time, NPR, NBC News, the BBC, and Christianity Today. Jared Stacy is a theologian and ethicist and former pastor to evangelical churches in New Orleans and the Washington, DC, metro area. He received a PhD in moral & practical theology from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His research focuses on the intersection of theology and politics. Specifically on ethics, extremism/conspiracy theory and US evangelicalism. Jared's work and his story have been featured on platforms like Time, NPR, NBC News, the BBC, and Christianity Today.

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