Events

Join me for an exclusive pre-launch book talk at my hometown indie bookstore, Flyleaf Books! I'll be signing books ahead of the talk at 5:30,  then in conversation with my friend, Durham religion scholar, storyteller and comedian Andrew Ali Aghapour at 6pm. Priority seating will be given to those who purchase A God-Shaped Nation ahead…

Join us in the Parlor at the storied Salmagundi Club, an artist's club housed in one of New York City's oldest mansions (5th Ave. @ 12th Street) for a reading from A God-Shaped Nation, featuring special New York City guests. Books will be available for purchase and signing from McNally Jackson Books starting at 6pm;…

Join me Friday, June 26th, at 6pm, for a conversation about A God-Shaped Nation c0-hosted by the fine folks at the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, at The Hidden Barn Books in beautiful downtown Bar Harbor. Suitable both for grizzled locals, summer people, and folks who just wandered off a cruise ship. Please register with…

Read A God-Shaped Nation this summer with me and the fun folks at The Religion Department! You can join this online Guided Reading anytime. We have live sessions every other Wednesdays from 3-4pm from July 1st through September 9th. Discussions will be recorded and transcribed for asynchronous access. In each session, we will talk one…

The Twin Cities own literary provocateur Steph Opitz runs this monthly series at Heathers in Minneapolis. Buy a copy of A God-Shaped Nation for signing and come enjoy dinner and drinks with me, the author.

Friday, September 18th, at the First Baptist Church in America, please join myself, Peter Manseau, Andrew Aghapour, co-editors of The Under Gods Project for a lively discussion hosted by Christopher Cantwell on why religion belongs in public history and how we can respond to our own political moment through historical storytelling. This is the plenary session…