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Writing

My first book, God's Warriors: College Football and the Making of 20th-Century American Religion, is under contract and in review with the University of Illinois's Sport and Society series.

"Football Power Was Always Part of the Plan for Liberty University," TIME, December 28, 2023.

Salvation on the Gridiron: Fundamentalism, Football, and Christian Manhood at Wheaton College, 1900-1949,The International Journal of the History of Sport, May 3, 2022.

"Losing Our Religion: Texas’s College Football Identity Crisis," Texas Monthly, August 17, 2021.

"Why Baylor Will Never Be Notre Dame: Ecclesiastical Polity And College Football," Anxious Bench, August 4, 2021.

"LaVell Edwards: The Mormon Father Of Modern Football," Anxious Bench, February 10, 2021.

“Saints Embrace Savagery: BYU Football and the Making of Modern Mormonism” The History of American College Football, edited by Christian Anderson and Amber Fallucca, 2021.

"God and the Gridiron Game," with Paul Putz, Christianity Today, September 2017.

 

"Religion is Truly Manly’: Endicott Peabody, Muscular Christianity, and Reform in Tombstone, Arizona,” The Journal of Arizona History, Summer 2016.

2015 "'It's not sissie to be a Christian'": Playing Indian, Sports, Evangelicalism at Kanakuk Kamps," Religion and American History, August 5, 2015.

"Exercise and American Culture,Sport in American History, January 8, 2015.

I have been quoted in SlateReligion News Service, and Deseret News. I have also appeared on podcasts with KSL Sports

 

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