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.

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

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“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.

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

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

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

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“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.

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"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.

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

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

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