Release day!

Plus: A free online event today at noon and some ways you can help make 'Untrustworthy' a success

It’s here! Untrustworthy is officially published.

Thanks for sticking with me through the research, writing, editing, and marketing phases of this project. I sincerely appreciate it, and I can’t wait for you to read Untrustworthy and tell me what you think.

❯❯ As you read, reply here with questions for the subscriber book club ❮❮

If you haven’t picked up a copy already, you can buy it at Baker Book House, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Christianbook, Books-A-Million, Hearts & Minds, or your favorite local bookstore.

Join me for today’s event at noon

I’m marking release day with a live Q&A about Untrustworthy at 12 p.m. Eastern with author Grace Olmstead. I’ve read and admired her work—at The Week, in her own book, at her Substack, and elsewhere—for the better part of a decade, and we've corresponded by email, but I believe this will be the first time we've actually spoken, which is to say: I’m really looking forward to it and hope you’ll come.

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Here are a few other ways you can help make Untrustworthy a success:

• write a quick review on Amazon, GoodReads, etc., because books with more reviews are more likely to be recommended to other readers by the curséd algorithm

• share a picture of you and your copy on social media (and tag me! I am, alas, on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook). The hashtag is the very ironic #UntrustworthyBook

• ask your local library to buy a copy—this is usually a very easy process, and it makes the book available to many more readers

Upcoming events

Beyond today’s Q&A with Grace Olmstead, I have four other upcoming events:

• an American Values Coalition webinar on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 8 p.m.

• a Trinity Forum online conversation on Friday, Oct. 21 at 1:30 p.m. (this will also be recorded)

• a live event at John Brown University in Arkansas on Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. (this will also be live-streamed)

• a live event in Chicago on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 5:30 p.m.

Articles, podcasts, and reviews

Last but not least, I’ve got a lot of drafts in various stages of edits right now, but I’ve also been a talking head more than a writer lately. Here’s some of my recent output, plus a couple new articles about Untrustworthy:

• Political empathy takes work | Christianity Today

• What the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago warrant does—and doesn’t—mean | Reason

• The Long Game (podcast)

• Digital Public Square Podcast

• Libertarian Christians (podcast)

• The Habit Podcast

• A new book aims to help us heal our ‘screen-broken brains’ | Jon Ward, Yahoo News

• Unbreaking our brains | Joel Mathis

• If we can’t reason together, how can we worship together? | Robert Tracy McKenzie, Christianity Today

Best,
Bonnie