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Benjamin Park

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Benjamin Park

@BenjaminEPark

Author or editor of five books, including AMERICAN ZION and KINGDOM OF NAUVOO. This account is no longer active—find me where the sky is blue.

Conroe, TX

Joined April 2010

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Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Jan 16, 2024
Modern Mormonism is the product of 200 years of culture wars, societal conflicts that took place within both the faith and the nation that shaped it. My new book, #AmericanZion (@LiverightPub/@wwnorton), published today, tells the origins & growth of America's homegrown religion.
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Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Nov 7, 2018
I swear Florida could be voting between ice cream and a kick to the head and the results would be 50.5%-49.5%.
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Aug 3, 2019
Just in case anyone, as they read details about the shooter’s fear of the “Hispanic invasion of Texas,” wonders how this rhetoric is becoming so pervasive, here’s our senator just six weeks ago.
Senator John Cornyn
@JohnCornyn
Jun 22, 2019
Texas gained almost nine Hispanic residents for every additional white resident last year texastribune.org/2019/06/20/tex… via @TexasTribune
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Dec 13, 2017
Not the first time African Americans in Alabama lead the nation’s resistance movement.
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Jul 16, 2020
Holy hell this captures it.
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Jul 10, 2020
Anyone who claims academia brainwashes everyone into herd mentality has never attended a faculty meeting or read a department email thread.
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Sep 27, 2018
The tragic irony is the *same* senators who in 1992 didn’t believe Anita Hill because she seemed too “angry” and “vindictive” are gonna claim Kavanaugh is persuasive due to his “passion.” Like, literally the *same* senators. #KavanaughHearings
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Jul 7, 2020
My immediate reaction to the Harper's letter was remembering all those studies about how privileged voices always overestimate the extent to which marginalized voices dominate any particular conversation.
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Oct 14, 2020
A lot of originalists are gonna be shocked when they find out that, when the Constitution was ratified, a majority of Americans wouldn’t have considered Catholicism the type of religion protected by the First Amendment.
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Apr 22, 2019
For the record: my wife and I labored, sacrificed, and saved to pay off some pretty crippling student debt. And we’d be the first in line to support loan forgiveness programs for others. Because civilized citizenship does not require pettiness.
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Feb 22, 2020
2 things can be true at once: 1) Bernie is an increasingly strong frontrunner and Dems should start preparing to consolidate around him, likely after Super Tuesday 2) Due to early voting, these results don’t reflect Warren’s surge, so we should still wait till Super Tuesday
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Oct 2, 2020
My whole life has been upended over the last 8 months as I take nearly every necessary precaution and these people ARE ACTING LIKE EVERYTHING'S NORMAL
southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
Oct 2, 2020
Video of the ACB announcement event on Saturday at the WH featuring Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who has now tested positive for Covid-19. via @bubbaprog
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Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Feb 16, 2020
The speaker in church is claiming our youth spend far more time reading “the TV guide” than the Book of Mormon and honestly, I don’t understand why the church is struggling to reach the younger generations.
Benjamin Park
@BenjaminEPark
Mar 31, 2019
I had a mentor who told me that whenever I felt my dissertation was horrible to walk into the department library, grab a random dissertation off the shelf, flip through it, realize it’s mostly terrible, and comfort yourself by saying the standard for completion was laughably low.