Bill Kole
@billkole.bsky.social
Veteran journalist and author of two big-idea books: IN GUNS WE TRUST (out now via Broadleaf) and THE BIG 100 (2023, Diversion). Runner, sailor, fly fisherman. billkolebooks.com https://substack.com/@billkole
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Bill Kole
@billkole.bsky.social
· Oct 23
IN GUNS WE TRUST is out now, wherever you buy your books!
Get your copy now of what @momsdemand.bsky.social founder @shannonrwatts.bsky.social calls "an essential read." #booksky #guns #gunculture
Get your copy now of what @momsdemand.bsky.social founder @shannonrwatts.bsky.social calls "an essential read." #booksky #guns #gunculture
Of all the solid reviews IN GUNS WE TRUST has gotten, this one is perhaps the most gratifying.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was an editor at @christiancentury.bsky.social, and it was the first to publish his "Letters from a Birmingham Jail." #booksky
www.christiancentury.org/books/lethal...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was an editor at @christiancentury.bsky.social, and it was the first to publish his "Letters from a Birmingham Jail." #booksky
www.christiancentury.org/books/lethal...
A lethal article of faith
Veteran journalist William Kole sets out to understand White evangelical devotion to the Second...
www.christiancentury.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Of all the solid reviews IN GUNS WE TRUST has gotten, this one is perhaps the most gratifying.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was an editor at @christiancentury.bsky.social, and it was the first to publish his "Letters from a Birmingham Jail." #booksky
www.christiancentury.org/books/lethal...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was an editor at @christiancentury.bsky.social, and it was the first to publish his "Letters from a Birmingham Jail." #booksky
www.christiancentury.org/books/lethal...
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Do you want to live to 100 and beyond? Author @billkole.bsky.social says: you may whether you like it or not. On this week's podcast: the pros and cons of the coming centenarian boom, aka "Super #Aging." LISTEN TO THE #PODCAST HERE: open.spotify.com/episode/0hvw...
@diversionbooks.bsky.social
@diversionbooks.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Do you want to live to 100 and beyond? Author @billkole.bsky.social says: you may whether you like it or not. On this week's podcast: the pros and cons of the coming centenarian boom, aka "Super #Aging." LISTEN TO THE #PODCAST HERE: open.spotify.com/episode/0hvw...
@diversionbooks.bsky.social
@diversionbooks.bsky.social
This may be the most fun I've ever had on a podcast.
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare had me on to talk about my first book, THE BIG 100, and how society will change as many more of us live into triple digits.
open.spotify.com/episode/0hvw...?
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare had me on to talk about my first book, THE BIG 100, and how society will change as many more of us live into triple digits.
open.spotify.com/episode/0hvw...?
Living to 100 and Beyond - Super Aging with Author William J. Kole
open.spotify.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This may be the most fun I've ever had on a podcast.
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare had me on to talk about my first book, THE BIG 100, and how society will change as many more of us live into triple digits.
open.spotify.com/episode/0hvw...?
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare had me on to talk about my first book, THE BIG 100, and how society will change as many more of us live into triple digits.
open.spotify.com/episode/0hvw...?
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Fear has become the water we’re swimming in.
On @shiftingculture.bsky.social, I talk with journalist @billkole.bsky.social about guns in churches, fear-based faith, and how the way of Jesus, rooted in nonviolence, got replaced by power and protection.
Listen: pod.link/1566243892
On @shiftingculture.bsky.social, I talk with journalist @billkole.bsky.social about guns in churches, fear-based faith, and how the way of Jesus, rooted in nonviolence, got replaced by power and protection.
Listen: pod.link/1566243892
December 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Fear has become the water we’re swimming in.
On @shiftingculture.bsky.social, I talk with journalist @billkole.bsky.social about guns in churches, fear-based faith, and how the way of Jesus, rooted in nonviolence, got replaced by power and protection.
Listen: pod.link/1566243892
On @shiftingculture.bsky.social, I talk with journalist @billkole.bsky.social about guns in churches, fear-based faith, and how the way of Jesus, rooted in nonviolence, got replaced by power and protection.
Listen: pod.link/1566243892
Great to see IN GUNS WE TRUST get traction in academia! (It’s a natural text for any university-level ethics or religion courses …)
More on this important new @broadleafbooks.bsky.social title here: www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
#guns #gunculture #booksky
More on this important new @broadleafbooks.bsky.social title here: www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
#guns #gunculture #booksky
December 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Great to see IN GUNS WE TRUST get traction in academia! (It’s a natural text for any university-level ethics or religion courses …)
More on this important new @broadleafbooks.bsky.social title here: www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
#guns #gunculture #booksky
More on this important new @broadleafbooks.bsky.social title here: www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...
#guns #gunculture #booksky
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I just finished #reading this #book: #InGunsWeTrust by #WilliamJKole.
This was a wonderful book. I've read a few books on this subject & this is one of the best ones. It can be depressing but it also offers some hope. Everybody should read this @billkole.bsky.social book
#Booksky #ReadingIsDelicious
This was a wonderful book. I've read a few books on this subject & this is one of the best ones. It can be depressing but it also offers some hope. Everybody should read this @billkole.bsky.social book
#Booksky #ReadingIsDelicious
December 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I just finished #reading this #book: #InGunsWeTrust by #WilliamJKole.
This was a wonderful book. I've read a few books on this subject & this is one of the best ones. It can be depressing but it also offers some hope. Everybody should read this @billkole.bsky.social book
#Booksky #ReadingIsDelicious
This was a wonderful book. I've read a few books on this subject & this is one of the best ones. It can be depressing but it also offers some hope. Everybody should read this @billkole.bsky.social book
#Booksky #ReadingIsDelicious
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“Is anyone here carrying a gun?”
In @bmj.com I reflect on America’s relationship with guns, and why the leading cause of death for ages 1–17 is missing from MAHA’s child health plan. Whose freedom is being protected?
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Thanks to
@billkole.bsky.social @nelbamg.bsky.social
In @bmj.com I reflect on America’s relationship with guns, and why the leading cause of death for ages 1–17 is missing from MAHA’s child health plan. Whose freedom is being protected?
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Thanks to
@billkole.bsky.social @nelbamg.bsky.social
US gun violence is a preventable health crisis
America feels familiar to a British person—until it doesn’t. Lucinda Hiam writes from the US, observing that nothing has felt more foreign than living in a country where the threat of gun violence is ...
www.bmj.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“Is anyone here carrying a gun?”
In @bmj.com I reflect on America’s relationship with guns, and why the leading cause of death for ages 1–17 is missing from MAHA’s child health plan. Whose freedom is being protected?
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Thanks to
@billkole.bsky.social @nelbamg.bsky.social
In @bmj.com I reflect on America’s relationship with guns, and why the leading cause of death for ages 1–17 is missing from MAHA’s child health plan. Whose freedom is being protected?
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Thanks to
@billkole.bsky.social @nelbamg.bsky.social
Hope they're bitin' up there, brother. billkole.substack.com/p/cast-adrift
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Hope they're bitin' up there, brother. billkole.substack.com/p/cast-adrift
My heart is full after this evening's spirited discussion about America's gun scourge at Boston's Grace Community Church.
To the woman traumatized by gun violence who told me she had to retreat to the back of the room and lie down: I see you. I hear you. We're fighting this fight for you. 💙
To the woman traumatized by gun violence who told me she had to retreat to the back of the room and lie down: I see you. I hear you. We're fighting this fight for you. 💙
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
My heart is full after this evening's spirited discussion about America's gun scourge at Boston's Grace Community Church.
To the woman traumatized by gun violence who told me she had to retreat to the back of the room and lie down: I see you. I hear you. We're fighting this fight for you. 💙
To the woman traumatized by gun violence who told me she had to retreat to the back of the room and lie down: I see you. I hear you. We're fighting this fight for you. 💙
Greater Boston peeps: Join us this coming Sunday! It’s gonna be 🔥
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Greater Boston peeps: Join us this coming Sunday! It’s gonna be 🔥
My latest book, spotted in the wild at @barnesandnoble.com in Santa Fe by the great journalist (and longtime pal) Ian Stewart ☺️
#guns #gunviolence #booksky @broadleafbooks.bsky.social
#guns #gunviolence #booksky @broadleafbooks.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My latest book, spotted in the wild at @barnesandnoble.com in Santa Fe by the great journalist (and longtime pal) Ian Stewart ☺️
#guns #gunviolence #booksky @broadleafbooks.bsky.social
#guns #gunviolence #booksky @broadleafbooks.bsky.social
Not my usual stomping grounds!
But I’ll be happy to rep my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, at the joint annual conference of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature in Boston later this month.
If you’ll be there, hit me up!
But I’ll be happy to rep my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, at the joint annual conference of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature in Boston later this month.
If you’ll be there, hit me up!
November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Not my usual stomping grounds!
But I’ll be happy to rep my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, at the joint annual conference of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature in Boston later this month.
If you’ll be there, hit me up!
But I’ll be happy to rep my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, at the joint annual conference of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature in Boston later this month.
If you’ll be there, hit me up!
Reviews of IN GUNS WE TRUST are trickling in on Amazon, and I’m so grateful. We need more! If you’ve read or are reading, please take a moment to post a brief review. It’ll make this important book more visible.
#booksky
#booksky
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Reviews of IN GUNS WE TRUST are trickling in on Amazon, and I’m so grateful. We need more! If you’ve read or are reading, please take a moment to post a brief review. It’ll make this important book more visible.
#booksky
#booksky
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Friends, a plea for help! If you've read or are reading IN GUNS WE TRUST, please please please drop a brief review on the Amazon page for the book.
It will help the algorithm recommend this important book to other readers.
Thanks so much! #booksky #guns #gunculture
www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...
It will help the algorithm recommend this important book to other readers.
Thanks so much! #booksky #guns #gunculture
www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...
In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms
In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms [Kole, William J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms
www.amazon.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Friends, a plea for help! If you've read or are reading IN GUNS WE TRUST, please please please drop a brief review on the Amazon page for the book.
It will help the algorithm recommend this important book to other readers.
Thanks so much! #booksky #guns #gunculture
www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...
It will help the algorithm recommend this important book to other readers.
Thanks so much! #booksky #guns #gunculture
www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...
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Kipruto gets it by 2 tenths of a second. 😳
this men's nyc marathon finish is !!!!
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Kipruto gets it by 2 tenths of a second. 😳
Even though some fly fishers have the social proclivities of the Unabomber, there are times when it makes sense for tiers of feathers to flock together. Enter the rod club.
(My latest from The Fly Guy 🎣. Click to subscribe -- it's free!)
open.substack.com/pub/billkole... #flyfishing #flytying
(My latest from The Fly Guy 🎣. Click to subscribe -- it's free!)
open.substack.com/pub/billkole... #flyfishing #flytying
The Rod Club
Hot tips, local lore, camaraderie, and the heady aroma of pipe tobacco — these are a few of my favorite things.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Even though some fly fishers have the social proclivities of the Unabomber, there are times when it makes sense for tiers of feathers to flock together. Enter the rod club.
(My latest from The Fly Guy 🎣. Click to subscribe -- it's free!)
open.substack.com/pub/billkole... #flyfishing #flytying
(My latest from The Fly Guy 🎣. Click to subscribe -- it's free!)
open.substack.com/pub/billkole... #flyfishing #flytying
Friends, a plea for help! If you've read or are reading IN GUNS WE TRUST, please please please drop a brief review on the Amazon page for the book.
It will help the algorithm recommend this important book to other readers.
Thanks so much! #booksky #guns #gunculture
www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...
It will help the algorithm recommend this important book to other readers.
Thanks so much! #booksky #guns #gunculture
www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...
In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms
In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms [Kole, William J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms
www.amazon.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Friends, a plea for help! If you've read or are reading IN GUNS WE TRUST, please please please drop a brief review on the Amazon page for the book.
It will help the algorithm recommend this important book to other readers.
Thanks so much! #booksky #guns #gunculture
www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...
It will help the algorithm recommend this important book to other readers.
Thanks so much! #booksky #guns #gunculture
www.amazon.com/Guns-We-Trus...
IN GUNS WE TRUST is out now, wherever you buy your books!
Get your copy now of what @momsdemand.bsky.social founder @shannonrwatts.bsky.social calls "an essential read." #booksky #guns #gunculture
Get your copy now of what @momsdemand.bsky.social founder @shannonrwatts.bsky.social calls "an essential read." #booksky #guns #gunculture
October 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
IN GUNS WE TRUST is out now, wherever you buy your books!
Get your copy now of what @momsdemand.bsky.social founder @shannonrwatts.bsky.social calls "an essential read." #booksky #guns #gunculture
Get your copy now of what @momsdemand.bsky.social founder @shannonrwatts.bsky.social calls "an essential read." #booksky #guns #gunculture
I had an amazing conversation with NYT bestselling author Frank Schaeffer about IN GUNS WE TRUST in this YouTube Live chat.
Give it a watch/listen! #booksky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x2...
Give it a watch/listen! #booksky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x2...
William J. Kole: In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer
YouTube video by Frank Schaeffer
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October 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I had an amazing conversation with NYT bestselling author Frank Schaeffer about IN GUNS WE TRUST in this YouTube Live chat.
Give it a watch/listen! #booksky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x2...
Give it a watch/listen! #booksky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x2...
My appearance this morning on @wbztv.bsky.social’s Keller @ Large to talk about IN GUNS WE TRUST.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/video...
www.cbsnews.com/boston/video...
"In Guns We Trust" author on why white evangelicals rely so heavily on firearms
Author Bill Kole talks to WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller about his new book, "In Guns We Trust."
www.cbsnews.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My appearance this morning on @wbztv.bsky.social’s Keller @ Large to talk about IN GUNS WE TRUST.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/video...
www.cbsnews.com/boston/video...
