Hank Willenbrink
@hwillenbrink.bsky.social
Performance scholar & Theatre artist, author of Performing for the Don, continuing the investigation at performingforthedon.substack.com
Couldn't help but close out 2025 with a look back at what I listened to. I made a list for ya!
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Albums for 2025
You can take the guy out of the blog but you can't take the blogger out of the guy
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December 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Couldn't help but close out 2025 with a look back at what I listened to. I made a list for ya!
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Ecumenica 18.2 just published! It is a special issue titled "Religion and the Right," and is the first issue from the new editor Hank Willenbrink (@hwillenbrink.bsky.social). It has lots of great articles and interesting interviews!
Volume 18 Issue 2 | Ecumenica | Scholarly Publishing Collective
Ecumenica | 18 | 2 | November 2025
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December 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ecumenica 18.2 just published! It is a special issue titled "Religion and the Right," and is the first issue from the new editor Hank Willenbrink (@hwillenbrink.bsky.social). It has lots of great articles and interesting interviews!
Ecumenica 18.2 is here with a special Issue on Religion & the Right. Featuring an essay from Rebecca Jackson and contributions from Damon Berry, Ambre Dromgoole, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, @cgrobe.bsky.social, Joy Palacios, and Shannon Steen. We are published by @psupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ecumenica 18.2 is here with a special Issue on Religion & the Right. Featuring an essay from Rebecca Jackson and contributions from Damon Berry, Ambre Dromgoole, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, @cgrobe.bsky.social, Joy Palacios, and Shannon Steen. We are published by @psupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky
It’s hard to believe that the only time we get to hear about Christian nationalism in the New York Times is a completely naive take on what’s keeping a global right wing populist movement together. #SubstackSky #RossDouthat open.substack.com/pub/performi...
Ross Douthat is a Dum Dum
The Right is Defining Itself Against the Right.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It’s hard to believe that the only time we get to hear about Christian nationalism in the New York Times is a completely naive take on what’s keeping a global right wing populist movement together. #SubstackSky #RossDouthat open.substack.com/pub/performi...
Pam Bondi’s Senate Judiciary Committee appearance got criticized from the left when it became obvious that her remarks were largely scripted. Why do we care about the ruse of a script with so much else at stake? #AcademicSky #SubstackSky
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Who Cares if There's a Script?
A bit of cold comfort during the Trump era has been the idea that it’s all show and no substance.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Pam Bondi’s Senate Judiciary Committee appearance got criticized from the left when it became obvious that her remarks were largely scripted. Why do we care about the ruse of a script with so much else at stake? #AcademicSky #SubstackSky
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I think all the time about this interview I did a year ago, where @bartongellman.bsky.social from the Brennan Center told me that, in their authoritarian war games, it was faith leaders who prevented troops from firing on civilians
October 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I think all the time about this interview I did a year ago, where @bartongellman.bsky.social from the Brennan Center told me that, in their authoritarian war games, it was faith leaders who prevented troops from firing on civilians
Helping Venezuelans > Blowing Up Venezuelan boats
October 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Helping Venezuelans > Blowing Up Venezuelan boats
Performance scholars get on this! It's so ripe. #AcademicSky
Amazing reporting from @thedialmag.bsky.social.
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Amazing reporting from @thedialmag.bsky.social.
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What’s Going On at Beijing’s “Fake Offices”? — The Dial
Lavender Au reports on the rise of “pretend to work” offices.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Performance scholars get on this! It's so ripe. #AcademicSky
Amazing reporting from @thedialmag.bsky.social.
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Amazing reporting from @thedialmag.bsky.social.
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The meeting with military leaders and inane, offensive sombrero memes are part and parcel of the same thing: a politics of attention. #SubstackSky #AcademicSky
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Performing the Presidency
Grimacing Generals and Cringey Memes
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October 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The meeting with military leaders and inane, offensive sombrero memes are part and parcel of the same thing: a politics of attention. #SubstackSky #AcademicSky
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Carrot channeling @ringerfantasy.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Carrot channeling @ringerfantasy.bsky.social
Sending out a call for verifiable images related to Charlie Kirk's funeral. I'm interested in reading the event and most of the sources that I'm coming across are prioritizing the speakers as opposed to what was going on in the crowd. I'd love to see what's happening in there. #AcademicSky
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Sending out a call for verifiable images related to Charlie Kirk's funeral. I'm interested in reading the event and most of the sources that I'm coming across are prioritizing the speakers as opposed to what was going on in the crowd. I'd love to see what's happening in there. #AcademicSky
An important read from @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Fleeing Bukele — The Dial
Journalists in El Salvador are under heightened scrutiny. Many have been forced to leave.
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September 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
An important read from @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Just gonna leave this hear and highlight the subtitle "Paxton spox. does not specifically dispute allegations"
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Texas AG Ken Paxton dismisses report alleging 'sex scandal' with aspiring Christian influencer
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dismissed a Daily Mail report Monday alleging he had an affair with an aspiring Christian influencer
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September 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Just gonna leave this hear and highlight the subtitle "Paxton spox. does not specifically dispute allegations"
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On Charlie Kirk and Political Influence
Was Kirk a One of One or What's yet to Come?
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September 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Performative masculinity seems to be having more than one moment at the same time. #AcademicSky #SubstackSky
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Performative Boys II Men
What Do Totes and D(oW)bags Have in Common?
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September 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Performative masculinity seems to be having more than one moment at the same time. #AcademicSky #SubstackSky
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Oh good, we can't fund university research, but Peter Thiel can do academic cosplay. #AcademicSky
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Palantir CEO Peter Thiel to lead 4-part series on the Antichrist
A California nonprofit is set to host an off-the-record lecture series featuring billionaire investor Peter Thiel on the biblical figure of the Antichrist
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August 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Oh good, we can't fund university research, but Peter Thiel can do academic cosplay. #AcademicSky
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Part 2 of an ongoing series regarding J6 and its aftermath from the perspective of performance, narrative, and justice #AcademicSky #SubstackSky
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Performance and January 6, 2021
Part 2 of Ongoing Research into J6 and its Aftermath
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August 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Part 2 of an ongoing series regarding J6 and its aftermath from the perspective of performance, narrative, and justice #AcademicSky #SubstackSky
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“The owner of this property directs Ibsen.”
August 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“The owner of this property directs Ibsen.”
Fun fact about James Dobson: he’s the one who wrote 2 Corinthians when Trump mispronounced it. So he was advising the president all the way back in 2015. #themoreyouknow #jamesdobson
August 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Fun fact about James Dobson: he’s the one who wrote 2 Corinthians when Trump mispronounced it. So he was advising the president all the way back in 2015. #themoreyouknow #jamesdobson
We Need to Talk about How Shitty it Feels Under Trump #Substacksky
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We Need to Talk about How Shitty it Feels Under Trump
Pro Gripe, Anti Compartmentalization
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August 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
We Need to Talk about How Shitty it Feels Under Trump #Substacksky
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Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
August 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
New Apostolic Reformation, animal style.
“The mother of four pointed out that many churches are “afraid” to talk about spiritual warfare and demons, but Christians must be equipped to handle the demonic and prepared to battle the forces of darkness.”
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“The mother of four pointed out that many churches are “afraid” to talk about spiritual warfare and demons, but Christians must be equipped to handle the demonic and prepared to battle the forces of darkness.”
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In-N-Out Burger owner Lynsi Snyder on spiritual warfare, desire to be 'plugged in' to God's plan
In an exclusive interview with The Christian Post, In-N-Out Burger owner and president Lynsi Snyder discusses her troubled past, spiritual warfare, and her desire to be plugged in to God s calling on
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August 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New Apostolic Reformation, animal style.
“The mother of four pointed out that many churches are “afraid” to talk about spiritual warfare and demons, but Christians must be equipped to handle the demonic and prepared to battle the forces of darkness.”
www.christianpost.com/news/in-n-ou...
“The mother of four pointed out that many churches are “afraid” to talk about spiritual warfare and demons, but Christians must be equipped to handle the demonic and prepared to battle the forces of darkness.”
www.christianpost.com/news/in-n-ou...
As a professor, I abhor Rate My Professor. This was cemented when I just saw that they rate schools by internet. INTERNET! It's a sad state of Rate My Professor and higher ed, when the question is what's your worth as a public utility. #AcademicSky
June 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As a professor, I abhor Rate My Professor. This was cemented when I just saw that they rate schools by internet. INTERNET! It's a sad state of Rate My Professor and higher ed, when the question is what's your worth as a public utility. #AcademicSky
Trump's use of "insurrection" in LA shows how much he's twisted the narrative of J6. #SubstackSky
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What's an Insurrection Anyway?
On LA and J6
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June 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Trump's use of "insurrection" in LA shows how much he's twisted the narrative of J6. #SubstackSky
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