Kristen Cesario Irving
@krisirving.bsky.social
Strategist, filmmaker, advocate. Director of @truebelieverfilm.
I had just left the stage where I was singing on worship team. This female elder approached me and told me that as I worshiped, my “midriff” was exposed and I, “was causing married men in the church to stumble, to lust after me.” I was 15. I was a child. Let’s see you at 15! #iwas15
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I had just left the stage where I was singing on worship team. This female elder approached me and told me that as I worshiped, my “midriff” was exposed and I, “was causing married men in the church to stumble, to lust after me.” I was 15. I was a child. Let’s see you at 15! #iwas15
Republicans refusing millions of living Americans affordable healthcare unless the unborn have more rights is peak late-stage evangelicalism. Pro-BIRTH is not pro-life.
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Republicans refusing millions of living Americans affordable healthcare unless the unborn have more rights is peak late-stage evangelicalism. Pro-BIRTH is not pro-life.
"I need a community of people that know how vulnerable we are to violence so they teach us to love instead of hate and they teach us to forgive instead of get revenge. And of course you see where it leads you as soon as you realize that we actually need a countermovement."
Part 2: The Religion We Inherited with Brian McLaren
On a humid summer night in 2017, our film crew arrived in Hot Springs, NC for the Wild Goose Festival.
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October 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"I need a community of people that know how vulnerable we are to violence so they teach us to love instead of hate and they teach us to forgive instead of get revenge. And of course you see where it leads you as soon as you realize that we actually need a countermovement."
“When people write about the religious right and look ahead to the next election or look back at a previous election and think in two or four year cycles, they're really missing the boat. These people want to bring about the application of God's law to civil society.” @julieingersoll.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“When people write about the religious right and look ahead to the next election or look back at a previous election and think in two or four year cycles, they're really missing the boat. These people want to bring about the application of God's law to civil society.” @julieingersoll.bsky.social
“Doe 174.” Donald Trump’s identification number in unsealed Epstein documents is “Doe 174.”
July 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“Doe 174.” Donald Trump’s identification number in unsealed Epstein documents is “Doe 174.”
The Religious Right's Complicated Relationship with the IRS
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Kent Cooper on The Community Table
I've seen True Believer--twice. It took the documentaries of Bad Faith and God and Country and personalized them. I'm now reading Tamice Spencer-Helms book Faith Unleavened: The Wilderness Between ...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Religious Right's Complicated Relationship with the IRS
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My latest for Substack, check it out! kristenirvingcesario.substack.com/p/the-religi...
July 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
My latest for Substack, check it out! kristenirvingcesario.substack.com/p/the-religi...
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this is a segregationist administration and it is wild to me that there is any resistance to this straightforward observation
It’s like telling a cancer institute to stop spending so much on cancer research.
Here are a few of the many cuts.
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Here are a few of the many cuts.
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June 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
this is a segregationist administration and it is wild to me that there is any resistance to this straightforward observation
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The sermons preached tomorrow in evangelical churches are going to be straight up Book of Revelation apocalyptic ecstasy.
June 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The sermons preached tomorrow in evangelical churches are going to be straight up Book of Revelation apocalyptic ecstasy.
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This is a quote from an interview of @krisirving.bsky.social who wrote and produced the 2024 documentary “True Believers” and she is correct. And Bishop Michael Pham did just that? And it worked! ICE agents are a bunch of emotionally immature men. Get creative.
June 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is a quote from an interview of @krisirving.bsky.social who wrote and produced the 2024 documentary “True Believers” and she is correct. And Bishop Michael Pham did just that? And it worked! ICE agents are a bunch of emotionally immature men. Get creative.
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Just had the opportunity to see a screener of @krisirving.bsky.social ‘s documentary True Believer, and I recommend you check it out if you get the chance. It traces the rise of the evangelical white Christian nationalist movement in a concise, gripping manner.
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June 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Just had the opportunity to see a screener of @krisirving.bsky.social ‘s documentary True Believer, and I recommend you check it out if you get the chance. It traces the rise of the evangelical white Christian nationalist movement in a concise, gripping manner.
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* TRUMP SAYS WILL SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO HAVE ATTORNEY GENERAL BONDI LEAD A TASK FORCE TO ERADICATE ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS
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February 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
* TRUMP SAYS WILL SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO HAVE ATTORNEY GENERAL BONDI LEAD A TASK FORCE TO ERADICATE ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS
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My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/kristeni...
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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A poem for reflection, 01/20/24: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes. poets.org/poem/let-ame...
January 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A poem for reflection, 01/20/24: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes. poets.org/poem/let-ame...